The Bhagavad-Gita
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1986
Price: $6.95
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the...
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The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: October 26, 1988
Price: $12.95
Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher,
The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it as been by military leaders since ancient times...
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2011
Price: $9.99
An exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
Written by Antonio Damasio
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.95
A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious.
Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he...
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The Way of Zen
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $9.99
The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up to the development of Zen Buddhism, which drew deeply from both traditions. It then goes on to paint a broad but insightful picture of Zen as it was and is practiced, both as a...
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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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A Briefer History of Time
Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
#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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Being Logical
A Guide to Good Thinking
Written by D.Q. McInerny
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $12.95
Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill–and it can properly be regarded as all three–logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human intelligence. In this concise, crisply readable book, distinguished...
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The Rebel
An Essay on Man in Revolt
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $14.95
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the...
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The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Package, 224 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.00
Compiled more than two thousand years ago, the
Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today. A study of the anatomy of forces in conflict, it has been discovered by modern business people, who understand the principles it contains are as...
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