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The Case for God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Hardcover, 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 >
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Hardcover, 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 >
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The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $28.00
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $28.00
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >
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The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $7.99
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most... Read more >
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $7.99
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most... Read more >
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The Book of Five Rings
Written by Miyamoto Musashi
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $6.99
The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes... Read more >
Written by Miyamoto Musashi
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $6.99
The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes... Read more >
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The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.95
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between... Read more >
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.95
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between... Read more >
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The Art of War
Complete Text and Commentaries
Written by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $24.95
Sun Tzu's Art of War , compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today. Now, this unique volume brings together the essential versions of Sun Tzu's text... Read more >
Complete Text and Commentaries
Written by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $24.95
Sun Tzu's Art of War , compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today. Now, this unique volume brings together the essential versions of Sun Tzu's text... Read more >
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The Power of Myth
Written by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1991
Price: $15.00
Finally available in a popularly priced, non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal for the college market and general reader alike, this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. Read more >
Written by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1991
Price: $15.00
Finally available in a popularly priced, non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal for the college market and general reader alike, this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. Read more >
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The Myth of Sisyphus
And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
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And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
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The Bhagavad-Gita
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the... Read more >
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
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 >
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
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 >
