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  • What Nietzsche Really Said

    A Reader’s Guide

    by Mazzino Montinari ...
    Translated by Peter J. Schwartz ...
    A LUCID, BALANCED INTRODUCTION TO NIETZSCHE’S LIFE AND THOUGHTTranslated into English for the first time, Mazzino Montinari’s classic introduction to Nietzsche is remarkable for its clarity, precision, and critical depth. What Nietzsche Really Said dismantles myths that have long distorted the philosopher’s legacy, from fascist appropriations to doctrinaire readings by self-styled Nietzscheans ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Baseball as a Road to God

    Seeing Beyond the Game

    by John Sexton, Thomas Oliphant, Peter J. Schwartz ...
    The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.Baseball as a Road to God is about touching ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Simple Forms

    Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke

    by André Jolles ...
    Translated by Peter J. Schwartz ...
    A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, saying, case, memorabile, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple forms” as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative. Published in German in 1929 and long recognized ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Baseball as a Road to God

    Seeing Beyond the Game

    by John Sexton, Thomas Oliphant, Peter J. Schwartz ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    A love letter to America’s most beloved sport and an exploration of the deeper dimensions it revealsFor more than a decade, New York University president John Sexton has used baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life in a wildly popular course at NYU. Using great works of baseball literature as well as the actual game’s fantastic moments, its legendary characters, and its routine ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Essential Reads on Family Offices

    by Globe Law and Business, Amelia Renkert-Thomas, Antoaneta Proctor, Asher Noor, Carl Sjöström, Carly E Doshi, Carolina Cintra, Caroline Underwood, Charlie Bain, Christian Stewart, David Werdiger, Dennis T Jaffe, Fabrizio Arengi Bentivoglio, Franklin J Parker, Guillermo Barandalla, Jeremy Cheng, Jessica McGawley, Kecia Barkawi, Maya Prabhu, Melissa Cowley Wolf, Michael S Schwartz, Nicola Saccardo, Peter Brock, Philip Marcovici, Philippe J Weil, Raimund Kamp, Rodolfo J Paiz Rodolfo Paiz, Roger King, Russell Cohen, Sue Nickason, Susan R Schoenfeld, Suzy Peterfriend, Tom McCullough, William J Kambas ...
    Essential Reads on Family Offices is your essential resource featuring insights from the world’s foremost experts on the most pressing topics facing family offices and their advisers today. Containing a collection of authoritative materials dedicated to providing family offices and their advisers with the most informative and thought-provoking contributions on key themes, the content focuses on: • ... Read more

    $130.49 USD

  • The Art of the Long View

    Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

    by Peter Schwartz ...
    What increasingly affects all of us, whether professional planners or individuals preparing for a better future, is not the tangibles of life—bottom-line numbers, for instance—but the intangibles: our hopes and fears, our beliefs and dreams. Only stories—scenarios—and our ability to visualize different kinds of futures adequately capture these intangibles.In The Art of the Long View, now with the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hitler - A Pictorial Biography

    by Peter Schwartz ...
    An extraordinary collection of contemporary photographs of Adolf Hitler. ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Return of the Primitive

    The Anti-Industrial Revolution

    by Peter Schwartz, Ayn Rand ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 10 min

    In the 1960s and early ’70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.While the New Left achieved limited political success, it brought about vast cultural changes that remain with us to this day. The reason is that while its representatives faced some ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Inevitable Surprises

    by Peter Schwartz ...
    The world we live in today is more volatile than ever. The security of free nations is threatened by rogue states, the global economy is in flux, and the rapid advance of technology forces constant reevaluation of our society. With so many powerful forces at work and seemingly unpredictable events occurring, to many the future seems dark, and its possibilities frightening.Peter Schwartz disagrees. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Problem-based Learning

    by Peter Schwartz ...
    Problem-based learning (PBL) is becoming widely used in higher education. Popular in the medical sciences, PBL is now finding applications beyond - in engineering, sciences and architecture - and is widely applicable in many fields. It is a powerful teaching technique that appeals to students and educators alike. This book will be of great value to those who want to improve their use of PBL and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Arendt's Judgment

    Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship

    by Jonathan Peter Schwartz ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    In Arendt's Judgment, Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject of the planned third volume of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, which was left unwritten at the time of her death. Arguing that previous interpretations of Arendt failed to fully appreciate the central place of judgment in her thought, Schwartz contends that understanding Arendt's ideas requires ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Arendt's Judgment

    Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship

    by Jonathan Peter Schwartz ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    In Arendt's Judgment, Jonathan Peter Schwartz explores the nature of human judgment, the subject of the planned third volume of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind, which was left unwritten at the time of her death. Arguing that previous interpretations of Arendt failed to fully appreciate the central place of judgment in her thought, Schwartz contends that understanding Arendt's ideas requires ... Read more

    $67.49 USD