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![Man Made God : The Meaning of Life](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/841/519/1609519841.0.m.jpg)
Man Made God : The Meaning of Life
by Ferry, Luc
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- 1st Paperback Edition
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- 2002
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- Softcover
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- 9780226244853
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 22.89
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Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2002. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. An exellent copy. Translated by David Pellauer. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 172 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Item Price
SGD 22.89
![Love, Life and Goethe : How To be Happy in an Imperfect World](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/417/302/1608302417.0.m.jpg)
Love, Life and Goethe : How To be Happy in an Imperfect World
by Armstrong, John
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- 1st Paperback Edition
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- 2006
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- Softcover
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- 9780713996791
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 14.65
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London: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books. 2006. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm].Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Some light rubbing to dustjacket. Black & white illustrations. Several pages have neat pencil underlinings - not obtrusive. xv, 483 pages. Explores the main… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 14.65
![Socrates : A Man for Our Times](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/576/192/1606192576.0.m.jpg)
Socrates : A Man for Our Times
by Johnson, Paul
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- 1st thus
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- 2011
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- Softcover
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- 9780143122210
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 15.11
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New York: Penguin Books. 2011. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 208 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover. Item Price
SGD 15.11
![Religio Medici and Christian Morals](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/187/1605187769.0.m.jpg)
Religio Medici and Christian Morals
by Browne, Sir Thomas; Keynes, Geoffrey (Edited with andIntroduction by)
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- 1st thus
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- 1940
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- Hardback
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 22.89
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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. 1940. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ has a lightly age-toned spine with small chips to spine ends. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 22.89
![English Traits](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/070/921/1601921070.0.m.jpg)
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English Traits
by Emerson, R. W. (Ralph Waldo)
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- 1st UK Edition
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- 1856
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- Hardback
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 91.56
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London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1856. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Good condition. Marbled boards with leather spine and corners. Boards and leather lightly rubbed. A couple of spots of foxing to endpapers. Corners gently bumped. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays on English culture and… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 91.56
![Politics and Conscience. Dag Hammarskjold on the art of ethical leadership](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/122/586/1601586122.0.m.jpg)
Politics and Conscience. Dag Hammarskjold on the art of ethical leadership
by Lipsey, Roger
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- 1st Edition
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- 2020
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- Hardback
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- 9781611807363
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 20.14
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Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala. 2020. 12mo [approx 13x20cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 139 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Item Price
SGD 20.14
![The Choice of Hercules: Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/965/655/1596655965.0.m.jpg)
The Choice of Hercules: Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century
by Grayling, A. C.
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- Like New
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- 1st Edition
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- 2007
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- Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780297848332
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 27.47
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2007. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 184 pages. Addresses the everyday ethical choices which confront us all. . Like New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Item Price
SGD 27.47
![A Chaos of Delight : Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/309/750/1593750309.0.m.jpg)
A Chaos of Delight : Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought
by Dobson, Geoffrey P.
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- 1st Paperback Edition
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- 2005
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9781845530198
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 27.47
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London: Equinox. 2005. Very Good condition. Illustrated with diagrams and several maps. x, 478 pages. A comprehensive guided tour of the ways human beings have constructed order and meaning about the world, and their place in it. Examines how various cultures, from early Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks to contemporary Western society, have looked at the same phenomena and devised… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 27.47
![To Relish the Sublime? : Culture and Self-Realisation in Postmodern Times](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/939/332/1593332939.0.m.jpg)
To Relish the Sublime? : Culture and Self-Realisation in Postmodern Times
by Ryle, Martin and Soper, Kate
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- 1st Paperback Edition
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- 2002
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9781859844618
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 20.14
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London: Verso. 2002. A Near Fine copy. Card covers. 262 pages. Education in the humanities still relies, more or les, on Matthew Arnold's ideal of culture as the means for intellectual devlopment. In a distinctive and original work the author reflect critically on this enduring ideal, exploring the tensions and contradictions between it and the contemporary world. … Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 20.14
![War An Enquiry](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/880/1589880162.0.m.jpg)
War An Enquiry
by Grayling, A. C.
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- Like New
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- 1st Edition
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- 2017
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- Hardback
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- 9780300175349
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 25.64
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2017. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. 268 pages. Explores the long, tragic history of war and how warfare has changed in response to technological advances. Grayling envisons… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 25.64
![Nymphs of the Valley](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/042/674/1585674042.0.m.jpg)
Nymphs of the Valley
by GIBRAN, Kahlil
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- Reprint
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- 1971
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- Hardback
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- 9780434290666
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 18.31
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London: Heinemann. 1971. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light rubbing to DJ edges with some small closed tears to corners. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. With four illustrations by the author. Translated from the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 18.31
![What is Man? (The Thinker's Library No. 60)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/937/812/1574812937.0.m.jpg)
What is Man? (The Thinker's Library No. 60)
by Twain, Mark; Ratcliffe, S.K. (Introduction)
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- 1st thus
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- 1936
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- Hardback
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 13.73
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London: Watts & Co.. 1936. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Mild age-toning to spine and faint offset to free endpapers. Lengthy Introduction including The Author's Foreword. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxxix, 114 pages + Advertisements. A story published in 1906. A dialogue between an old and young man about… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 13.73
![Selected Works of Voltaire (The Thinker's Library No. 54)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/812/1574812936.0.m.jpg)
Selected Works of Voltaire (The Thinker's Library No. 54)
by Voltaire; McCabe, Joseph (Translated & with and Introductionby)
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- 1st thus
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- 1935
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- Hardback
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 13.73
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London: Watts & Co.. 1935. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Mild age-toning to spine and edges. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. Black & white frontispiece. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 214 pages. Contents: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster; We Must Take Sides; The Question of Zapata;… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 13.73
![Goethe's Image of Man and Society](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/535/698/1574698535.0.m.jpg)
Goethe's Image of Man and Society
by Bergstraesser, Arnold
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- 1st thus
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- 1962
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- Hardback
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 36.62
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Freiburg: Herder. 1962. Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 359 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback. Item Price
SGD 36.62
![The Architecture of Happiness](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/738/639/1572639738.0.m.jpg)
The Architecture of Happiness
by de Botton, Alain
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- 1st Edition
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- 2006
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- Hardback
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- 9780241142486
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 22.89
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London: Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books. 2006. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 280 pages. A beguiling tour through… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 22.89
![Shantung Compound. The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/564/040/1571040564.0.m.jpg)
Shantung Compound. The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure
by Gilkey, Langdon
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- 1st Paperback Edition
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- 1975
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- Softcover
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- 9780060631123
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 12.82
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San Francisco: Harper & Row. 1975. Octavo Size [approx 13x22cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Maps and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 242 pages. 2000 men, women, and children hered together under the menace of Japanese guns rebuild a world and rediscover themselves. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Item Price
SGD 12.82
![Constitutions of the United Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria, containing the General Charges, Laws, Rules and Regulations, &c., &c. 1958](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/193/1568193028.0.m.jpg)
Constitutions of the United Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Victoria, containing the General Charges, Laws, Rules and Regulations, &c., &c. 1958
by No Author Noted
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- 1958
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- Hardback
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 18.31
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Melbourne: Harston, Partridge & Co Pty Ltd. 1958. 16mo. [approx 10cm x 17cm]. Good condition. No dustjacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt to face. Some minor flecking to covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 153 pages. . Hardback. Item Price
SGD 18.31
![Manliness](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/023/193/1568193023.0.m.jpg)
Manliness
by Mansfield, Harvey C.
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- Used -
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- 1st Edition
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- 2006
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- Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780300106640
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- 1
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 18.31
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New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 289 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Item Price
SGD 18.31
![The Flame of Reason : Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/002/340/1566340002.0.m.jpg)
The Flame of Reason : Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century
by Sturmark, Christer with Douglas Hofstadter
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- Reprint
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- 2022
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- Hardback
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- 9781803280981
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 27.47
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London: Head of Zeus. 2022. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Translated by Douglas Hofstadter. Forewords by Sturmark and Hofstadter. Includes Notes and Index. xxxiii, 354 pages. Christer Sturmark is a secular humanist as well as… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 27.47
![Reading Nietzsche](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/931/339/1566339931.0.m.jpg)
Reading Nietzsche
by Solomon, Robert C. & Higgins, Kethleen M. [Editor]
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- Reprint
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- 1990
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- Softcover
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- 9780195066739
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Daw Park, South Australia, AUS
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SGD 32.05
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New York: Oxford University Press. 1990. Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 251 pages. . Reprint. Softcover. Item Price
SGD 32.05