Penguin Classics, March 2017. Paper Back. 'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!' One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age. These writings, which did much to establish his reputation as a philosopher, offer some of his most..... More
Penguin Classics, March 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. 'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work..... More
Penguin Classics, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness..... More
Paulist Press, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Here is a fascinating and unusual addition to the acclaimed Classics of Western Spirituality(TM)series. Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) was born to a Marrano family in Spain and raised as a Catholic. After fleeing Spain at age 22, he returned to Judaism and educated himself..... More
Vintage, May 2005. Trade Paperback. "There's no writer alive like de Botton" (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status--a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1955. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Hardcover. Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove..... More
The Wisdom Library a division of Philosophical Library, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo in jacket with dust stains and chipping, Foxing end papers and elsewhere, Large section (one inch across) of chewed board and DJ along top edge of front jacket panel. Non-authorial inscription toward top margin of front free end..... More
University of Chicago Press, October 1985. Trade Paperback. This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style. The accompanying notes provide literary and historical references..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, February 2001. Trade Paperback. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic..... More
New Harbinger, November 2009. Trade Paperback. If you change your brain, you can change your life. Great teachers like the Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, and Gandhi were all born with brains built essentially like anyone else's--and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world. Science is now..... More
New Harbinger Publications, October 2011. Trade Paperback. You've heard the expression, "It's the little things that count." It's more than a simple platitude. Research has shown that integrating little daily practices into your life can actually change the way your brain works. This guide offers simple things you can do..... More
Princeton University Press, May 1994. First Edition. Cloth. The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to..... More
Girl Friday Books, April 2023. Paper Back. "I loved--and to a slightly uncomfortable degree related to--this book." Charles Bethea, staff writer at The New Yorker Funny, perceptive, and deeply personal, Mediocre Monk follows Grant Lindsley's rocky journey toward spiritual growth--one that ultimately leads him to places he never imagined. After..... More
collier books, January 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. Theology, in the form of a series of letters purportedly written by the old and cunning devil Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, on the subject of how to distract humans from God and the path of salvation. [Suggest a different description.]. More
Three Rivers Press, August 2003. Oversize Softcover. Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys..... More
Indiana University Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. "The essays in this book make it elegantly clear that there is a vigorous and rigorous Latin American philosophy . . . and that others dismiss it at their peril." --Mario Sáenz The ten essays in this lively anthology move beyond a purely..... More
Tarcher, March 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. An elegant, sweeping, modern-day Jungian interpretation of the two strands of Arthurian myth: the Round Table, Camelot, and King Arthur on one side and the Grail quest on the other. The quest for the Holy Grail is, in a larger sense, the story of..... More
Vintage, August 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. The essential philosophy and literary elements of Sartre's lifework, available in one volume for the first time in any language. Selected bibliography. More
Tuttle Publishing, September 2012. Hardcover. Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper place in Zen's historical journey through Chinese Buddhist culture, it also tells a larger story: how, in taking the first step..... More
Modern Library, March 1993. Hardcover. The justly famous "Mythology" by Thomas Bulfinch contains three volumes the major contents of which are retained in this abridgment for the student and general reader. "The Age Of Fable" -- The gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome, as well as the mythology of..... More
Anchor Books, January 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback worn at cover edges with small chipping at top & bottom of spine. Light creasing. Designed by Joseph P. Ascherl. [433 pages.]. More
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Nilgiri Press, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Easwaran's best-selling translation of this classic Buddhist text The Dhammapada is reliable, readable, and profound. Dhammapada means "the path of dharma," the path of harmony and righteousness that anyone can follow to reach the highest good. The Dhammapada is a collection of verses, gathered..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, May 2007. Trade Paperback. Buddha was a revolutionary. His practice was subversive; his message, seditious. His enlightened point of view went against the norms of his day--in his words, "against the stream." His teachings changed the world, and now they can change you too. Presenting the basics of Buddhism..... More
