The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

Written by Mahatma Gandhi

Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $9.95

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict between two branches of an Indian ruling family. Framed as a conversation between Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and a general of... Read more >

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Why the Greeks Matter
Written by Thomas Cahill

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $12.99

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors... Read more >

Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $14.99

David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous—hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science—has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
 
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the...

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One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Written by Herbert Marcuse

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $21.00

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.


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From Socrates to Sartre
The Philosophic Quest
Written by T.Z. Lavine

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2011
Price: $7.99

A challenging new look at the great thinkers whose ides have shaped our civilization

From Socrates to Sartre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Plato’s Athens to today when the commanding... Read more >

For the Time Being

Written by Annie Dillard

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2010
Price: $11.99

National Bestseller

"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News

From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being... Read more >

Amazing Grace
The Nine Principles of Living in Natural Magic
Written by David Wolfe and Nick Good

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $11.95

It’s official; embraced by everyone from stars like Uma Thurman and Woody Harrelson to average people who are seeking the best health possible, raw food and the live food lifestyle is “in.” But making that transition can be a challenge. That’s where Amazing Grace comes in. Written by raw-foods authority David... Read more >

This Is It
and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
Written by Alan W. Watts

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $9.99

The six essays in this volume all deal with the relationship of mystical experience to ordinary life. The title essay on "cosmic consciousness" includes the author's account of his own ventures into this inward realm. "Instinct, Intelligence, and Anxiety" is a study of the paradoxes of self-consciousness; "Spiritually and Sensuality," a... Read more >

Basic Writings of Existentialism

Edited by Gordon Marino

Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99

Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino

Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into... Read more >

The Basic Works of Aristotle

Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $16.99

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 >