Illuminations
Essays and Reflections
Written by Walter Benjamin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 13, 1969
Price: $16.00
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century.
Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The...
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Ideas And Opinions
Written by Albert Einstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 6, 1995
Price: $15.00
A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human...
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Illusions
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Written by Richard Bach
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $15.00
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former...
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Philosophy Made Simple
Written by Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1993
Price: $13.99
For almost four decades,
Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the
Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of skills, information, and experience, with revised and updated editions of bestselling titles, plus...
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Phi
A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Written by Giulio Tononi
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
This title is printed in full color throughout.
From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of...
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The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2010
Price: $18.00
By the author of the modern classic
The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either...
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Teachings of the Buddha
Edited by Jack Kornfield
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $6.99
This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses from Tibetan masters on the...
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The Art of Deception
An Introduction to Critical Thinking
Written by Nicolas Capaldi
Format: Trade Paperback, 277 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $22.99
Can you tell when you're being deceived?
This classic work on critical thinking — now fully updated and revised — uses a novel approach to teach the basics of informal logic. On the assumption that "it takes one to know one," the authors have written the book from the point of view...
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The Book of Five Rings
A Graphic Novel
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Miyamoto Musashi
Illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.95
This graphic novel version of
The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a strategic mind. With evocative drawings and a distilled...
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The Grand Design
Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Read by Steve West
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.00
THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why...
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