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  • Socrates on Self-Improvement

    Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness

    by Nicholas D. Smith ...
    What model of knowledge does Plato's Socrates use? In this book, Nicholas D. Smith argues that it is akin to knowledge of a craft which is acquired by degrees, rather than straightforward knowledge of facts. He contends that a failure to recognize and identify this model, and attempts to ground ethical success in contemporary accounts of propositional or informational knowledge, have led to ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic

    by Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Nicholas D. Smith presents an original interpretation of the Republic, considering it to be a book about knowledge and education. Over the course of Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic, he argues for four main theses. Firstly, the Republic is not just a work that has a lot to say about education; it is a book that depicts Socrates as attempting to engage his interlocutors in such a way as to ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More

    by Nicholas D. Smith ...
    The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Socratic Moral Psychology

    by Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires have no role to play in causing such failure went unchallenged. This book argues against the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Knowledge

    by Ian Evans, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their book guides the reader through the standard theories of knowledge while simultaneously using these as a springboard to introduce current debates. Each chapter concludes with a “Current ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito

    Critical Essays

    by Rachana Kamtekar, Mark McPherran, P T. Geach, S Marc Cohen, Gregory Vlastos, E De Strycker, S R. Slings, Terence Irwin, M F. Burnyeat, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith, Richard Kraut, David Bostock, Verity Harte, Donald Morrison ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers, investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates

    by Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction of Socrates' ideas.In this GuideBook, Brickhouse and Smith provide clear explanations of these texts ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Hell Divers

    by Nicholas Sansbury Smith ...
    Narrated by R. C. Bray ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Hell Divers Series

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    2016 Audible Editor’s Pick2016 Audible’s Best in Science FictionThe New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesAn Audible Top 100 Series of All TimeMore than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    White Sands and Red Sands

    Two Orbs Prequels

    by Nicholas Sansbury Smith ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...
    Series Audiobook 0.2 - The Orbs Series

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    The thrilling short stories set in the Orbs universe.Jeff and his little brother, David, are alone. Their parents have disappeared along with the rest of the world, replaced by glowing blue orbs and a terrifying army of aliens. But the boys are survivors. Living in the tunnels beneath the White Sands military base, escaping from hungry aliens, and searching for supplies, they hatch a plan. The ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Blood Cartel

    by Nicholas Woode-Smith ...
    Narrated by Charis Hart ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Kat Drummond

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Being a hero sucks…You can slay a hundred monsters and some people will still look down on you. And for every person that calls you a hero, there’s another that calls you a murderer.I’ve been punished for doing my job and tossed to the side to solve a sham of a case, when I’d rather be busting the heads of undead and necromancers.People go missing in Hope City every day. But this new case is ... Read more

    $13.47 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Part-Time Monster Hunter

    A Broke Student's Guide to Monster Hunting

    by Nicholas Woode-Smith ...
    Narrated by Suzanne T. Fortin ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Kat Drummond

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    Monster hunting sounds glamorous until you’re scrubbing ghoul blood out of your hoodie at three in the morning.I’m Kat Drummond. Broke university student by day. Part-time monster hunter by night. Full-time magnet for bad decisions.After a necromancer murdered my parents, I swore vengeance on the undead and everything that serves them. Since then, I’ve spent my nights hunting ghouls, zombies, ... Read more

    $13.47 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Sons of War 4: Soldiers

    by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Tom Abrahams ...
    Narrated by Ray Porter ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Sons of War Series

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Tom Abrahams comes the fourth and final installment in the action-packed Sons of War series.In the conclusion to the sweeping saga of postapocalyptic Los Angeles, Dominic Salvatore leads the Saints, a secret team of elite operatives, in a final push to purge the city of its demons. After sending their families into ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus