Author: Harold M. Tanner
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: history, china
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2009-03-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0872209156
ISBN-13: 9780872209152

A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes - such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires - that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. It includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index.

Author: Steven M. Cah
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: philosophy, western, classics
Number of Pages: 1237
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0872208591
ISBN-13: 9780872208599

The seventh edition of Steven Cahn’s "Classics of Western Philosophy" features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus’ "Enneads", Schopenhauer’s "The World as Will and Representation", Husserl’s "Paris Lectures", Wittgenstein’s "Philosophical Investigations", and a new selection from Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit". Selections from Aristotle’s "Metaphysics" and "On the Soul" have been expanded, while Aristotle’s "Physics and Nicomachean Ethics", Hume’s "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", Mill’s "On Liberty

Authors:Plato,  John M. Cooper, G. M. A. Grube,
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: socrates, death, trial
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0872205541
ISBN-13: 9780872205543

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates presents G. M. A. Grube’s distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography.

Authors:Thomas Hobbes,  Edwin Curley,
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: latin, variants, selected, leviathan
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0872201775
ISBN-13: 9780872201774

This new edition of Hobbe’s masterpiece is uniquely suited to meet the needs of both student and scholar. It offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernised spelling and punctuation of the text, and a key annotative feature found in no other edition: the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the most significant variants between the English version of 1651 and the Latin version of 1668. A glossary of seventeenth century English terms and indexes of persons, subjects, and scriptural passages help make this the most thoughtfully conceived edition of Leviat

Authors:Laozi,  Philip J. Ivanhoe,
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: laozi, daodejing
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0872207013
ISBN-13: 9780872207011

A reprint of the Seven Bridges Press edition of 2002. Philip J. Ivanhoe’s richly annotated translation of this classic work is accompanied by his engaging interpretation and commentary, a lucid introduction, and a Language Appendix that compares eight classic translations of the opening passage of the work and invites the reader to consider the principles upon which each was rendered.

Author: Gordon Harvey
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: students, guide, sources, writing
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $6.45
ISBN-10: 087220944X
ISBN-13: 9780872209442

Developed for Harvard University’s Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources describes the main principles and methods of integrating and citing sources in scholarly work, and provides cogent guidance on avoiding the misuse of sources.The second edition of Writing with Sources is updated throughout, and includes new material on the roles sources play in argument, on assessing the reliability of sources, and on attitudes about writing that can lead to plagiarism.

Author: Rene Descarte
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: seeking, truth, sciences, reason, one, method, conducting, discourse
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0872204227
ISBN-13: 9780872204225

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress’s translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the 1979 First Edition and includes pages references to the critical edition for ease of comparison.