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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Available on: Audio Download ($9.07) | Audio CD ($10.36)
Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world.
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Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($10.00) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Socrates questions Ion, an actor, about his ability to interpret the poetry of Homer. In the Meno, the topic is whether goodness can be taught. Both dialogues provide more questions than answers.
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Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($14.00) | Audio CD
Gorgias of Leontini, who teaches rhetoric, is in Athens, to instruct potential leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house where Socrates questions him in his usual way.
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Plato's Phaedrus
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($12.00)
Phaedrus treats the nature of love, mythical visions of human nature and destiny, and the essence of beauty. It ends with a penetrating discussion of speaking, writing, and the love of wisdom.
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The Universe Next Door
by James W. Sire
Available on: Audio Download ($14.98) | Audio CD ($26.98) | MP3 CD
When The Universe Next Door was first introduced nearly thirty years ago, it set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews.
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Spinoza: Religion and Politics
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Baruch Spinoza is considered by some to be the first modern thinker. Explore his story and his crucial work on personal and political philosophy.
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Introducing Postmodernism
by Richard Appignanesi
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
What on earth is postmodernism? Here, at last, is the perfect audio guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to describe our cultural condition of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
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Aristotle's Poetics
by Aristotle
Available on: Audio Download ($7.50)
Aristotle claimed “poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history.” In this postmodern era it is worthwhile to consider Aristotle’s way of connecting beauty, truth, and goodness.
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Karl Marx
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
When Marx died, his disciples were few in numbers. But within ten years his followers were numerous. And within 20 years they constituted millions.
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For The New Intellectual
by Ayn Rand
Available on: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create.
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