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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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
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
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...
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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
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...
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