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The Social Construction of Reality
The Social Construction of Reality
Written by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385058988
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The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Written by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 11, 1967
Price: $15.95

This book reformulates the sociological  subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge.  Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as  well false consciousness, propaganda, science and  art. Read more >
The Way of Zen
The Way of Zen
Written by Alan W. Watts
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ISBN: 9780307784346
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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... Read more >
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A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time
Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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ISBN: 9780307417848
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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

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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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Self Comes to Mind
Self Comes to Mind
Written by Antonio Damasio
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ISBN: 9780307474957
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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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Shambhala
Shambhala
Written by Chogyam Trungpa
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ISBN: 9781590304518
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Shambhala
The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Written by Chogyam Trungpa


Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $7.99

<p style="line-height: 150%;"> There is a basic human wisdom that can help solve the world’s problems. It doesn’t belong to any one culture or region or religious tradition—though it can be found in many of them throughout history. It’s what Chögyam Trungpa called the sacred path of the warrior. The sacred... Read more >
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The Second Sex
The Second Sex
Written by Simone de Beauvoir, Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
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ISBN: 9780307814531
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The Second Sex

Written by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier


Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2012
Price: $15.99

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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The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali
Written by Chip Hartranft
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ISBN: 9781590300237
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The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali
A New Translation with Commentary
Written by Chip Hartranft


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $14.95

In just 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy spells out succinctly how the mind works, and how it is possible to use the mind to attain liberation. Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide... Read more >
The Tao of Physics
The Tao of Physics
Written by Fritjof Capra
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ISBN: 9781590308356
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The Tao of Physics
An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Written by Fritjof Capra


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $17.95

Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time—way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that has gone on to become a classic. It includes a new preface by the... Read more >
How to Live
How to Live
Written by Sarah Bakewell
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ISBN: 9781590514832
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How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Written by Sarah Bakewell


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $16.95

Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance... Read more >
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The Gay Science
The Gay Science
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche, Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780394719856
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The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann


Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1974
Price: $13.00

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated... Read more >
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