Zen in the Martial Arts
Written by Joe Hyams
Format: Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $7.99
"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--
Samurai Maximum.
Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals...
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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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A Profound Mind
Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life
Written by H. H. the Dalai Lama
Afterword by Richard Gere
Edited by Nicholas Vreeland
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.00
For the first time for general readers, the Dalai Lama presents a comprehensive overview of the most important teaching of Buddhism.
Perhaps the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is its understanding of our core identity. The existence of the soul or self, which is central in different ways to Hinduism...
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Profit Over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 8, 1998
Price: $15.95
Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a...
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The Exquisite Risk
Daring to Live an Authentic Life
Written by Mark Nepo
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.00
In these fast-paced times, the exquisite risk facing each of us every day is to slow down and “still our own house” so that we may experience life rather than simply manage it. In
The Exquisite Risk, poet and teacher Mark Nepo encourages readers to become quiet enough and open enough...
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The Complete Book of Five Rings
Written by Miyamoto Musashi
Translated by Kenji Tokitsu
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $17.95
The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi’s classic
The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu. Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, and in this book he illuminates this...
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Becoming Animal
An Earthly Cosmology
Written by David Abram
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $16.95
A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Runner-up
David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by Science, has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with...
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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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The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $28.95
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
His...
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