History & Schools of Thought

This Volume Brings Together The Era's Classic Works, With More Than A Hundred Selections From A Broad Range Of Sources, Including Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, N...

Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. ...

A Reflection On Everyday Existence In The ‘sphere Of Consumption Of Late Capitalism’, This Work Is Adorno’s Literary And Philosophical Masterpiece. Th...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

What Is The Proper Place Of Solitude In Human Existence? Some Thinkers Have Claimed That Solitude Is Our Truest, Most Ultimate, Metaphysically Deepest State...

Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön p...

What is Te? What is Taoism? What has Piglet to do with either? Te (pronounced "Deh") is Chinese for Virtue. Taoism is a Chinese philosophy. (Practically sp...

national Bestseller“a Triumph Of Popularization: Extraordinarily Knowledgeable, Informal In Tone, Amusing, Wide-ranging, Smartly Paced.” —the New York Time...

This Collection Of Original Essays By Many Of Today's Preeminent Interpreters Of Continental Philosophy Explores The Question Of Whether Western Thought And...

A riveting, lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Helen of Troy. We think the way we do because ...

Written In Greek By The Only Roman Emperor Who Was Also A Philosopher, Without Any Intention Of Publication, The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius (ad 121-180)...

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offers timeless guidance for a turbulent world.Like us, Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius lived through a wor...

A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITYThe effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our t...

To The Complete Novice Learning About Philosophy Can Be Daunting. The Philosophy Book Changes All That. With The Use Of Powerful And Easy To Follow Images, ...

Margaret Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the picture of nature a...

An integral part of Chinese thought for more than 2,000 years, the Tao Te Ching teaches individual peace and harmony through meditation. One of the most i...

Since Their Publication In 1982, Samuel Shirley's Translations Of Spinoza's Ethics And Selected Letters Have Been Commended For Their Accuracy And Readabili...

"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 199...

A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate c...

One Of America's Most Beloved Spiritual Leaders And The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Jesuit Guide To (almost) Everything And Jesus: A Pilgrimage...

A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his supervising...

if You Know The Enemy And Know Yourself, You Need Not Fear The Result Of A Hundred Battles. If You Know Yourself But Not The Enemy, For Every Victory Gain...

In This Fresh And Masterful Translation, Marvin Meyer Presents One Of The World's Best-loved Sacred Texts. Honed Over The Last Twenty Years Through A Dozen ...

No Other English-language Translation Comes Close To The Standard Of Accuracy And Readability Set Here By Reeve. This Volume Provides The Reader With More O...

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi's ideas on pluralism, religious identity, non-violence, satyagraha, and modernity...

Carnap, R. Empiricism, Semantics, And Ontology.--quine, W. V. Two Dogmas Of Empiricism. Meaning And Translation.--sellars, W. Empiricism And The Philosophy ...

This book offers a clear, straightforward approach to Buddhism in general and awareness in particular. It is about being awake and in touch with what is go...

Offers A Modern Translation Of The Roman Philosopher's Journal.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Occult & ParanormalPsychic Phenomena

Here We Can Find Out About Irony And The Meaning Of Life, The Politics Of The Nuclear Family, Marxism In Springfield, The Elusiveness Of Happiness, Popular ...

This lavishly illustrated guide explains the principles and practice of Feng Shui in a comprehensive and practical way. Apply the secrets of Chinese wisdom...

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more...

Change your life using Wayne W. Dyer's astonishing Nine Spiritual Principles: Are the decisions and actions in your life controlled by your ego? Do you ha...

Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the images--of the...

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk int...

Sun Tzu's 2,500-year-old masterpiece, The Art of War, is one of the oldest and most-read military treatises in the world. This succinct text, which details ...

Designated One of the 100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th century, here is a verbatim reprinting of the 1946 first edition, with all its inhere...

The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of ...

military Rule And The Martial Tradition Of The Samurai Dominated Japanese Culture For More Than Eight Hundred Years. According To Thomas Cleary—translator...

Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His ai...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

[translated] By Brian Walker.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Other Eastern Religions & Sacred TextsTaoism

From The Internationally Heralded Author Of How Proust Can Change Your Life Comes This Remarkable New Book That Presents The Wisdom Of Some Of The Greatest ...

In 1974 Dr. W. Brugh Joy was a distinguished and respected member of the Los Angeles medical community. In that year he contracted a life-threatening disea...

this Lyrical, Evocative, Thought-provoking Journal Of A Man's Quest For Truth—and For Himself—was An Instant Classic, Now Available Unabridged On Cd villag...

a Touchstone In Western Debates About Society And Government, The politics Is Aristotle's Classic Work On The Nature Of Political Community. Here, He Argue...

A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to ...

Presents a readable and appealing introduction to what otherwise might seem an inaccessible religion of late antiquity.Categories: Politics & Social Sci...

Critique Of Pure Reason / Immanuel Kant -- An Attempt At A New Presentation Of The Wissenschaftslehre / Johann Gottlieb Fichte -- Judgment And Being / Fried...