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Angry Men, Passive Men
Understanding the Roots of Men's Anger and How to Move Beyond It
Written by Marvin Allen


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... Read more >

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The Basic Works of Aristotle

Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Introduction by C.D.C. Reeve


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Written by Karen Armstrong


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... Read more >
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The Poetics of Reverie

Written by Gaston Bachelard


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. Read more >

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How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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Irrational Man
A Study in Existential Philosophy
Written by William Barrett


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. Read more >
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The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche

Edited by Monroe Beardsley


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... Read more >

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In Praise of Nepotism
A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
Written by Adam Bellow


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... Read more >
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Lying
Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Written by Sissela Bok


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... Read more >
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Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall

Written by Sir Thomas Browne
Edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Ramie Targoff


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... Read more >
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The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Written by John Bunyan


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... Read more >
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The Fall

Written by Albert Camus


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... Read more >
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Lyrical and Critical Essays

Written by Albert Camus


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... Read more >
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The Rebel
An Essay on Man in Revolt
Written by Albert Camus


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... Read more >
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Thank You and Ok!
An American Zen Failure in Japan
Written by David Chadwick


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... Read more >

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Final Exam
A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Written by Pauline W. Chen


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... Read more >
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The Essential How to Know God
The Essence of the Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries
Written by Deepak Chopra


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... Read more >
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Why Is God Laughing?
The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
Written by Deepak Chopra
Foreword by Mike Myers


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Love & Death
My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow
Written by Forrest Church


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... Read more >
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Lives of Moral Leadership
Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
Written by Robert Coles


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... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audiobook download and an eBook.

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The Analects

Written by Confucius


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... Read more >

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History of Philosophy, Volume 1

Written by Frederick Copleston


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.

Please Note: This title is not available at the special... Read more >

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History of Philosophy, Volume 2

Written by Frederick Copleston


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.

Please Note: This title is not available at the... Read more >

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History of Philosophy, Volume 3

Written by Frederick Copleston


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.

Please Note: This title is not available at the... Read more >

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History of Philosophy, Volume 4

Written by Frederick Copleston


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 >
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