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... Read more >

Beyond Good & Evil
Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 17, 1989
Price: $14.95

Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzche's thought and style. With an inclusive index of subjects and persons. Read more >

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... Read more >

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Written by Chris Hedges

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $15.00

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has... Read more >

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... Read more >

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... Read more >

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... Read more >

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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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... Read more >

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 >