Oxford University Press, December 2001. Hardcover. The Bible has been a rich source of inspiration for two thousand years, one of the great wellsprings of Western civilization. In The Oxford Guide to Ideas and Issues of the Bible, dozens of eminent scholars explore how the Bible has influenced our religious..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1994. Hardcover. From Plato's Republic and St. Augustine's Confessions through Marx's Capital and Sartre's Being and Nothingness, the extraordinary philosophical dialogue between great Western minds has flourished unabated through the ages. Dazzling in its genius and breadth, the long line of European and American intellectual..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1990. Hardcover. Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this lavishly illustrated volume--the latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History series--provides the most authoritative and accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader. The impact of Christianity on..... More
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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 Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents.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
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 Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents.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
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
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
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1977. Trade Paperback. The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few writers in any..... More
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Routledge, May 2002. First Thus. Paper Back. Eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct perennial problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs, origins, and potential futures. Thinking Through Myths attempts to reconcile the opposed claims of pragmatism and beauty, calling for..... More
Penguin Classics, January 2007. Trade Paperback. The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying Graced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is "immaculately rendered in an English both..... More
Nilgiri Press, August 2007. Trade Paperback. Easwaran's best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound. In the Upanishads, illumined sages share flashes of insight, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself. In extraordinary visions, they experience directly a transcendent Reality which is..... More
IntermediaCT Books. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1998. Trade Paperback. As A. N. Wilson, biographer of Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and Jesus, makes clear in this astonishing and gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of exegesis, scholarship, and ceremony stripped away, is a Jew..... More
Vintage, March 1997. Trade Paperback. David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates..... More
Cornell University Press, June 1985. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with moderate wear to edges and small tears. Ochre end pages with previous owner's name in ink front free end page. Brown umber cloth covered boards. Gold lettering upon spine. Tight binding. [272 pages]. More
Cengage Learning, January 1992. Hardcover. This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show..... More
University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Columbia University Press, April 2003. Hardcover. What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience..... More
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Prentice Hall, June 1963. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from use; Spine un-creased; Foxing/browning present at outer edge text-block; Previous owner initials/previous seller stamps present at inside cover/publisher page; Text free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Omen Press, January 1973. Paper Back. More
