The Art of Travel

Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $13.99

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the... Read more >

The Rebel
An Essay on Man in Revolt
Written by Albert Camus

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $9.99

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the... Read more >

Spiritual Bypassing
When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters
Written by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $13.95

Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs—is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any tradition, whether Christian commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide easy justification for practitioners to duck uncomfortable feelings in favor of more seemingly... Read more >

The Second Sex

Written by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2012
Price: $15.99

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness.  This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English...

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Zen in the Martial Arts

Written by Joe Hyams

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2010
Price: $7.99

"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum.

Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals... Read more >

The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Written by David Abram

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $11.99

Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This is a major work of ecological philosophy that startles... Read more >

Race Matters

Written by Cornel West

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2000
Price: $20.00

The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. In this sense, the problem of the twenty-first century remains the problem of the color line. --from the new... Read more >

The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >

Ruling Your World
Ancient Strategies For Modern Life
Written by Sakyong Mipham

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $11.99

You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place... Read more >

The History of Sexuality
An Introduction
Written by Michel Foucault

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $11.99

The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. Read more >