Philosophy:

The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Written by Etienne Gilson

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $11.99

Etienne Gilson explains the foundations of St. Thomas Aquinas's thoughts and Christian philosophy.

Gilson is also the author of History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Read more >

Religion for Atheists
A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Written by Alain De Botton

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion—without having to believe in any of it.

He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the...

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All the World an Icon
Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings
Written by Tom Cheetham

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $18.95

All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal "quartet" of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear. Cheetham's books... Read more >

All the World an Icon
Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings
Written by Tom Cheetham

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $14.95

All the World an Icon is the fourth book in an informal "quartet" of works by Tom Cheetham on the spirituality of Henry Corbin, a major twentieth-century scholar of Sufism and colleague of C. G. Jung, whose influence on contemporary religion and the humanities is beginning to become clear. Cheetham's books... Read more >

God in Pain
Inversions of Apocalypse
Written by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $19.95

A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian... Read more >

God in Pain
Inversions of Apocalypse
Written by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $19.95

A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian... Read more >

Self-Reliance
The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living
Edited by Richard Whelan

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2012
Price: $9.99

A finely honed abridgement of Emerson's principal essays with an introduction that clarifies the essence of Emerson's ideas and establishes their relevance to our own troubled era. This is the first truly accessible edition of Emerson's work, revealing him to be one of America's wisest teachers. Read more >

Religion for Atheists
A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Written by Alain De Botton

Format: Hardcover
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $26.95

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important...

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Religion for Atheists
A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important...

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In Bad Faith
What's Wrong With the Opium of the People
Written by Andrew Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 226 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $21.00

For readers interested in political theory and political activism, as well as anyone puzzled by the persistence of theistic conviction in the modern world. In light of rational standards for belief acceptance that are universally acknowledged in enlightened circles, theistic convictions are deeply problematic. Thus it is not surprising that some... Read more >

The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Written by Patrick Harpur

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $16.99

In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life’s most difficult questions—the meaning of life, the nature of self, and the existence of an afterlife—can be met by a visionary tradition that runs through Western culture, from Greek philosophy and Renaissance alchemy to Romantic poetry... Read more >

The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Written by Patrick Harpur

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $17.95

In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life’s most difficult questions—the meaning of life, the nature of self, and the existence of an afterlife—can be met by a visionary tradition that runs through Western culture, from Greek philosophy and Renaissance alchemy to Romantic poetry... Read more >

In Bad Faith
What's Wrong With The Opium Of The People
Written by Andrew Levine

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2011
Price: $11.99

For readers interested in political theory and political activism, as well as anyone puzzled by the persistence of theistic conviction in the modern world. In light of rational standards for belief acceptance that are universally acknowledged in enlightened circles, theistic convictions are deeply problematic. Thus it is not surprising that some... Read more >

Sand and Foam
A Book of Aphorisms
Written by Kahlil Gibran

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $9.99

A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.


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Christ
A Crisis in the Life of God
Written by Jack Miles

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $12.99

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 >

The Monk and the Philosopher
A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Written by Jean Francois Revel and Matthieu Ricard

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $14.99

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 >

God
A Biography
Written by Jack Miles
Read by Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $30.00

What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit... Read more >

The Case for God

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.95

A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
 
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >

Yoga: Discipline of Freedom
The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali
Written by Barbara Miller

Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $13.99

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 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 >

The Case for God

Written by Karen Armstrong

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.99

A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
 
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind... Read more >

Testament
Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier
Written by Jean Meslier

Format: Hardcover, 595 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00

"Know, then, my friends, that everything that is recited and practiced in the world for the cult and adoration of gods is nothing but errors, abuses, illusions, and impostures. All the laws and orders that are issued in the name and authority of God or the gods are really only human... Read more >

The Jewish Writings

Written by Hannah Arendt

Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $18.99

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 >

What Is Man?
And Other Irreverent Essays
Written by Mark Twain

Format: Trade Paperback, 229 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2009
Price: $16.95

Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of nineteenth-century American offshoot of Voltaire. Like his French counterpart, he expressed a deeply felt indignation at religious hypocrisy and obscurantism, and peppered his satirical writings, especially in his later years, with stinging wit and iconoclastic fervor.
This unique collection assembles writings in... Read more >

On God
An Uncommon Conversation
Written by Norman Mailer
As told to Michael Lennon

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00

The final book from Norman Mailer, towering figure of American literature, in which he offers his concept of the nature of God

“I feel no attachment, whatsoever, to organized religion” wrote Norman Mailer. “I see God, rather, as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed... Read more >