Zen in the Art of Archery
Vintage, August 1989. Trade Paperback. An illuminating account of how to understand Zen through archery. More
Religion/Philosophy/Spirituality
Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede
Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1998. Trade Paperback. In this broad survey of the efforts to establish, amend, or deny the historical Jesus, Albert Schweitzer presents the history of a debate about what mattered most to millions of people: If God had entered human history, what could history tell about..... More
A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000
Clarendon Press, April 2002. Hardcover. Ranging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam, and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments, historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States. Readers will explore the thought of early American philosophers such..... More
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Beacon Press (MA), July 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. With a new afterword" Acts of Faith" is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel's story is a hopeful..... More
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
Quill, 1983. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Philosophy
Sterling, October 2009. Hardcover. How should we live? What really exists? And how do we know for sure? In this lively and engaging study, Edward Craig argues that learning philosophy is merely a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. But he also shows that philosophy..... More
The Quest of the Holy Grail (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, January 0001. Paper Back. Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the..... More
Embracing the Divine Feminine: Finding God Through God the Ecstasy of Physical Love--The Song of Songs Annotated & Explained
Skylight Paths Publishing, October 2014. Trade Paperback. More than ancient erotic love poetry, this celebration of the human relationship with Wisdom can be a companion for your own spiritual journey. The Song of Songs is the Hebrew Bible's deeply erotic poem of love, sexual yearning and consummation. Holding it sacred..... More
David Hume's Political Essays (The Library of Liberal Arts)
Bobbs-Merrill, January 1953. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Sun-bleached spine. Previous owner's name in ink front cover upper right corner. And again this same former owner's name is written on half title page within. Some underlining scattered about occasionally through text. Book mark 'with the compliments of the Bobbs-Merrill company, inc..... More
Principles Dialogues and Philosophical Co
Library Of Liberal Arts, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, June 1982. Trade Paperback. A masterly analysis of how and why power must be used in a market society to preserve peace and prosperity. Written at a time of great political turmoil in England, it has profoundly influenced political thought over the centuries. More
The Gods of Greece
Harry N. Abrams, March 1983. Cloth. Quarto. {9' x 11 & 1/2') In dustjacket with marginal darkening/foxing. Grey cloth covered boards with sun tanned edges. Silver stamped lettering along spine. End page design of fish pattern by Theodore Kalomirakis.[216 pages]. More
Born to Kvetch : Yiddish Language And Culture in All Its Moods
St Martins Pr, August 2005. Hardcover. As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a...... More
The Bride of Lammermoor
Everyman's Library / Dent, 1966. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In well worn dustjacket. Spine is slightly leaning. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Considerable ink underlining. Dust stains & foxing textblock fore-edge. Textblock topstained light pink. [337 [pages]. More
Night
Pyramid Books, December 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent..... More
Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present
University Alabama Press, October 1975. Trade Paperback. Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English--Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and..... More
Plato's Symposium (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature)
Oxford University Press, July 2004. Trade Paperback. Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims..... More
Life of Reason (Revised)
Prometheus Books, May 1998. Paper Back. Comparing the lived world with the ideal world, noted American philosophical naturalist, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) seeks in this influential compilation of his earlier works to outline the ancient ideal of a well-ordered life, one in which reason is the organizing..... More
Principia Ethica (Revised)
Cambridge University Press, November 1993. Paper Back. Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. The text is reprinted here with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Though unfinished, it sets out clearly Moore's second thoughts about..... More
Philosophical Dictionary (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, March 1984. Trade Paperback. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment..... More
Mortal Questions
Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1991. Paper Back. Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity..... More
The Logic of Practice
Stanford University Press, June 1990. Hardcover. Our usual representations of the opposition between the civilized and the primitive derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object..... More
Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science
St. Martin's Press, June 1989. Hardcover. In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is being restored at the leading edge of science. Myths that have been created by us are not merely parables but rather the wisdom of past and perhaps more observant generations. More
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Penguin USA, 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs." Mass market. Edgeworn and dust stained. Slightly cocked spine. [297 pages]. More
The Illustrated Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology (Library of the world's myths and legends)
Peter Bedrick Books, June 1986. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with foxing and moderate edgewear. Black paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [224 pages]. More
