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10 best books like Psychology: The Briefer Course (William James): The New Organon, Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus, Parmenides, Proslogion, Tristan et Isolde, The Annals/The Histories, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusätze, The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

The New Organon
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0521564832
Since I’ve lately read Aristotle’s original, I thought I’d go ahead and read Bacon’s New Organon. The title more or less says it all. For this book is an attempt to recast the method of the sciences in a better mold. Whereas Aristotle spends pages and pages enumerating the various types of syllogisms,...
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0691020361
This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. This book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous...
Parmenides
AuthorPlato
This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality.

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Proslogion
AuthorAnselm of Canterbury
ISBN0268016976
In the Proslogion, St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the systems...
Tristan et Isolde
AuthorRichard Wagner
ISBN2070400190
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
The Annals/The Histories
AuthorTacitus
ISBN0812966996
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius,...
Essays on the Theory of Numbers
AuthorRichard Dedekind
ISBN0486210103
This volume contains the two most important essays on the logical foundations of the number system by the famous German mathematician J. W. R. Dedekind. The first presents Dedekind's theory of the irrational number-the Dedekind cut idea-perhaps the most famous of several such theories created in...
The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusätze
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0872200701
Wissenschaft der Logik = Hegel's Science of Logic, c1998, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831), Arnold V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay
Science of Logic, first published between 1812 and 1816, is the work in which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel outlined his vision of logic. Hegel's logic...
The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0486600688
This is an unabridged republication of the definitive English translation of one of the very greatest classics of science. Originally published in 1637, it has been characterized as "the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences" (John Stuart Mill); as a book which "remade...
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World
AuthorJohannes Kepler
ISBN1573920363
The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion: that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that their speed is greatest when...
Don Giovanni in Full Score
AuthorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ISBN0486230260
This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written. This edition contains all the music Mozart wrote for Don Giovanni, both for the original version performed in Prague (1787) and the alterations―Don Ottavio's aria...
German Ideology
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN0717803015
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference
AuthorWilliam R. Shadish
ISBN0395615569
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Ptolemy's Almagest
AuthorPtolemy
ISBN0691002606
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard...
Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
AuthorAbraham Lincoln
ISBN0486268721
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For someone who claimed he had been educated by "littles" — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeches,...
Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach
AuthorMichael G. Aamodt
ISBN0495093068
Michael Aamodt's Fifth Edition of INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: AN APPLIED APPROACH appeals directly to students by incorporating a high degree of scholarship along with many real-world examples that make the excitement of this field obvious. This text integrates charts and tables...
Elements of Chemistry
AuthorAntoine Lavoisier
ISBN0486646246
Monumental classic by the founder of modern chemistry is essential for undergraduate students. First explicit statement of law of conservation of matter in chemical change; first modern list of chemical elements; more. Facsimile reprint of original (1790) Kerr translation. Introduction by Professor...
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
AuthorWilliam Harvey
ISBN1425464971
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0521424461
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract.The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau...
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
AuthorSigmund Freud
Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard...
Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
AuthorEdmund Husserl
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts to forge a union between phenomenology and...
Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
AuthorGary May
ISBN0465018467
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer...
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