Looking at philosophy - Donald Palmer

Organized historically and augmented by more than 400 cartoons designed to make teaching and learning more fun, this lighthearted work born of serious scholarship can be used as a core text or as a supplement in introductory courses.

Donald Palmer received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Univ. of California, Berkeley and his Doctorate of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
He has published a number of philosophy books, including Looking at Philosophy, Does the Center Hold? and Why Its Hard to Be Good (McGraw-Hill), and, more popularly, Kierkegaard for Beginners, Sartre for Beginners, and Structuralism and Post-Structuralism for Beginners.
He has recently completed a manuscript on Don Quixote titled Philosophy and Madness in La Mancha.
He taught for many years at the College of Marin, in California, and finished his teaching career at North Carolina State University.
He and his wife divide their time among North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Lot Valley in Southwestern France.