Phi
A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Written by Giulio Tononi

Format: eBook, 380 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.99

This title is printed in full color throughout.

From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of...

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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $14.99

Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
 
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects... Read more >

Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are, 15th Anniversary Edition

Written by Bob Frissell

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $12.95

Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are is an account of humankind’s function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. Author Bob Frissell gives a compelling account of our planetary ascent into higher consciousness, presenting a big-screen view of the Earth through the... Read more >

How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass
A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions
Written by Christopher Dicarlo

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.99

What can I know? What am I? Why am I here? How should I behave? What is to come of me? The way you answer these questions will tell you a lot about yourself. And if you ask others these questions, their answers will tell you a good deal about them... 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 >

Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

Format: eBook, 864 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Price: $13.99

Introduction by Peter Gay
Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann
Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze
 
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche’s most important works, from his...

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Plato for Everyone

Written by Aviezer Tucker

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $11.99

How do we decide what is good and bad? What is virtue? What constitutes a meaningful life? These are some of the intractable, still-relevant questions that the ancient Greek philosopher Plato grappled with 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately, Plato's dialogues, featuring his famous mentor Socrates, often prove difficult to understand for many... 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 >

Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Written by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $24.95

The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
 
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and... 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 >