Viking Books, February 2001. Hardcover. Heir to the throne of Ephesus, Heraclitus gave up his kingdom and chose, instead of the trappings of power, to seek the word of wisdom. Twent-five hundred years before Einstein, Heraclitus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux..... More
Brainbow Press, January 2007. Trade Paperback. - The Reformist Translation of the Quran offers a non-sexist and non-sectarian understanding of the divine text; it is the result of collaboration between three translators, two men and a woman. - It explicitly rejects the authority of the clergy to determine the likely..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1971. Trade Paperback. Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun..... More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, September 1992. Hardcover. Published in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this volume has a special section with memoirs and other material dealing with aspects of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Topics covered..... More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, January 1991. Hardcover. Now in its sixth year of publication, Polin is rapidly emerging as a leading forum for authoritative historical and cultural material on Polish and east European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often..... More
Blackwell Pub, March 1987. Hardcover. More
Blackwell Publishers, March 1991. Hardcover. More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, September 1989. Hardcover. Polin' is a leading forum for authoritative historical and cultural material on Polish and East European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents. Each issue also features an extensive..... More
Basil Blackwell, January 1987. Hardcover. More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, September 1990. Hardcover. Polin' is a leading forum for authoritative historical and cultural material on Polish and East European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents. Each issue also features an extensive..... More
Writings of Mary Baker Eddy, September 2000. Trade Paperback. First published in 1875 and read by more than eight million people, this nondenominational book has a 119-year history of healing and inspiration. To attract a new audience, this time-honored message of healing has a powerful new cover, easy-to-read page layout..... More
Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers, 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Paramhansa Yogananda was the first great master of India to live in the West for an extended period. Sent to America in 1920, he introduced tens of thousands of Americans to yoga. This is his autobiography. More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 1988. Trade Paperback. Western philosophy remains one of the greatest glories of world civilization, yet surprisingly few people have any real knowledge of it. Based on fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of today's internationally-known scholars and philosophers, The Great Philosophers presents an accessible..... More
Hill and Wang, June 2009. Trade Paperback. Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? The mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put..... More
New Directions, January 1949. Hardcover. Buckram binding with paper spine and cover labels (cover label lightly stained). Endpapers foxed. Non-authorial gift inscription, dated 1952, on front free endpaper. Jacket is toned and has closed tears and light chipping but is complete with original $3.00 price on front flap. More
Princeton University Press, May 2022. Hardcover. The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold..... More
Blackwell Pub, February 1992. Hardcover. The Concept of Time presents the reconstructed text of a lecture delivered by Martin Heidegger to the Marburg Theological Society in 1924. It offers a fascinating insight into the developmental years leading up to the publication, in 1927, of his magnum opus Being and Time..... More
Random House, January 1962. Cloth. Complete four volume set. Octavo. No jackets as issued. Tan cloth with black & silver lettering. Heavy foxing, darkening to margins. Tanning to end pages. Front free end pages on all 4 volumes have inked previous owner's name and a previous dealer's rubber stamped address..... More
New Falcon Publications, June 1993. Trade Paperback. Presents a collection of contemporary Zen parables. For the novice, this work is an introduction to the baffling world of meditation, Eastern thought and the galaxy of philosophies that make up the expanding horizon of human awareness, and for the veteran, it integrates..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Norman Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. In addition to surveying the nature and development of Judaism, this Very Short Introduction outlines the basics of practical Judaism -- its festivals, prayers, customs, and..... More
Purdue University Press, June 1980. First Thus. Paper Back. In this work, Calvin O. Schrag addresses a widespread crisis in the current philosophies and sciences of man. He sees this crisis as resulting from a loss of center within the human sciences. Accelerated developments in the human sciences have produced..... More
Princeton University Press, January 1981. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long..... More
Seabury Press / A Continuum Book, December 1974. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4' x 8 & 1/4'} Octavo. Translation of 1967 collection of three essays, 'Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft. Aus den Vorträgen und Aufzeichnungen seit Kriegsende'. 'Frankfurt School of Philosophy' member Horkheimer was best known for his early analysis..... More
Duquesne University Press, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn/edgeworn dustjacket with one-half inch closed tear top edge of rear DJ panel. Rubbing & light foxing to jacket recto. Heavy foxing & tanning to jacket verso. Front flap is not clipped. Dijon colored cloth covered boards with black..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Reprint. Soft Cover. The second volume of Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling contains Part IV of the six parts which will eventually compose Susanne Langer's masterwork. It confronts the crucial issue of The Great Shift from animal to man. Octavo. 4th paperback printing. Clean..... More
