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Contemporary Ethical Issues
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
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Contemporary Ethical Issues
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $21.00
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
A Personalist Perspective (Third Edition)
Written by Walter G. Jeffko
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $21.00
Now in a newly revised third edition, this explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalist perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many publications spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes... Read more >
Philosophy for a Better World
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.99
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.99
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
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Philosophy for a Better World
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: Trade Paperback, 290 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $23.00
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
Written by Floris Van Den Berg
Format: Trade Paperback, 290 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $23.00
After reading this book, the world won't look the same. Imagine yourself confined to a wheelchair; or living within the severely constricted lifestyle options of a woman in Saudi Arabia; or being a homosexual in a homophobic society; or a coffee farmer in Ethiopia; or a cow on a factory farm... Read more >
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We Have Only This Life to Live
The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Edited by Adrian van den Hoven and Ronald Aronson
Introduction by Ronald Aronson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay was an essentially dramatic form, the record... Read more >
The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Edited by Adrian van den Hoven and Ronald Aronson
Introduction by Ronald Aronson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay was an essentially dramatic form, the record... Read more >
Philosophical Pearls of the Shakespearean Deep
Written by Farhang Zabeeh
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2013
Price: $14.99
Offers many fresh insights that will give even longtime readers of Shakespeare a new appreciation of the great master.
Scholars have long debated the extent of Shakespeare's education. Although his friend and admirer Ben Jonson said of him, "thou hadst small Latine and lesse Greek," Shakespeare's plays reveal a wide familiarity with... Read more >
Written by Farhang Zabeeh
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2013
Price: $14.99
Offers many fresh insights that will give even longtime readers of Shakespeare a new appreciation of the great master.
Scholars have long debated the extent of Shakespeare's education. Although his friend and admirer Ben Jonson said of him, "thou hadst small Latine and lesse Greek," Shakespeare's plays reveal a wide familiarity with... Read more >
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The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell... Read more >
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell... Read more >
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95
One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell... Read more >
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If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him
The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
Written by Sheldon Kopp
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $7.99
Therapists do not and cannot give answers. Explore the true nature of the therapeutic relationship, and realize that the guru is no Buddha. He is just another human struggling. Understanding the shape of your own personal ills will lead you on your journey to recovery. Sheldon Kopp has a realistic approach... Read more >
The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
Written by Sheldon Kopp
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $7.99
Therapists do not and cannot give answers. Explore the true nature of the therapeutic relationship, and realize that the guru is no Buddha. He is just another human struggling. Understanding the shape of your own personal ills will lead you on your journey to recovery. Sheldon Kopp has a realistic approach... Read more >
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The 36 Strategies of the Martial Arts
The Classic Chinese Guide for Success in War, Business, and Life
Written by Hiroshi Moriya
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $18.95
Here is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims on strategy, battlefield tactics, and deception—in the spirit of such classics as The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings—made fresh and relevant with contemporary examples and explanation. The origin of The 36 Strategies of the Martial Arts is unknown; however... Read more >
The Classic Chinese Guide for Success in War, Business, and Life
Written by Hiroshi Moriya
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $18.95
Here is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims on strategy, battlefield tactics, and deception—in the spirit of such classics as The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings—made fresh and relevant with contemporary examples and explanation. The origin of The 36 Strategies of the Martial Arts is unknown; however... Read more >
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 >
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 >
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trade paperback.
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
Putting Philosophy to Work
Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life (Expanded Edition)
Written by Susan Haack
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and... Read more >
Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life (Expanded Edition)
Written by Susan Haack
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and... Read more >
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Putting Philosophy to Work
Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life (Expanded Edition)
Written by Susan Haack
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $23.00
This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and... Read more >
Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life (Expanded Edition)
Written by Susan Haack
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $23.00
This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and... Read more >
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The Spirit of Noh
A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden
Written by Zeami
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $17.95
The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats. The actor and playwright Zeami (1363–1443) is the most celebrated figure in the history of Noh, with his numerous outstanding... Read more >
A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden
Written by Zeami
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $17.95
The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats. The actor and playwright Zeami (1363–1443) is the most celebrated figure in the history of Noh, with his numerous outstanding... Read more >
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Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Format: Hardcover, 1280 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $100.00
This monumental work is considered to be one of the most profound expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on paper, and also the outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of Zen’s Soto school.
Kazuaki Tanahashi and a team of... Read more >
Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Format: Hardcover, 1280 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $100.00
This monumental work is considered to be one of the most profound expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on paper, and also the outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of Zen’s Soto school.
Kazuaki Tanahashi and a team of... Read more >
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The Shambhala Principle
Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
Written by Sakyong Mipham
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $22.00
One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles of Shambhala, or the path to happiness, set down by his legendary father, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Dear Reader,
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future... Read more >
Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
Written by Sakyong Mipham
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $22.00
One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles of Shambhala, or the path to happiness, set down by his legendary father, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Dear Reader,
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future... Read more >
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The Shambhala Principle
Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
Written by Sakyong Mipham
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles of Shambhala, or the path to happiness, set down by his legendary father, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Dear Reader,
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future... Read more >
Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
Written by Sakyong Mipham
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles of Shambhala, or the path to happiness, set down by his legendary father, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Dear Reader,
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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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 >
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 >
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The Essential Dogen
Writings of the Great Zen Master
Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $14.00
Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, is one of the greatest religious, philosophical, and literary geniuses of Japan. His writings have been studied by Zen students for centuries, particularly his masterwork, Shobo Genzo or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. This is the first book to... Read more >
Writings of the Great Zen Master
Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $14.00
Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, is one of the greatest religious, philosophical, and literary geniuses of Japan. His writings have been studied by Zen students for centuries, particularly his masterwork, Shobo Genzo or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. This is the first book to... Read more >
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America the Philosophical
Written by Carlin Romano
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.00
Written by Carlin Romano
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.00
This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate.
With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States...
The Turbulent Universe
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $11.99
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $11.99
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
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The Turbulent Universe
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
Written by Paul Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
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The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
