Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: May 10, 1994 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-449-90811-2 (0-449-90811-9)
Nationally known therapist Marvin Allen explores the root causes of men’s emotional problems and offers a comprehensive solution to restore their sense of joy and well-being: men working together in therapy groups.
Drawing on the life stories of scores of men, as well as the author’s own personal experience, this landmark...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 1520 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: September 11, 2001 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-75799-0 (0-375-75799-6)
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 22, 2005 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72127-1 (0-385-72127-7)
Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before—hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was returning and she was tormented by panic...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: June 1, 1971 Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-6413-9 (0-8070-6413-0)
In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relation between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Other Press On Sale: September 20, 2011 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-59051-483-2 (1-59051-483-1)
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography An Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 — Choice Magazine
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love–such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 1, 1962 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-03138-7 (0-385-03138-6)
Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 944 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: November 12, 2002 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-75804-1 (0-375-75804-6)
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 13, 2004 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-49389-5 (0-385-49389-4)
Nepotism is one of those social habits we all claim to deplore in America; it offends our sense of fair play and our pride in living in a meritocracy. But somehow nepotism prevails; we all want to help our own and a quick glance around reveals any number of successful families...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 14, 1999 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70528-1 (0-375-70528-7)
In this penetrating and thoughtful addition to the growing national debate over public and private morality, Bok looks at lying and deception in government, medicine, law, academia, journalism, in the family, and between friends in the light of history, psychology and ethical theory.
"A rare achievement. By bringing ethical theory and the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: August 7, 2012 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-488-3 (1-59017-488-7)
Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases of a near Shakespearean fecundity; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 13, 2004 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72568-5 (0-375-72568-7)
A Vintage Spiritual Classic
Now available together in a single volume, these two classics were written by seventeenth-century England’s most famous prisoner of conscience, Baptist John Bunyan (1628–1688). Imprisoned for twelve years for his preaching, he wrote first a dramatic allegory of Christian life and followed it with the compelling story of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 7, 1991 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72022-5 (0-679-72022-7)
Mordant, brilliant, elegantly styled, The Fall is a novel of the conscience of modern man in the face of evil. In a seedy bar in Amsterdam, Clamence, an expatriate Frenchman, indulges in a calculated confession. He recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer, a champion of noble causes, and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 12, 1970 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-70852-2 (0-394-70852-0)
Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy.
"Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 1, 1992 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-73384-3 (0-679-73384-1)
Camus' major essay on the nature and origins of rebellion demonstrates how revolution, by its very nature, inevitably leads to a new tyranny. For Camus, the urge to rebel is manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: May 8, 2007 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-470-9 (1-59030-470-5)
David Chadwick began his Zen study under the legendary Japanese master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Much later, Suzuki Roshi’s successor said of Chadwick: “Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste.”
In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial education. In THANK YOU...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 8, 2008 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27537-0 (0-307-27537-X)
A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.
When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she...
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Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Harmony On Sale: October 30, 2007 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-40774-0 (0-307-40774-8)
You don't have to believe in God in order to experience God. --- Deepak Chopra
The celebrated author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has written his most ambitious and important work yet, a runaway international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to rethink...
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Harmony On Sale: June 3, 2008 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-40888-4 (0-307-40888-4)
In this refreshing new take on spirituality, bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment—with a lot of laughter along the way.
Meet Mickey Fellows. A successful L.A. comedian, he’s just a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: August 1, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-7297-4 (0-8070-7297-4)
On February 4, 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer but promising to sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work-love and death. The goal of life, Church tells us, “is to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-75835-5 (0-375-75835-6)
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library On Sale: May 1, 2001 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-41204-2 (0-375-41204-2)
Confucius has become synonymous in the West with Eastern wisdom: profound and mysterious. He was, however, one of the most humane, lucid, and rational moral teachers of the ancient world, concerned not with arcane metaphysics or invisible gods but with the practical issues of life and conduct. How should the state...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: March 1, 1993 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-46843-5 (0-385-46843-1)
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: March 1, 1993 Price: $21.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-46844-2 (0-385-46844-X)
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: March 1, 1993 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-46845-9 (0-385-46845-8)
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: December 1, 1993 Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-47041-4 (0-385-47041-X)
Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
Please Note: This title is not available at...Read more >