Philosophy

One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athe...

Laurence Lampert. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 305-307) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyCriticism

Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depic...

An acclaimed philosopher  and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living\You didn't choose to live this life, in this body, in...

Infinity Is A Concept That Fascinates Everyone From A Seven-year-old Child To A Maths Professor. So Remarkable And Strange Is It That Contemplating It Has D...

This popular text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. Using a proven step-by-step approach, this text co...

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict...

Charlie Rose Has Called Louis C.k. The Philosopher-king Of Comedy, And Many Have Detected Philosophical Profundity In His Material. Twenty-five Philosophers...

Self-help, With A Twist The Secret To Everything Has Been Known To Mystics And Scholars For Centuries And Millennia, And, Today, Is Increasingly Being Confi...

Arthur Ripstein's lectures focus on the two bodies of rules governing war: the jus ad bellum, which regulates resort to armed force, and the jus in bello, w...

Perception is our key to the world.\It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environ...

Harold D. Roth. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 241-251) And Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Text...

Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with masculinity and subsequent debates have been framed by this...

From the Bestselling Author of The Nature of Personal Reality... One of the most powerful of the Seth books, Seth Speaks is an essential guide to consciou...

This book traces the spiritual journey of Satish Kumar: child monk, peace pilgrim, ecological activist, and educator. In it he recounts the sources of inspi...

Uses new research about the brain to explore how we can transcend our current physical and cultural limitations • Reveals that transcendence of current mo...

Nick Herbert. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [251]-255) And Index.Categories: Science & Math PhysicsQuantum Theory

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...

This concise guide offers a modern interpretation of one of ancient mystical philosophy's greatest treasures. It condenses Hermetic doctrine into seven co...

Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on th...

In Cultivating Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder argue that while communities form naturally, organizations...

This moment of perfect clarity that is the force behind all the traditional Japanese arts—from archery to flower arranging—is celebrated here in Dave L...

How To Live As Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, One Of Today's Most Brilliant Christian Thinkers And Author Of The Divine Conspiracy (christianity Today's 1999 B...

Building on the themes in his wildly popular book GodWinks, SQuire Rushnell shows how ordinary peoples’ lives have been profoundly changed by extraordina...

B.K.S. Iyengar's Light On Yoga is established now as the classic text for all serious students of yoga.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Philosophy...

In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." T...

Virtually Everyone Supports Religious Liberty, And Virtually Everyone Opposes Discrimination. But How Do We Handle The Hard Questions That Arise When Exerci...

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The story of Krishnamurti, one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial spiritual figures, takes place in the crucible of sexual scanda...

A powerful political critique of postmodernism. Melancholic and introspective,ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. In this origin...

The Kalachakra, or "Wheel of Time," is one of the most profound and sublime of the Buddhist tantric systems. It is an intricate interweaving of astrology, ...

Bestselling author Pedram Shojai, "The Urban Monk," presents a comprehensive guide on how Taoist alchemical practices can help you release stress, harness ...

Liam loves playing games. His favorite game is 'Woof Woof' which he loves to play with Daddy. When Liam collects all the bones and Daddy loses, he says 'Go...

Socrates, One Of The First Of The Great Philosophers, Left No Written Works. What Survives Of His Thought Are Second-hand Descriptions Of His Teachings And ...

A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysti...

Although utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines of faith ...

Jeffrey Burton Russell. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Theology ChristianAngelology & Demonology

A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the...

Jarvis Jay Masters Has Taken An Extraordinary Journey Of Faith. Strangely Enough, His Moment Of Enlightenment Came Behind The Bars Of San Quentin's Death Ro...

An unabridged edition with updated footnotes and layout, to include: Recent Criticisms of Consciousness - Instinct and Habit - Desire and Feeling - Influenc...

The history of education can easily be described as theme and variation on one motif: reform. From Plato’s critique of the Sophists in Protagoras to John ...

Happy Lives, Good Lives offers a thorough introduction to a variety of perspectives on happiness. Among the questions at issue: Is happiness only a state o...

The Question Of Whether Humans Are Free To Make Their Own Decisions Has Long Been Debated And It Continues To Be A Controversial Topic Today. In Free Will:...

In his preface Mr Wilson writes 'I feel that a great many adults ... would do better to spend less time in simply accepting the concepts of others uncritica...

the Four Agreements Introduced A New Way Of Living To Thousands Of Readers. Based On Ancient Toltec Wisdom, This Companion Guide To The Book Will Help Fans ...

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguisha...

The concept of individualism has gone through a fundamental change, according to distinguished political theorist Nadia Urbinati. In the nineteenth century,...

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, a...