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The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal 9780313205309
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Penseees by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. The Pensees are made up of some 800... -
Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works by Blaise Pascal 9781602064911
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Pensees by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.56A passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicistBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his... -
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real... -
Pensees by Blaise Pascal 9780872207172
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest... -
Pensees and Other Writings by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.53For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These... -
Blaise Pascal Graham Tomlin 9781399807647
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68He lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the most remarkable and creative figures of the seventeenth century. He is known for his famous argument 'the wager', but there's so much more... -
Pens es by Blaise Pascal 9781948648608
Booksplease Price: £10.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948648608Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Selections from The Thoughts by Blaise Pascal 9780882950655
Booksplease Price: £13.53Included in this volume are fourteen of the fragments intended for Pascal's Jansenist-inspired defense of the Christian religion. Using the Chevalier edition, these are grouped to present a logical... -
Great Shorter Works of Pascal by Blaise Pascal 9781532646270
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Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart by Marvin R. O'Connell 9780802801586
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Blaise Pascal: Apologist to Skeptics by Charles Sherrard Mackenzie 9780761840138
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Pascal: Philosophical Fragments: Selected Pensées Blaise Pascal 9781647922221
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.27This volume provides a selection of the most philosophically relevant passages from Pascal's Pensees in Roger Ariew's updated translations. Also included are a chronology of Pascal's life and times,... -
Pascal's Apology for Religion: Extracted from the Pensees by Blaise Pascal 9781107683877
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Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin 9781399807654
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Readable and expert - a brilliant guide to the life and thought of 17th century Europe's supreme polymath'Tom Holland'A richly detailed account of Pascal's life and times, which displays an... -
The Life of Mr. Paschal,: With His Letters Relating to the Jesuits. in Two Volumes: Volume 2 by Blaise Pascal 9780461709759
Booksplease Price: £16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461709759Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint -
Thoughts on Religion & Other Subjects With Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month & Prayers by Fénelon. by Blaise Pascal 9780461787795
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461787795Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
The Ruined Elegance: Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain 9780691167695
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.99In her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "ruined elegance." Through an intercultural journey... -
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey 9780691220116
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless... -
The Mind of Kierkegaard by James Daniel Collins 9780691612904
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This introductory overview of Kierkegaard's writings summarizes their central arguments and places them in their historical context. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses... -
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler 9780691168692
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.67An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the... -
Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives by Albert Einstein 9780691160238
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully... -
Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the... -
What Happens After Pascal's Wager: Living Faith And Rational Belief by Daniel Garber 9780874621761
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Garber (philosophy, Princeton U.) was invited to deliver the 2009 Aquinas Lecture, an annual event sponsored by the Wisconsin-Alpha chapter of Phi Sigma Tau at Marquette University. He explores the... -
Consciousness and Transcendence: Art, Religion, and Human Existence by Loomis Mayer 9781803412245
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A central but rarely explored mystery of human existence and subjective consciousness was recognized by Blaise Pascal several centuries ago: Why am I me and not you or anyone else? Science can... -
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire by James Penney 9780791467695
Booksplease Price: £93.95An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose-and indeed everything to... -
Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages by Ursula King
Booksplease Price: £50.71Ursula King's Christian Mystics tells the story of sixty men and women whose mystical devotion to God transformed the times in which they lived and still affects our present-day search for spiritual... -
Crusades, The - New Ed by Michael Paine
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last... -
Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe by Stephen F. Haller 9780773524378 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £7.01Using arguments that parallel those of Blaise Pascal and William James, Haller offers prudential reasons for caution that should convince those not already persuaded by ethical arguments. While... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: An Anthology Alexander Broadie 9780862417383
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.39The Scottish Enlightenment is one of the great achievements of European culture. In philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences, Scots were key players in changing... -
The Molecular Nutrition of Amino Acids and Proteins: A Volume in the Molecular Nutrition Series by Dominique Dardevet 9780128021675
Booksplease Price: £117.64The Molecular Nutrition of Amino Acids and Proteins provides an in-depth look at the involvement and role of amino acids and proteins in molecular nutrition. Editor Dominique Dardevet has assembled a... -
Candide and L'Ingénu Voltaire 9781454959632
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a... -
A Journey Around My Room by 9781847493088
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of... -
The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mathematical Infinity in the Thirteenth Century Paolo Mancosu 9780198926887
RRP: £119.00Booksplease Price: £105.85The Wilderness of the Infinite explores the emergence in the Latinate thirteenth century of original approaches to mathematical infinity and to unequal infinities. Within the span of twenty years... -
Pascal: The Man and His Two Loves by John R. Cole 9780814715109
Booksplease Price: £90.87Ever since the edifying life written by his sister in the months after his death, canonical representations of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) have revered him for the scientific genius of his youth, the... -
Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance by Sherril Dodds 9780197620366
Booksplease Price: £93.89The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance examines what the face does in dance and what it may... -
A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing: The Sparse Way by Stephane Mallat 9780123743701
Booksplease Price: £98.80Mallat's book is the undisputed reference in this field - it is the only one that covers the essential material in such breadth and depth. - Laurent Demanet, Stanford University The new edition of... -
Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter by C.S. Lewis
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64Though Easter (like Christmas) is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there... -
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin by Trish Reid 9781472574435
Booksplease Price: £27.89To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland...