History & Schools of Thought

What is success? What does it look like? How does one achieve it? In Life is Setting Me Up for Success, author Victor Levy takes an in-depth look at success...

Martin Buber's I And Thou Has Long Been Acclaimed As A Classic. Many Prominent Writers Have Acknowledged Its Influence On Their Work; Students Of Intellectu...

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the du...

Edited And Introduced By Everett F. Bleiler. ... An Unabridges And Unaltered Republication Of The Work Originally Published By Fox, Duffield And Company In...

A revised edition of this successful book, updated for the new specifications of A-level English Literature. Aimed at those studying for both the AS and the...

At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked ...

At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible...

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human e...

One of America's most respected Buddhist teachers distills a lifetime of practice and teaching in this groundbreaking exploration of the new Buddhist tradit...

About the AuthorRichard Carson lives near Dallas with his wife, Leti, and their son, Jonah. He writes out of his thirteen years as a psychotherapist and as ...

Practising The True Spirit Of Zen. not Always So Is Based On Shunryu Suzuki's Lectures And Is Framed In His Own Inimitable, Allusive, Paradoxical Style, ...

Daoist Phenomenology: A Vertical Reading (Daoism and the Human Experience)Categories: Religion & Spirituality Buddhism ZenPhilosophy

A Distillation Of The Author's Years Of Scholarship And Teaching Demonstrates How Violence Is An Inappropriate Response On Every Level, Offering Spiritual G...

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In ...

How Does One Live? How Does One Do The Good Or Honorable Thing, While Flourishing And Feeling Happy? This Question Obsessed Renaissance Writers, None More T...

Translated By Eva Wong.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Other Eastern Religions & Sacred TextsTaoism

National Bestseller This inspiring book by Wayne Dyer, author of the bestselling classics Your Erroneous Zones and Pulling Your Own Strings, delves into th...

Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War, into a complete ha...

For many, philosophy is a difficult, almost unapproachable field--just understanding it seems to require more knowledge than most students and general reade...

Collected here in a single volume for the first time are John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and T...

The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western s...

One of the most important books in the history of Oriental culture, the I Ching seems to have been prepared before 1000 B.C., in the last days of the Shang ...

For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's market...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts...

The Human Genome, The Complete Set Of Genes Housed In Twenty-three Pairs Of Chromosomes, Is Nothing Less Than An Autobiography Of Our Species. Spelled Out I...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

An extended and revised edition of one of the best-selling Cambridge Texts.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Internationa...

Exploring the mystery, wisdom, and power of the dark phase of the moon's cycle—a lunar-based model for moving through the dark times in our lives with un...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

The Great Philosopher's Major Work On Ethics, Along With Ecce Homo, Nietzche's Remarkable Review Of His Life And Works. Translated By Walter Kaufmann. ...

Colin Morris traces the origin of the concept of the individual, not to the Renaissance where it is popularly assumed to have been invented, but farther bac...

Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason Is One Of The Most Rewarding And Difficult Of All Philosophical Works. Norman Kemp Smith's Translation Is Immensely ...

more Than A Martial Art, T'ai Chi Is Also A Holistic Method Of Self-healing, A Form Of Moving Meditation, And A Philosophical Way Of Life. Health, Relaxati...

This is the first comprehensive study of the philosophical achievements of twelfth-century Western Europe. It is the collaboration of fifteen scholars whose...

A compilation of the essential works of Plato in  one paperback volume: The Republic, The  Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology,  Crito, and Phaedo. ...

Library of Liberal Arts title.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Philosophy History & Schools of Thought WesternMedieval Thought

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new...

Offering a unique pedagogical apparatus, A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides provides selections from the most influenti...

Importance -- Expression -- Understanding -- Perspective -- Forms Of Process -- Civilized Universe -- Nature Lifeless -- Nature Alive -- The Aim Of Philosop...

This is an English translation of Plato's dialogue concerning the nature of knowledge. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions ...

From The Tsunami In Sri Lanka To The War In Iraq To The Starvation In Niger And Ultimately To Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans And Mississippi, Cooper Gives...

Internationally renowned and bestselling author Donna Farhi moves yoga practice beyond the mat into our everyday lives, restoring the tradition's intended ...

J. Krishnamurti was one of the most influential and widely known spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Here, he inquires with the reader into how r...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John ...

Review\"The most companionable of the new Stoic books."― Molly Young, New York Times\"[A] comprehensive guide to [Seneca's] ideas... Fideler keeps things ...

2005 HarperCollins trade paperback, Hazel Rowley (Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage). The passionate and somewhat bizarre relationship between...

A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at th...

with Its Unique Combination Of Depth, Clarity, And Humor That Has Enchanted Millions, This Beloved Classic By Bestselling Author Gary Zukav Opens The Fasci...