Vintage, June 2010. Trade Paperback. We spend most of our waking lives at work--in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of..... More
Semiotext(e), June 1983. First Edition. Paper Back. The first presentation of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the rhizome. A rhizome may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines. You can never get..... More
Semiotext(e), June 1989. Paper Back. Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have surpassed history. First published in 1989, Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of..... More
Semiotext(e), January 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-François Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the "figural" and representation, silence and libidinal energy. First edition. 12mo. Edgeworn. Else clean & sound. [114 pages]. More
Rodale Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. B.K.S. Iyengar--hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be one of the most important yoga masters--has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance..... More
Gateway Editions, January 2023. Paper Back. The one book you need to master stoic philosophy! This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the full text of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the complete Enchiridion of Epictetus..... More
Pantheon Books, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The description for this book, Aurora Consurgens, will be forthcoming. First Bollingen Printing with no additional printings stated; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy red cloth covered boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket Very Good w/ gentle edge-wear, mild..... More
Parallax Press, July 2022. Paper Back. The simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh give us the tools to cultivate concentration. Practicing mindfulness brings concentration, and concentration brings insight and understanding. With our world experiencing the deep effects of loneliness, digital overload, and a proliferation of potential distractions..... More
University Of Chicago Press, November 1982. Trade Paperback. Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1987. Paper Back. This is a collection in translation of essays by Paul Ricoeur which presents a comprehensive view of his philosophical hermeneutics, its relation to the views of his predecessors in the tradition and its consequences for the social sciences. The volume has three parts. The..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1973. Paper Back. Octavo. Old name stamp verso of front cover, top textblock edge & last internal blank page. Dust stained/darkened textblock top edge. [293 pages]. More
Princeton University Press, 1973. Reprint. Paper Back. Here are the chief riches of more than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the ancient Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox systems, the commentaries of the scholastic period, and the contemporary writings. Introductions and interpretive commentaries are..... More
W W Norton & Co, 1969. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Reprint. Clean & sound. [200 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, October 1978. Paper Back. Octavo with sun bleached spine. Review copy with review sllp from Oxford University Press laid in. [89 pages]. More
Basil Blackwell, 1989. First Thus. Paper Back. Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have appeared in English, notable..... More
Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1989. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. First paperback edition. Creased front cover. Darkened margins & textblock edges of interior pages. [311 pages]. More
Penguin Press, August 2020. Hardcover. "[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians' thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks." --Wall Street Journal A grand narrative of..... More
Melville House, March 2023. Hardcover. "A fascinating, investigative dive . . . both alarming and enlightening." -- Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money The definitive account of how a group of American Catholic bishops are using "dark money" and allying with ultra-right evangelicals in an attempt to remake America... More
Penguin UK, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Witchcraft, astrology, divination, and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At..... More
Wisdom Publications, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Using vignettes and anecdotes from his own life - as well as quotations drawn from sources as varied as the Bible, Yiddish aphorisms, and stand-up comedy - Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford shares the gifts won over his lifetime of..... More
Parallax Press, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Five years in the making, What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop is a major, active anthology of modern, mindful poetry, featuring over 330 selections from over 125 authors. Plus the appendix includes "mind-writing slogans" and "mind-writing exercises" by Allen Ginsberg. The time..... More
Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers, August 2003. Mass Market PaperBack. This guide teaches us how to break the shackles of fear and reveals how we can overcome our own psychological stumbling blocks. Filled with epigrams, lectures, and personal anecdotes, it is a testament of what we can become, if we have faith..... More
Random House Value Publishing, December 1988. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Book has black textured boards with a heavy linen cloth spine. More
Dell, January 1969. Trade Paperback. More
University Of Chicago Press, December 1989. First Edition. Cloth. "I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism--of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's..... More
