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The Circle of Fire
The Metaphysics of Yoga
Written by P.J. Mazumdar
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2009
Price: $22.95
The Circle of Fire examines the eternal metaphysical questions “What is God?” and “What is the purpose of life?” The book discusses the answers to these questions given by Western science and different schools of Indian thought, specifically detailing the answers to be found in India's two most developed atheistic traditions... Read more >
The Metaphysics of Yoga
Written by P.J. Mazumdar
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2009
Price: $22.95
The Circle of Fire examines the eternal metaphysical questions “What is God?” and “What is the purpose of life?” The book discusses the answers to these questions given by Western science and different schools of Indian thought, specifically detailing the answers to be found in India's two most developed atheistic traditions... Read more >
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Where Two Worlds Touch: Spiritual Rites of Passage
Written by Gloria Karpinski
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $19.00
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Written by Gloria Karpinski
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $19.00
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The Cracking Tower
A Strategy for Transcending 2012
Written by Jim DeKorne
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.95
End-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan “long count” calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers an arsenal of strategies to turn... Read more >
A Strategy for Transcending 2012
Written by Jim DeKorne
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.95
End-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan “long count” calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers an arsenal of strategies to turn... Read more >
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became... Read more >
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Selected Dialogues of Plato
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $14.00
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key
dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest... Read more >
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $14.00
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key
dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest... Read more >
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The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Package, 224 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.00
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Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Package, 224 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.00
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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
Format: Package, 192 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.00
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A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
Format: Package, 192 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.00
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Left in Dark Times
A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what... Read more >
A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what... Read more >
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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 Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.95
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of... Read more >
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $15.95
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of... Read more >
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Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are, 15th Anniversary Edition
Written by Bob Frissell
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $17.95
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are is an account of humankind’s function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. Author Bob Frissell gives a compelling account of our planetary ascent into higher consciousness, presenting a big-screen view of the Earth through the... Read more >
Written by Bob Frissell
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $17.95
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are is an account of humankind’s function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. Author Bob Frissell gives a compelling account of our planetary ascent into higher consciousness, presenting a big-screen view of the Earth through the... 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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Meditations
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $20.00
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s insights and advice—on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others—have made... Read more >
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $20.00
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s insights and advice—on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others—have made... Read more >
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Awakening the Buddha Within
Eight Steps to Enlightenment
Written by Lama Surya Das
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $16.50
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of... Read more >
Eight Steps to Enlightenment
Written by Lama Surya Das
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $16.50
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of... Read more >
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Conversations with Elie Wiesel
Written by Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $12.00
Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.
In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $12.00
Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on life’s timeless questions.
In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffner—American historian, noted public television moderator/producer, and Rutgers University professor—Elie Wiesel covers... Read more >
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $21.95
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >
Written by Aristotle
Edited by Richard McKeon
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $21.95
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the... Read more >
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Ayn Rand For Beginners
Written by Andrew Bernstein
Illustrated by Owen Brozman
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $14.99
Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant number of detractors. Her novels and her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism have acquired a world-wide following. They have also created legions of readers who are hungry for... Read more >
Written by Andrew Bernstein
Illustrated by Owen Brozman
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $14.99
Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant number of detractors. Her novels and her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism have acquired a world-wide following. They have also created legions of readers who are hungry for... Read more >
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Zinn For Beginners
Written by David Cogswell
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $14.99
Zinn For Beginners describes the life and work of the most vital historian of our time. Howard Zinn led a revolution in the writing of history by telling the story not from the standpoint of conquerors and rulers, but from the side of the ordinary people who always bear the brunt... Read more >
Written by David Cogswell
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $14.99
Zinn For Beginners describes the life and work of the most vital historian of our time. Howard Zinn led a revolution in the writing of history by telling the story not from the standpoint of conquerors and rulers, but from the side of the ordinary people who always bear the brunt... Read more >
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $18.00
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of... Read more >
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 5, 2009
Price: $18.00
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of... Read more >
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Simple Guides Chinese Philosophy
Written by Peter Nancarrow
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $10.95
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition
• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization
• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time
• to recognize traditional concepts that continue to... Read more >
Written by Peter Nancarrow
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $10.95
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition
• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization
• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time
• to recognize traditional concepts that continue to... Read more >
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Simple Guides Greek Philosophy
Written by Sophia Macdonald
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $10.95
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
• to appreciate the revolution in thinking brought about by the Ancient Greek philosophers, who sought to make sense of the world through analysis, reasoning and argument
• to recognize the key ideas of the most significant philosophers and their contribution to Western thought
• to learn about the... Read more >
Written by Sophia Macdonald
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $10.95
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
• to appreciate the revolution in thinking brought about by the Ancient Greek philosophers, who sought to make sense of the world through analysis, reasoning and argument
• to recognize the key ideas of the most significant philosophers and their contribution to Western thought
• to learn about the... Read more >
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The Tao of Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Richard Grossman
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Tao of Emerson strikingly brings together two of the most influential voices in the history of letters: Lao Tse, the sixth-century B.C. Chinese mystic, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American transcendentalist known to many as “the sage of Concord.”
By adroitly juxtaposing on facing pages the texts of Lao Tse’s... Read more >
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Richard Grossman
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Tao of Emerson strikingly brings together two of the most influential voices in the history of letters: Lao Tse, the sixth-century B.C. Chinese mystic, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American transcendentalist known to many as “the sage of Concord.”
By adroitly juxtaposing on facing pages the texts of Lao Tse’s... Read more >
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The Essential Writings of Machiavelli
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $17.95
FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a comprehensive collection that shows the true depth and breadth of a great Renaissance thinker. Refreshingly accessible, these superb new translations are faithful to Machiavelli’s original, beautifully crafted writings.
The volume features essays that appear in English for the... Read more >
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The Z¿rau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $15.95
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso.
Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some narratives, some single images, some parables. These... Read more >
Written by Franz Kafka
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $15.95
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso.
Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some narratives, some single images, some parables. These... Read more >
