Philosophy Books at Dial a Book Sydney

The Faber Book of Utopias (Paperback)
Carey, John
Book Number: 67081
ISBN: 0571197906
Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd. London, 1999.
8vo. softcover. 531pp. index. Good, foxing to outer edge of text-block and endpapers.
Price: $20.00

Shelly & Zastrozzi, Self-Revelation of a Neurotic
Chesser, Eustace
Book Number: 23412
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Gregg/Archive March 1965
8vo. hardcover. 159pp. Very good. / Good d/w with some insect damage on edges. Contains the full text of Shelley's first published work, reprinted for the first time this century, and a psychological analysis of the work's contents in which Shelley's unconscious conflicts were worked out in disguise. Cover art on dj by Sheila Chesser. 165pp.
Price: $20.00

Philosophical Anthropology. Outline of Fundamental Problems
Darowski, Roman
Book Number: 66159
ISBN: 9788327701640
Publisher: Ignatianum Jesuit University of Cracow, 2014.
8vo. softcover. 168pp. index. Good, small stain on edge, cover corners rubbed.
Price: $30.00

The News: A User's Manual
De Botton, Alain
Book Number: 63539
ISBN: 978024114677
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Books, London 2014.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 267pp. index, b/w illus. Fine. / Fine d/w.
Price: $12.00

Made for Happiness: Discovering the Meaning of Life with Aristotle
Vanier, Jean
Book Number: 66078
ISBN: 0232524440
Publisher: Darton, Longman and Todd, London, 2001
8vo. softcover. 203pp. Good+, laminate lifting from cover on top edge, cover creased along spine.
Price: $12.00

Capital. A Critique Political Economy. Volume II. Book III: The process of capitalist production as a whole
Marx, Karl. Edited by Frederick Engels
Book Number: 65776
ISBN:
Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow 1974.
8vo. 948pp. index. Good, page edges toned, tape marks on endpapers.
Price: $75.00

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
Berlin, Isaiah
Book Number: 65494
ISBN: 0701165278
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, 1997.
8vo. hardcover. 667pp. index. Very good, foxing to outer page edges. / Good d/w with some small tears and some creases.
Price: $30.00

Three Essays on Population
Malthus, Thomas. Eduted by Anthony Flew
Book Number: 64959
ISBN: 0140400184
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1970.
8vo. softcover. 291pp. index. Good, page edges browned.
Price: $7.00

Hermes: Or, a Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Language and Universal Grammar. by J. H.
Harris, James
Book Number: 64036
ISBN: 9781140735250
Publisher: Ecco, Print Editions, USA, 2010.
Large 8vo. softcover. Reproduction from the British Library edition published in 1751. Near Fine, light crease on front cover top edge.
Price: $35.00

Brier-Patch Philosophy by "Peter Rabbit"
Long, William J., illus. by Charles Copeland.
Book Number: 64001
ISBN:
Publisher: Harper & Brothers New York: 1906,
8vo. hardcover. 274pp. b/w illus. good, missing fep., owner's details on prelim, some small notes written on a few pages, stain on front cover.
Price: $18.00

Culture and the Death of God
Eagleton, Terry
Book Number: 63577
ISBN: 9780300203998
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014.
8vo. hardcover. 294pp. index. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Essays in Love
Botton, Alain de
Book Number: 63562
ISBN: 9780330440783
Publisher: Picador 1993.
8vo softcover 212pp very good.
Price: $8.00

Hegel's Theory of the Modern State
Avineri, Shlomo
Book Number: 63405
ISBN: 0521098327
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press 1974
8vo. softcover. 252pp. index. Good+.
Price: $10.00

Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Grayling, A. C.
Book Number: 63391
ISBN: 9781441154361
Publisher: Continuum 2009.
8vo. softcover. 208pp. index. Fine.
Price: $14.00

Hindu Scriptures
Zaehner, R. C. (translator & editor)
Book Number: 63305
ISBN: 1857150643
Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1992.
8vo. hardcover. 411pp. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
Russell, Bertrand (Edited by Robert E. Egner & Lester E. Denonn)
Book Number: 63316
ISBN: 9780415472388
Publisher: Routledge, London & New York, 2009.
8vo. softcover. 749pp. index. Fine.
Price: $30.00

One hundred philosophers : the life and work of the world's greatest thinkers
King, Peter J.
Book Number: 63322
ISBN: 0733314228
Publisher: Sydney ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2005
Large 8vo softcover 192pp index, colour & b/w illus. Near Fine
Price: $18.00

The Penguin History of Western Philosophy
Hamlyn, David W.
Book Number: 63298
ISBN: 0140137521
Publisher: Penguin 1990.
8vo. softcover. 345pp. index. Very good, page edges toned.
Price: $8.00

Practical Ethics - Second Edition
Singer, Peter
Book Number: 63292
ISBN: 9780521439718
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press 2007
8vo softcover 395pp index. very good+. Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography. He has also added an appendix describing some of the deep misunderstanding of, and consequent violent reaction to, the book in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland where the book has tested the limits of freedom of speech. The focus of the book is the application of ethics to difficult and controversial social questions: equality and discrimination by race, sex, ability, or species; abortion, euthanasia, and embryo experimentation; the moral status of animals; political violence and civil disobedience; overseas aid and the obligation to assist others; responsibility for the environment; the treatment of refugees. Singer explains and assesses relevant arguments in a perspicuous, non-doctrinaire way. He structures the book to show how contemporary controversies often have deep philosophical roots; and he presents an ethical theory of his own that can be applied consistently and convincingly to all the practical cases. The book's primary readership remains teachers and students of ethics whether in philosophy or some other branch of the humanities or social sciences. However, such is the clarity of the book's style and structure that it should interest any thinking person concerned with the most difficult social problems facing us as we approach the twenty-first century.
Price: $20.00

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
Popper, Karl
Book Number: 63288
ISBN: 0415086930
Publisher: Routledge London 1992.
8vo. softcover. 276pp. index. Near Fine.
Price: $15.00

Humanly possible; a biologist's notes on the future of mankind
Rostand, Jean
Book Number: 62757
ISBN: 0841501777
Publisher: Saturday Review Press, New York 1973.
8vo. hardcover. 182pp. Near Fine, bookseller sticker inside front cover. / Good+ d/w with snall tear on bottom corner(repaired).
Price: $12.00

The Raft and Socrates Asks Why: Two Conversations
Linklater, Eric
Book Number: 62756
ISBN:
Publisher: Macmillan & Co., London, 1944.
8vo. hardcover. 121pp. Very good. / God d/w missing pieces at top and bottom of spine.
Price: $8.00

Individual morality
Hemming, James
Book Number: 62754
ISBN:
Publisher: Nelson, 1969.
8vo. hardcover. 261pp. Very good, owner's name on fep. / Very good d/w rubbed on top corners.
Price: $12.00

The Passionate Sceptic.
Russell, Bertrand
Book Number: 62758
ISBN:
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin, London 1957, First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 249pp. index. Good, foxing to endpapers & outer page edges. / Good. chipped d/w torn along rear edge.
Price: $25.00

The Lonley Crowd. A study of the changing American character.
Riesman, David with Glazer, Nathan & Denney, Reuel.
Book Number: 62759
ISBN: 0300001932
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven 1966.
8vo. softcover. 315pp. index. Good+. corners slightly bumped.
Price: $15.00

101 Philosophy Problems
Cohen, Martin
Book Number: 62653
ISBN: 0415261296
Publisher: Routledge London 2002 2nd edition.
8vo. softcover. 229pp. index. Good+, cover creased.
Price: $9.00

Life's Dominion: An Argument about Abortion and Euthanasia
Dworkin, Ronald
Book Number: 62607
ISBN: 0002159341
Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993
8vo. hardcover. 272pp. index. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00

Dharma the Cat - Philosophy with Fur
David Lourie (signed by) and Ted Blackall ( Illustrator)
Book Number: 60957
ISBN: 073181035x
Publisher: Simon and Schuster 2005
oblong 12mo softcover. 80pp. Near fine. Inscribed by David Laurie "for .... may the force be with you and initialed and initialed under his name on the title page. On the rocky road to Nirvana with a Buddhist cat, a novice monk and a mouse who doesn't care for anything but cheese...Available for the first time in book format, DHARMA THE CAT: PHILOSOPHY WITH FUR is a collection of cartoons that have appeared on the award-winning 'Dharma the Cat' website. The three characters featured in the cartoon strips are Bodhi, the novice monk; Siam, a cheese loving mouse; and Dharma, a cat who searches for meaning and truth, and looks fondly at the foibles of his human companion. The cartoons offer a rare blend of spirituality, philosophy and humour, with a Buddhist tone. The humour is based on a 'how not to' approach o spiritual practice, as the young novice Bodhi stumbles into every pitfall along the path to enlightenment, highlighting the foibles and universal tangles that people recognise in their own lives.
Price: $80.00