Become What You Are
Expanded Edition
Written by Alan W. Watts

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $14.95

"Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever. . . . You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal... 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 >

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 >

A Profound Mind
Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life
Written by H. H. the Dalai Lama
Afterword by Richard Gere
Edited by Nicholas Vreeland

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.00

For the first time for general readers, the Dalai Lama presents a comprehensive overview of the most important teaching of Buddhism.
 
Perhaps the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is its understanding of our core identity.  The existence of the soul or self, which is central in different ways to Hinduism... Read more >

The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Written by Jonathan Haidt

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $28.95

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
 
His...

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The Myth of Sisyphus
And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $9.99

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Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

Written by Stephen Cope

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $17.00

Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision... Read more >

The Book of Five Rings
A Graphic Novel
Written by Sean Michael Wilson and Miyamoto Musashi
Illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada
Translated by William Scott Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.95

This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a strategic mind. With evocative drawings and a distilled... Read more >

Zen in the Martial Arts

Written by Joe Hyams

Format: Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1982
Price: $7.99

"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum.

Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals... 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 >