Religion for Atheists
A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion—without having to believe in any of it.
He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the...
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The Rebel
An Essay on Man in Revolt
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $14.95
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...
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Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
Written by Antonio Damasio
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95
A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.
Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he...
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The Prince
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $8.00
A new translation by Peter Constantine Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli The first modern treatise of political philosophy,
The Prince is one of the world’s most influential and widely read books. Machiavelli reveals nothing less than the secrets of power: how to gain it, how to wield it, and how to...
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The Art of Travel
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $16.00
Any Baedeker will tell us
where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us
how and
why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to
How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the...
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Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
Written by Stephen Cope
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $17.00
Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision...
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Assholes
A Theory
Written by Aaron James
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $12.99
In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary.
What does it mean for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people...
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