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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: $26.95
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: $26.95
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 Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $16.95
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $16.95
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $6.99
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
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $6.99
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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unabridged audio CD.
The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.00
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: $14.00
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 >
Awakening the Buddha Within
Written by Lama Surya Das
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1998
Price: $15.95
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of... Read more >
Written by Lama Surya Das
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1998
Price: $15.95
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of... Read more >
Also available as an audiobook download.
Buddhism Plain and Simple
Written by Steve Hagen
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $10.95
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Written by Steve Hagen
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $10.95
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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: $14.95
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: $14.95
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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trade paperback.
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: $16.95
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: $16.95
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 >
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hardcover.
The Myth of Sisyphus
And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $12.95
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And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $12.95
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Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Written by Mitch Albom
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 18, 1997
Price: $22.95
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
For Mitch Albom, that person was... Read more >
An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Written by Mitch Albom
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: August 18, 1997
Price: $22.95
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
For Mitch Albom, that person was... Read more >
