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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Introduction by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $16.95
Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry,
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects...
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The Art of War
Complete Text and Commentaries
Written by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $24.95
Sun Tzu's
Art of War, compiled more than two thousand years ago, is a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict. It is perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today. Now, this unique volume brings together the essential versions of Sun Tzu's text, along...
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The Poetics of Space
Written by Gaston Bachelard
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1994
Price: $16.00
A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of...
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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...
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The Second Sex
Written by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $17.95
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English...
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Hagakure
The Book of the Samurai
Written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $19.95
Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of
Hagakure, a series of texts written by an eighteenth-century samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It is a window into the samurai mind, illuminating the concept of
bushido (the Way of the Warrior), which dictated how samurai were expected to behave, conduct...
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