On Truth

Written by Harry G. Frankfurt

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $12.50

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.

Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true"... Read more >

President Lincoln

Written by William Lee Miller

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $16.95

In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's... Read more >

The Future of Liberalism

Written by Alan Wolfe

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $25.95

A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.

The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of...

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The Case for God

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and... Read more >

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.00

A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.

Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00

We spend most of our waking lives at work–in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern... Read more >

Tuesdays with Morrie

Written by Mitch Albom

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2007
Price: $13.99

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The Basic Works of Aristotle

Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $21.95

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 >

Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Introduction by Peter Gay

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $18.00

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 first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of... Read more >

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.95

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 of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of... Read more >