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... Read more >

Tao
The Watercourse Way
Written by Alan W. Watts

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1977
Price: $15.00

Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts. Read more >

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... Read more >

This Is It
and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
Written by Alan W. Watts

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1973
Price: $11.00

The six essays in this volume all deal with the relationship of mystical experience to ordinary life. The title essay on "cosmic consciousness" includes the author's account of his own ventures into this inward realm. "Instinct, Intelligence, and Anxiety" is a study of the paradoxes of self-consciousness; "Spiritually and Sensuality," a... Read more >

From Socrates to Sartre
The Philosophic Quest
Written by T.Z. Lavine

Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1985
Price: $7.99

A challenging new look at the great thinkers whose ides have shaped our civilization

From Socrates to Sartre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Plato’s Athens to today when the commanding... Read more >

The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >

Tao Te Ching
A New Translation
Written by Lao Tzu
Translated by William Scott Wilson

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $19.95

Renowned translator William Scott Wilson has rendered Lao Tzu's classic in the most authentic way possible, using both the ancient text and the even older Great Seal script used during Lao Tzu's time. The result is a new and nuanced translation, accompanied by Chinese ink paintings and ancillary material. Wilson includes... Read more >

The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $30.00

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 >

Shambhala
The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Written by Chogyam Trungpa

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $7.99

<p style="line-height: 150%;"> There is a basic human wisdom that can help solve the world’s problems. It doesn’t belong to any one culture or region or religious tradition—though it can be found in many of them throughout history. It’s what Chögyam Trungpa called the sacred path of the warrior. The sacred... Read more >

The Basic Works of Aristotle

Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Introduction by C.D.C. Reeve

Format: Trade Paperback, 1520 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $21.95

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >