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9780307269805 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 21, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughter’s brilliant and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather—Dee Wells, the glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A.
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9781403948502 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2010, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most popular and productive English novelists of the twentieth century.
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9780571138531 | Gardners Books, February 18, 2010, cover price $35.00
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9780826429797 | 1 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 7, 2009), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: In this volume, Dr Bounce (University of Cambridge) introduces Hobbes' ambitious philosophical project to discover the principles that govern the social world.
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9781597311007 | 2 edition (Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: C.
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9781593761257 | Counterpoint, October 28, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A personal account by the prestigious philosophy professor and author of On the Emotions describes his lonely youth in pre-World War II London, during which his impresario father and 'Gaiety Girl' mother interacted with such figures as Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, and Serge Lifar.
9781904130130 | Waywiser Pr, March 31, 2005, cover price $26.89 | About this edition: 'This is a book like no other.
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9781904130147 | Waywiser Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: 'This is a book like no other.
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9781845400071 | Imprint Academic, September 1, 2006, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Monograph study of the Idealist philosopher JOhn Grote
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9780826471314 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 30, 2005, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration.
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9780826480330 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 27, 2006, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Written in limpid prose, these autobiographical essays provide an insight into the mind and personality of Roger Scruton.
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9780745626154 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, April 7, 2006), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character.
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9780745626161 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, April 7, 2006), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character.
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9781402015021 | Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 2003, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This is the first modern biography to place Henry More’s (1614-1687) religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims.
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9780393324013 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the philosopher and novelist, from her student days at Oxford, through her marriage to John Bayley, to Murdoch's influence on literary England, from 1940 to the present day.
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9780783885643 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease.
9780756756413 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease.
9780312198640 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A moving memoir by the husband of the great contemporary writer Dame Iris Murdoch captures the ineffable mystery and fascination that she has exerted on both him and her readers and chronicles her recent sad struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
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9780312421113 | St Martins Pr Special, November 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author describes life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, and her struggle with Alzheimer's disease
9780312253820 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, November 1, 1999), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author describes life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, and her struggle with Alzheimer's disease
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9780736644723 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, July 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Recorded on 5 Audio Cassettes for 1.
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9780393048759 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This biography of the critically acclaimed philosopher and novelist traces her personal life and literary and philosophical career, from her student days at Oxford, through her marriage to John Bayley, to Murdoch's influence on literary England, from 1940 to the present day.
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9780521803977 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This collection of new essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy.
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9780521008686 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This collection of new essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy.
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9780837193410 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 1977), cover price $76.95 | About this edition: Philosopher and man of science, Whitehead is the man who went farthest on the road we all must travel.
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9781567921298 | David R Godine Pub, August 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Philosopher and man of science, Whitehead is the man who went farthest on the road we all must travel.
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9780715629550 | Duckbacks, May 1, 2001, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Mary Warnock reflects on her involvement in the philosophical world of Oxford during its heyday in the fifties and sixties and on her life as a major, yet controversial, player in British politics.
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9780754014249 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: The last few years of novelist and philosopher, Iris Murdoch's, life provides the framework for this portrayal by her husband of a remarkable woman.
9780786224739 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780393048568 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The husband of Iris Murdoch and author of Elegy for Iris, follows up his moving memoir of his wife's struggle with memory loss by recalling his own past, describing vivid scenes of his childhood in colonial India, his vacations on the English coast, his early love of literature, and his romance with Iris.
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9780393320794 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The husband of Iris Murdoch and author of Elegy for Iris, follows up his moving memoir of his wife's struggle with memory loss by recalling his own past, describing vivid scenes of his childhood in colonial India, his vacations on the English coast, his early love of literature, and his romance with Iris.
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Product Description: The statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lived a divided life. Was he a noble scholar, or a conniving political crook? Was he a homosexual? Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart draw upon previously untapped sources to create a controversial, nuanced portrait of the quintessential "Renaissance man," one whose achievements, while enormous, were nonetheless sadly circumscribed by his class and station...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780809055395 | Hill & Wang Pub, April 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780809055401 | Hill & Wang Pub, October 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lived a divided life.
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9780691059280 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: "This is a masterly book which brings together the two major Bacons--the politician and the philosopher.
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9780691009667 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 15, 1999, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world.
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9780805055207 | Metropolitan Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A biography of the Soviet-born British philosopher describes how he was shaped by politics and culture of his time, and his contributions to contemporary liberal philosophy
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9780805063004 | Owl Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A biography of the Soviet-born British philosopher describes how he was shaped by the politics and culture of his time, and his contributions to contemporary liberal philosophy
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9780375750366 | Modern Library, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author shares his personal discovery of philosophical questions and the great philosophers, while introducing the reader to the ideas of Russell, Kant, Nietzsche, and Popper
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9780375500282 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1998, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Looks at the author's discovery of philosophical questions and the great philosophers, showing how they influenced his life experiences
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9780300064414 | Yale Univ Pr, May 29, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Beyond his own country Francis Bacon is remembered as a great man, founder of modern science and philosophy, a just judge and a teacher of kings.
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Product Description: William Godwin-husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley, friend of Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and mentor of Wordsworth, Southey, and Shelley-has been recently recognized as an original moral and revolutionary thinker and a novelist of great skill, a man whose influence was far wider than is usually assumed...read more
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9780300031751 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1984, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: William Godwin-husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley, friend of Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and mentor of Wordsworth, Southey, and Shelley-has been recently recognized as an original moral and revolutionary thinker and a novelist of great skill, a man whose influence was far wider than is usually assumed.
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9780300105445 | Yale Univ Pr, July 11, 1984, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: William Godwin-husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley, friend of Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and mentor of Wordsworth, Southey, and Shelley-has been recently recognized as an original moral and revolutionary thinker and a novelist of great skill, a man whose influence was far wider than is usually assumed.
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9781852304782 | Element Books Ltd, March 1, 1994, cover price $30.00
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