Bullspotting
Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation
Written by Loren Collins
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $11.99
At a time when average citizens are bombarded with false information every day, this entertaining book will prove to be not only a great read but also an indispensable resource. Birthers. Truthers. Moon hoaxers. Antivaxxers. Holocaust deniers. Young Earth creationists. These are just a few of the purveyors of misinformation who...
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The Republic
The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
Written by Plato
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $5.99
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote
The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and its ruler. All subsequent...
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Bullspotting
Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation
Written by Loren Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 267 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $19.00
At a time when average citizens are bombarded with false information every day, this entertaining book will prove to be not only a great read but also an indispensable resource. Birthers. Truthers. Moon hoaxers. Antivaxxers. Holocaust deniers. Young Earth creationists. These are just a few of the purveyors of misinformation who...
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The Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year —Austin American-Statesman
Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet"
In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces—essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism—which also doubles as a novelist’s...
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A Profound Mind
Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life
Written by H. H. the Dalai Lama
Afterword by Richard Gere
Edited by Nicholas Vreeland
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.00
For the first time for general readers, the Dalai Lama presents a comprehensive overview of the most important teaching of Buddhism.
Perhaps the main difference between Buddhism and other religions is its understanding of our core identity. The existence of the soul or self, which is central in different ways to Hinduism...
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The Rebel
An Essay on Man in Revolt
Written by Albert Camus
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $9.99
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the...
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Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness
Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
Edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $18.95
A diverse group of authors journey into the fringes of human consciousness, tackling psychic and paranormal phenomena, lucid dreaming, synchronistic encounters, and more. Collected from the online magazine Reality Sandwich, these essays explore regions of the mind often traversed by shamans, mystics, and visionary artists; adjacent and contiguous to our normal...
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Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness
Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
Edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $12.95
A diverse group of authors journey into the fringes of human consciousness, tackling psychic and paranormal phenomena, lucid dreaming, synchronistic encounters, and more. Collected from the online magazine Reality Sandwich, these essays explore regions of the mind often traversed by shamans, mystics, and visionary artists; adjacent and contiguous to our normal...
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The Essential Crazy Wisdom
Written by Wes Nisker
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $9.99
Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover the madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers in the abridged, better-than-ever version of our best-selling cult classic. THE ESSENTIAL CRAZY WISDOM delivers the most significant, most lunatic, and most compelling insights of the ages. Scoop...
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Social and Political Philosophy
Readings From Plato to Gandhi
Written by John Somerville and Ronald Santoni
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $11.99
An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and others.
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El arte de la guerra (The Art of War)
Written by Sun Tzu
Translated by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $14.95
Recopilado más de dos mil años atrás por un misterioso guerrero filósofo,
El arte de la guerra sigue siendo, quizás, hoy en día, el libro de estrategia más prestigioso e influyente del mundo, estudiado en Asia por políticos modernos y ejecutivos con el mismo entusiasmo con el que fuera consultado en...
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Breve historia de todas las cosas (A Brief History of Everything)
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback, 456 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $22.95
Breve historia de todas las cosas es una excursión extraordinaria a través del Kosmos. En un viaje para cortar el aliento, desde el Big Bang hasta el mundo postmoderno en que vivimos, Ken Wilber analiza el universo y nuestro lugar en él –y nos brinda una crónica accesible y entretenida de...
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One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Written by Herbert Marcuse
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $21.00
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.
From the Trade Paperback edition....
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Political Evil
What It Is and How to Combat It
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $16.00
A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.
In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush...
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Dark Pool of Light, Volume One
The Neuroscience, Evolution, and Ontology of Consciousness
Written by Richard Grossinger
Foreword by Jeffrey J. Kripal and Nick Herbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $16.95
In books like
Embryogenesis and
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, author Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects of biological embryology and the esoteric process of human consciousness becoming embodied ("The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body"). In
Dark Pool of Light, his latest creation, Grossinger weaves neuroscience-based...
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Dark Pool of Light, Volume One
The Neuroscience, Evolution, and Ontology of Consciousness
Written by Richard Grossinger
Foreword by Jeffrey J. Kripal and Nick Herbert
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
In books like
Embryogenesis and
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings, author Richard Grossinger brought together the subjects of biological embryology and the esoteric process of human consciousness becoming embodied ("The embryo is the universe writing itself on its own body"). In
Dark Pool of Light, his latest creation, Grossinger weaves neuroscience-based...
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Man's Place in Nature
Written by Thomas H. Huxley
Series edited by Stephen Jay Gould
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $11.99
Thomas H. Huxley was one of the first supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, and he did more than any other writer to advance its acceptance among scientists and nonscientists alike. His most famous book,
Man’s Place in Nature, published only five years after Darwin’s
The Origin...
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Empowering Public Wisdom
A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics
Written by Tom Atlee
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In
Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation and voter education, but suggests that what is really needed is a re-thinking of the...
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