Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: Ignatius Pre
Keywords: meets, founder, existentialism, philosophy, father, sartre, socrates
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0898709717
ISBN-13: 9780898709711
This book is one of a series of Socratic explorations of some of the Great Books. The books in this series are intended to be short, clear, and non-technical, thus fully understandable by beginners. Through such Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft introduces (or reviews) the basic questions in the fundamental divisions of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, ethics, logic, and method. In Socrates Meets Sartre, Kreeft takes the reader through the world of existentialist philosophy, posing questions that challenge the concepts that Sartre proposed. Based on an imaginary dialogue bet
Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: Ignatius Pre
Keywords: meets, modern, child, influential, father, kant, socrates, philosophy
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1586173480
ISBN-13: 9781586173487
Immanuel Kant is one of the greatest philosophers in history. But, as Peter Kreeft notes in this book, Kant is really two philosophers - a philosopher about how we know things (epistemology) and a philosopher of right and wrong (ethics). If he had written only on either topic, he would still be the most important and influential of the modern philosophers. The combination of the two, though, makes for a formidable thinker, one it would take a figure such as the Father of Philosophy, the relentless Socrates, to confront. Confront he does, in Peter Kreeft’s next installment of the popular
Author: Ilse Storb
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Keywords: world, meets, jazz
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2000
List price: $20.90
ISBN-10: 3825837483
ISBN-13: 9783825837488
Author: David Levitha
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Reader
Keywords: meets
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0375832998
ISBN-13: 9780375832994
In this delightful young adult novel for readers 12 and up, high school sophomore Paul says, "There isn?t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They got all mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best." And, as he observes at the end of the story, "It’s a wonderful world." Paul has both gay and straight friends, and they all hang out together at terrific bookstores and concerts, and advise one another on the sometimes troubled progress of their various romances. Paul is smitten with Noah, and they are beginning a serious relationship when Kyle, Paul?s ex, complicat
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Avon A
Keywords: girl, meets
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060085452
ISBN-13: 9780060085452
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She:works for the T.O.D. (short for TyrannicalOffice Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins,Director of the Human Resources Divisionat the New York Journal)is sleeping on the couch because herboyfriend of ten years refuses to commitcan’t find an affordable studio apartmentanywhere in New York Citythinks things can’t get any worse.They can. Because:the T.O.D. is making her fire the most popularemployee in the paper’s senior staff dining roomthat employee is now suing Kate for wrongfultermination, andnow Kate has to give a deposition in front ofMitch Hertzog, th
Author: Grace Li
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: meets, mountain
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0316114278
ISBN-13: 9780316114271
In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life’s questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family’s fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin,
Author: Ann B. Ro
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: match, meets, julia, miss
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-03-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143034855
ISBN-13: 9780143034858
With devoted fans across the country, Miss Julia?that endearingly sharp-tongued southern belle of a certain age?has no shortage of admirers. But in Miss Julia Meets Her Match, our feisty heroine must come to terms with her most ardent admirer of all: longtime beau Sam Murdoch, who wants to tie the knot. While it?s hard to resist Sam?s charm, Miss Julia isn?t about to give up her independence so easily. After all, there are plenty of other matters that require her attention, including a Holy Land theme park to be built on her property, a possible affair between the mayor and the preacher?s secr
