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  • Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave

    Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries

    by Amber D. Carpenter, Pierre-Julien Harter ...
    Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave brings philosophers from two of the world's great philosophical traditions--Platonic and Indian Buddhist--into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, language, and ethics. An international team of scholars address selected questions of mutual concern to Buddhist and Platonist: How can knowledge of reality transform us? Will such ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy

    Edited by William Edelglass, Pierre-Julien Harter, Sara McClintock ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy is the first scholarly reference volume to highlight the diversity and individuality of a large number of the most influential philosophers to have contributed to the evolution of Buddhist thought in India. By placing the author at the center of inquiry, the volume highlights the often unrecognized innovation and multiplicity of India’s Buddhist ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing

    Assessing the Human

    Edited by Ingrid Voléry, Marie-Pierre Julien ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of view and demonstrates the central role of the measurement of the body for political purposes. By studying categorizations of race, ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Reasons and Lives in Buddhist Traditions

    Studies in Honor of Matthew Kapstein

    Edited by Dan Arnold, Pierre-Julien Harter, Cécile Ducher ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    The celebrated career of a venerated scholar inspires incisive new contributions to the field of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.Particularly known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Tibetan studies, Matthew Kapstein is a true polymath in Buddhist and Asian studies more generally; possessing unsurpassed knowledge of Tibetan culture and civilization, he is also deeply grounded in Sanskrit ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Anthropology of Family Food Practices

    Constraints, Adjustments, Innovations

    Edited by Marie-Pierre Julien, Nicoletta Diasio ...
    Series Book 14 - L’Europe alimentaire / European Food Issues / Europa alimentaria / L’Europa alimentare
    What are the factors that govern our food choices at the beginning of the 21st century? Obvious answers to this question would point to social and cultural habits, but the issue is far more complex than this. Changes in national and international economies, the end of political regimes, migration, but also micro-events such as retirement, the birth of a child, varying school times and seasons, or ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

    Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield ...
    The Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way : Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna; Jay L. Garfield ...
    For nearly two thousand years Buddhism has mystified and captivated both lay people and scholars alike. Seen alternately as a path to spiritual enlightenment, an system of ethical and moral rubrics, a cultural tradition, or simply a graceful philosophy of life, Buddhism has produced impassioned followers the world over. The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Au Contraire!

    Figuring Out the French

    by Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron ...
    "I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coachThe French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French?Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Meditations

    by René Descartes ...
    Translated by Desmond M. Clarke ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

    With Selections from the Objections and Replies

    by John Cottingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's bestselling 1996 edition, based on his translation in the acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It presents the complete text of Descartes's central metaphysical masterpiece ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Terry Pinkard, Michael Baur ...
    Series series Cambridge Hegel Translations
    Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and the social ... Read more

    $36.99 USD