Everyman Paperbacks, May 1995. Trade Paperback. The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art and the only lasting..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, October 1970. Trade Paperback. In this popular, highly readable survey, Mary Warnock considers the contributions made to Existentialism by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl, and discusses at length the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. This revised edition includes a postscript reviewing the status of Existentialism in..... More
Oxford University Press, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Arthur Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book offers a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of thought, including his doctrine of the will, his pessimism and his theories of art and music - which..... More
Viking Adult, June 2001. Hardcover. Francine du Plessix Gray's biography of the Marquis de Sade, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "boldly imaginative retelling" of his life and garnered the critically acclaimed author a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 1986. Trade Paperback. Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a vision of man as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1995. Trade Paperback. The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which ended abruptly in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from..... More
Oxford University Press, February 1984. Trade Paperback. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith's first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment..... More
Vintage, December 1989. Trade Paperback. Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that..... More
Da Capo Press, February 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Basic Books, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Using newly available documentary evidence in diaries and letters, the authors present a startling new view of one of the legenday sexual and intellectual partnerships of the 20th century--the relationship between the matriarch of modern feminism and and father of existentialism. More
Harper Perennial, October 2006. Trade Paperback. "Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of young starlets who share the bed of one or the other--or sometimes both. Readers will turn..... More
Sounds True, September 2016. Hardcover. "Enlightenment"--is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now--and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings..... More
Anchor, November 2009. Trade Paperback. In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and..... More
Ballantine Books, June 1992. Paper Back. "Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. Readers interested in the role of herbs and foods in healing will also find much to learn here, as I have.... More
Harcourt, Brace & World, January 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. No dustjacket. Dusted tan cloth covered boards with umber and lemon yellow lettering. Darkened spine and margins to cloth cover. Previous owner's name rubber stamped top textblock edge and on front free end page and front pastedown. Also hand written..... More
Harper Perennial, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help..... More
Theosophical Publishing House (division of Theosop, November 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1979. Trade Paperback. A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield. More
Shambhala, February 2001. Trade Paperback. This practical commentary on one of the most important scriptures of the Pali canon will provide essential sustenance for Buddhist practitioners. Ayya Khema is a mountain of strength, encouragement, and tough love as she pours out down-to-earth practical instruction on the journey to enlightenment, following..... More
Shambhala, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy--both with others and with ourselves--creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom..... More
Wisdom Publications, March 1999. Trade Paperback. From the best-selling author of Being Nobody, Going Nowhere, Ayya Khema's Be an Island guides us along the path of Buddhist meditation with direct and practical advice, giving us contemplative tools to develop a healthy sense of personal being. Be an Island is at..... More
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, January 1998. Hardcover. Library binding. Clean and tight. More
Touchstone Books, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Why Must Humanity Suffer? C.S. Lewis, the master apologist, tackles the question that has plagued humanity for centuries. If God is both omnipotent and good, how can we explain the pain and suffering that people experience daily? And what of the suffering of animals..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, February 2001. Trade Paperback. A classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed..... More
Shambhala, October 2002. Trade Paperback. This modern spiritual classic highlights a trick we play on ourselves and offers a brighter reality: liberation by letting go of the self rather than working to improve it The Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant..... More
