Studies in Words

8 best books like Studies in Words (C.S. Lewis): The Logic of Scientific Discovery, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, Three Hearts and Three Lions, Mencius, Lilith, The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness, The Frege Reader, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

The Logic of Scientific Discovery
AuthorKarl Popper
ISBN0415278449
We do not know: we can only guess.
Karl Popper originally wrote Logik der Forchung (The Logic of Research) in 1934. This original version—published in haste to secure an academic position and escape the threat of Nazism (Popper was of Jewish descent)—was heavily condensed at the publisher’s...
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
AuthorFrancis A. Schaeffer
ISBN0891072926
How Should We Then Live is a discussion of how philosophy, art, and music have changed throughout history, and what these changes say about the human race and where we are headed.

This book reads like an art history class. Schaeffer takes you through history chronologically, through the dark...
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0575074981
The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.
And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century...
AuthorMencius
Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with kings, dukes and military men, as well as other philosophers, is one of the Four Books that make up the essential...
AuthorGeorge MacDonald
ISBN1587159260
Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation.

After he followed the old man through the mirror, nothing in his life was ever right again. It was a special mirror and the man he followed was a special man -- a man who led him to the things that underlie the fate of all creation....
AuthorMartha Stout
ISBN0142000558
"When we say a friend was 'like a different person,' we may be more right than we know."
-The Boston Globe

Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife?

How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install...
AuthorGottlob Frege
ISBN0631194452
This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include all of his seminal papers and substantial selections from all three of his major works. It is intended to provide the essential primary texts for students of logic, metaphysics and philosophy of...
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
AuthorMircea Eliade
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive...
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