11 books in Philosophy - Religious
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Yoga: Discipline of Freedom
The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms. It is the core text for any study of meditative practice, revered for centuries for its brilliant analysis of mental states and of... Read more >
The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali
Written by Barbara Miller
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $15.00
Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms. It is the core text for any study of meditative practice, revered for centuries for its brilliant analysis of mental states and of... Read more >
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The Case for God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and... Read more >
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and... Read more >
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The Case for God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and... Read more >
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.95
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and... Read more >
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The Jewish Writings
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $17.95
Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people living in a land that was not... Read more >
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $17.95
Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people living in a land that was not... Read more >
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The Jewish Writings
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $17.95
Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about German Jewish history. After moving to France in 1933, she helped Jewish youth immigrate to Palestine. During her years in... Read more >
Written by Hannah Arendt
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2008
Price: $17.95
Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. As a young adult in Germany, she wrote about German Jewish history. After moving to France in 1933, she helped Jewish youth immigrate to Palestine. During her years in... Read more >
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Edited by Michael Stanley
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2003
Price: $14.95
Best known for his focus on the intuitive force within, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) also anticipated major modern discoveries in mineralogy, psychology, and anatomy. In this succinct and readable collection, Stanley expertly brings the most significant writings from Swedenborg's oeuvre together, showing readers a man who created a hieroglyphic language, reimagined the... Read more >
Edited by Michael Stanley
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2003
Price: $14.95
Best known for his focus on the intuitive force within, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) also anticipated major modern discoveries in mineralogy, psychology, and anatomy. In this succinct and readable collection, Stanley expertly brings the most significant writings from Swedenborg's oeuvre together, showing readers a man who created a hieroglyphic language, reimagined the... Read more >
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Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning
Written by Gary Eberle
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2002
Price: $22.95
In Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning, author Gary Eberle contemplates how humans' view of time has evolved throughout history, how we came to measure time, and why we feel especially starved for it now. Eberle seeks to rediscover a renewed sense of meaning in life through looking for ways... Read more >
Written by Gary Eberle
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2002
Price: $22.95
In Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning, author Gary Eberle contemplates how humans' view of time has evolved throughout history, how we came to measure time, and why we feel especially starved for it now. Eberle seeks to rediscover a renewed sense of meaning in life through looking for ways... Read more >
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Christ
A Crisis in the Life of God
Written by Jack Miles
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen... Read more >
A Crisis in the Life of God
Written by Jack Miles
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 5, 2002
Price: $15.00
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen... Read more >
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Meditations
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Translated by Gregory Hays
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $9.95
Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161–180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s... Read more >
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Translated by Gregory Hays
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $9.95
Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161–180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s... Read more >
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Orthodoxy
The Classic Account of a Remarkable Christian Experience
Written by G.K. Chesterton
Foreword by Philip Yancey
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2001
Price: $14.99
A Timeless Argument for Traditional Christianity
If you think orthodoxy is boring and predictable, think again. In this timeless classic, G. K. Chesterton, one of the literary giants of the twentieth century, presents a logical and personal reasoning for Christianity in model apologetic form. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a self-described pagan at... Read more >
The Classic Account of a Remarkable Christian Experience
Written by G.K. Chesterton
Foreword by Philip Yancey
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2001
Price: $14.99
A Timeless Argument for Traditional Christianity
If you think orthodoxy is boring and predictable, think again. In this timeless classic, G. K. Chesterton, one of the literary giants of the twentieth century, presents a logical and personal reasoning for Christianity in model apologetic form. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a self-described pagan at... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Monk and the Philosopher
A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Written by Jean Francois Revel and Matthieu Ricard
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $14.95
Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself... Read more >
A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Written by Jean Francois Revel and Matthieu Ricard
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $14.95
Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism -- not as a detached observer but by immersing himself... Read more >
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