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1w44b/17

Metabioethics and Biomedicine: Synthesis of Principles and Applications


BARRAGAN, CARDINAL JAVIER LOZANO

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, DISC TO REAR POCKET MISSING, imperial octavo, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, 207pp, illus, VG+ (usual but minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, light chafing, light water damage to base of rear pages- some light adhesion)

PUBLISHER: Editrice Velar-Gorle (Printer) 2006

KEYWORDS: metabioethics biomedicine philosophy science religion ethics medicine

$15.00
xxstc171970

Stanley Cavell and Literary Scepticism


FISCHER, MICHAEL

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1989

KEYWORDS: stanley cavell literary theory scepticism criticism critique philosophy

$15.00
xxstc172009

The Dream of the Earth


BERRY, THOMAS

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Sierra Club Books

KEYWORDS: nature sierra club philosophy science natural library

$40.00
2i37a/18

The Melancholy Art


HOLLY, MICHAEL ANN

Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 194pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: art history sadness melancholy criticism renaissance philosophy

$55.00
2i41a/39

The Inner Journey: Views From the Gurdjieff Work


NEEDLEMAN, JACOB (Ed)

DVD AT REAR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xxxii + 357pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Morning Light Press 2008

KEYWORDS: literature Gurdjieff philosophy

$60.00
2i41a/46

Lesson From History: The Tokushi Yoron


HAKUSEKI, ARAI & ACKROYD, JOYCE (Trans & Commentary)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, lx + 417pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink & white-out to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 1982

KEYWORDS: Japanese literature philosophy

$45.00
2i41a/47

Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism


HAROOTUNIAN, H. D.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xii + 494pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Tokugawa nativism Japan Japanese history kokugaku ideology philosophy 18th eighteenth century

$145.00
2i41a/54

State and Scholars in T'ang China


McMULLEN, DAVID

LACKS D/W, super octavo, green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 423pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge 1988

KEYWORDS: China Chinese T'ang dynasty ancient history state intellectual life philosophy

$100.00
2i41a/55

From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China


ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, sl cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some sl loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: philosophy philology Chinese China late imperial history lower Yangtze region

$50.00
2i41a/57

Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period (Ch'ing-tai hsueh-shu kai-lun)


CH'I-CH'AO, LIANG & HSU, IMMANUEL C. Y. (Trans & Intro) & SCHWARTZ, BENJAMIN I. (Fore)

Super octavo, grey buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, xxii + 147pp + lii bibliography, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1059

KEYWORDS: China Chinese philosophy Ch'ing period dynasty

$95.00
2i41a/59

Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905-1911


HON, TZE-KI

LACKS D/W, super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, 135pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light chafing to boards, ffep completely missing)

PUBLISHER: Brill/Leiden 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese revolution restoration history philosophy Guocui xuebao

$65.00
2i41a/60

Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan


HAROOTUNIAN, HARRY

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxii + 440pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history Asian studies culture philosophy

$15.00
xxste172118

Hermeneutics and Praxis


HOLLINGER, ROBERT (ed.)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Notre Dame 1985

KEYWORDS: hermeneutics praxis martin heidigger hans-georg gadamer richard rorty pragmatism philosophy social theory

$14.50
xxstf172162

A Healer's Journey Into Light


TODD, LORNA

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 1995

KEYWORDS: self help improvement Lorna Todd light work philosophy psychology meditation relaxation

$24.50
xxstf172166

Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger: A Study in Fiction and Theology


GUSTAFSON, RICHARD F.

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: Leo Tolstory literary criticism literature philosophy theology religion

$50.00
2i42a/1

Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China


LIU, KWANG-CHING (Ed)

LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 364pp, Near FINE (v sl bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperial civilization civilisation congresses philosophy studies humanities class stratification

$42.50
2i42a/3

Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki


HAKUSEKI, ARAI & ACKROYD, JOYCE (Trans)

Super octavo, cream cloth boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 347pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's v sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, 1cm loss to lower spine extrem, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press & University of Tokyo Press 1979

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arai Hakuseki Japanese literature philosophy Confucius

$45.00
2i42a/4

Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution: Zhang Binglin and Confucianism


KENJI, SHIMADA & FOGEL, JOSHUA A. (Trans)

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 190pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Confucius philosophy essays prose collection revolution thought religion

$40.00
2i42a/18

Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning: A Translation of the Meng Tzu tzu-i shu-cheng


CHIN, ANN-PING & FREEMAN, MANSFIELD (Trans & Intro)

Super octavo, beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xi + 222pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to upper extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: China Chinese meng tzu tzu-i shu-cheng Tai Chen Ch'ing philosophy Confucius confucian

$85.00
2i42a/24

Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics


GU, MING DONG

Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 334pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to cover corners & edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China Chinese theories literature reading writing theory Asian studies literary criticism philosophy

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