Philosophy:

Hating Perfection (Revised Edition)
A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World
Written by John F. Williams

Format: eBook, 396 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $11.99

The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence.

In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This... Read more >

Hating Perfection (Revised Edition)
A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World
Written by John F. Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 396 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $19.99

The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence. 

In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This... Read more >

The Consolations of Philosophy

Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $11.99

From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.

Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all... Read more >

The Happy Life
The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
Written by David Malouf

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $19.95

By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-)

“Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular moment in history, privileged, industrialized...

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The Happy Life
The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
Written by David Malouf

Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $9.99

By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-)

“Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular moment in history, privileged, industrialized...

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Meaning and Value in a Secular Age
Why Eupraxsophy Matters - The Writings of Paul Kurtz
Edited by Nathan Bupp

Format: Trade Paperback, 361 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $19.00

The secular age has confronted human beings with a fundamental challenge. While the naturalistic worldview rooted in science has persuasively shown that traditional religious conceptions of the universe are unsustainable, it has so far offered no compelling secular narratives to replace the religious narratives so entrenched in civilization. In the absence... Read more >

Meaning and Value in a Secular Age
Why Eupraxsophy Matters - The Writings of Paul Kurtz
Written by Paul Kurtz
Edited by Nathan Bupp

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $11.99

The secular age has confronted human beings with a fundamental challenge. While the naturalistic worldview rooted in science has persuasively shown that traditional religious conceptions of the universe are unsustainable, it has so far offered no compelling secular narratives to replace the religious narratives so entrenched in civilization. In the absence... Read more >

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Written by Daniel Kahneman
Read by Patrick Egan

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $50.00

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own... Read more >

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Written by Daniel Kahneman
Read by Patrick Egan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $24.00

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own... Read more >

Who Am I?
And If So, How Many?
Written by Richard David Precht
Translated by Shelley Frisch

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $16.00

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
 
What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book” (Tagesanzeiger Zürich), has traveled the globe searching for answers—and his odyssey has become one of the most... Read more >

Who Am I?
And If So, How Many?
Written by Richard David Precht
Translated by Shelley Frisch

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $13.99

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
 
What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book” (Tagesanzeiger Zürich), has traveled the globe searching for answers—and his odyssey has become one of the most... Read more >

A Humanist Funeral Service and Celebration

Written by Corliss Lamont

Format: Trade Paperback, 66 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $13.00

First published in 1940, this book has been helpful for over half a century to people not comfortable with the religious format of typical funeral services. The author, renowned humanist Corliss Lamont, last revised the text in 1977. Now, from her own experience as a humanist chaplain, Beth K. Lamont, widow... Read more >

Walden

Written by Henry David Thoreau
Read by Lloyd James
Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $18.00

In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books... Read more >

Counterrevolution & Revolt

Written by Herbert Marcuse

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $17.00

In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is... Read more >

The Code for Global Ethics
Ten Humanist Principles
Written by Rodrigue Tremblay

Format: Hardcover, 300 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $27.00

Humanists have long contended that morality is a strictly human concern and should be independent of religious creeds and dogma. This principle was clearly articulated in the two Humanist Manifestos issued in the mid-twentieth century and in Humanist Manifesto 2000, which appeared at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Now this... Read more >

Within Reason
Rationality and Human Behavior
Written by Donald Calne

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2010
Price: $11.99

It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous?

In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B... Read more >

A Wealth of Insights
Humanist Thought Since the Enlightenment
Written by Bill Cooke

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2009
Price: $29.99

Humanism is a relatively young word, coined only in 1808, and yet it is the most transcultural mode of thought ever conceived. Centered on the plight of all humans in the here and now and committed to reason, free thought, and producing a better, more democratic world, humanism encompasses positive and... Read more >

Science, Culture, and Free Spirits
A Study of Nietzsche's Human, All-Too-Human
Written by Jonathan R. Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback, 305 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $36.95

In this insightful study, Nietzsche specialist Jonathan R. Cohen argues that Human, All-Too-Human (1878) represents the crucial watershed for Nietzsche’s philosophical development, the moment at which he "becomes who he is." Here Nietzsche breaks his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner by offering acute criticisms, which often are diametric reversals of... Read more >

Nonviolence
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Foreword by Dalai Lama

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $11.99

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why... Read more >

Human, All Too Human

Written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Format: Trade Paperback, 536 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2008
Price: $15.99

Human, All Too Human (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner, and establishes the overall... Read more >

Forbidden Fruit
The Ethics of Secularism
Written by Paul Kurtz

Format: Trade Paperback, 326 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $17.99

Fundamentalists from all religious persuasions deny the possibility of morality without belief in God. Yet belief in God is no guarantee of moral virtue - as the evils committed in the name of religion, past and present, have shown. Are there ethical, nonreligious choices that will work for a world in... Read more >

Walden

Written by Henry David Thoreau and Terry Tempest Williams
Foreword by Michael McCurdy

Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.95

In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books... Read more >

Nonviolence
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Foreword by Dalai Lama

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $15.00

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why... Read more >

What Is Secular Humanism?

Written by Paul Kurtz

Format: Trade Paperback, 42 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $9.99

Are there any ethical values and principles that nonreligious individuals can live by? In a time when many have forsaken otherworldly religions, what does human life mean? What is its significance? Secular humanism attempts to answer these questions in a way that resonates with human aspirations and the findings of science... Read more >

Humanism
An Introduction
Written by Jim Herrick

Format: Trade Paperback, 105 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2005
Price: $21.99

Humanism is a philosophy that emphasizes the value of human life in all its creative potential within a secular context. Humanism is skeptical of religious beliefs and relies on science as the basis for understanding the universe. Although humanism has become most fully developed in the West, its origins lie throughout... Read more >