The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $15.95
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between...
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Illusions
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Written by Richard Bach
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 10, 1989
Price: $7.99
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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The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $7.99
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher,
The Art of War is still perhaps the most...
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The Grand Design
Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $13.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhen and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? In this startling and lavishly illustrated book...
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The Book of Five Rings
Written by Miyamoto Musashi
Illustrated by Shiro Tsujimura
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $19.95
When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote
The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and incisive texts on strategic thinking ever to come...
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The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs...
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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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A Briefer History of Time
Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $22.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS
The science classic made more accessible
• More concise • Illustrated
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for years...
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $18.00
Introduction by Peter Gay
Translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann
Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche’s most important works, from his...
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