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Four Agreements : a Practical Guide To Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) (97 Edition)
by Don Miguel Ruiz  
Publisher Comments Everything we do is based on agreements we have made — agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to...
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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer
Powells.com Staff Pick In The Open Road, Pico Iyer gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the Dalai Lama. This is more than a history book, though. The author shares his personal day-to-day spiritual journey in a way that will speak to Westerners. It's a wonderful book; I couldn'...
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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question -- Why We Suffer
by Bart D. Ehrman Publisher Comments In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many "answers" that often contradict one another. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put...
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Discourses of Epictetus (95 Edition)
by Epictetus Synopsis The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nichol Taleb Publisher Comments A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The...
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The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff Synopsis The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!? One of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese, or a venerable philosopher, but is in fact none other than A. A. Milne's effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear Winnie-the-Pooh. While...
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Experience and Education
by John Dewey Publisher Comments Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'...
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2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Daniel Pinchbeck
Powells.com Staff Pick From the wind-swept desert of Burning Man, to the Bwiti ceremonies of Gabon, to sipping ayahuasca in Brazil, Pinchbeck takes the reader on a psychedelic journey to discover just what in the universe is happening — and will happen — on December...
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True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (51 Edition)
by Eric Hoffer Publisher Comments A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President...
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Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 2
by Anthony Kenny Publisher Comments Sir Anthony Kenny here continues his fascinating account of the history of philosophy, focusing on the thousand-year-long medieval period. This is the second volume of a four-book set in which Kenny will unfold a magisterial new history of Western...
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A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1945, Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject — unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit...
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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
by Pema Chodron
Powells.com Staff Pick Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions in the West, and as it has grown in popularity, a handful of teachers have emerged as international celebrities. Thich Nhat Hanh, Shunryu Suzuki, Chögyam Trungpa and, of course...
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are...
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
by Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher Comments People need hope more than ever in difficult political times — like this one. This book brings together the voices of eloquent writers and activists to talk about how we replenish the wells of commitment. It explores what keeps us going as we work...
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Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
by C S Lewis
Publisher Comments One of the most popular and beloved introductions to Christian faith ever written, Mere Christianity has sold millions of copies worldwide. The book brings together Lewis's legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to...
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A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis Publisher Comments Chapter One No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly...
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Common Sense, Rights of Man (03 Edition)
by Thomas Paine Synopsis Noted works by one of the most eloquent proponents of democracy are together in this one volume. Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" is joined by "The Rights of Man, " his defense of the French Revolution, and selections from "The Crisis."...
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Freedom in Exile
by Dalai Lama Publisher Comments In this astonishingly frank autobiography, the Dalai Lama reveals the remarkable inner strength that allowed him to master both the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism and the brutal realities of Chinese Communism....
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I and Thou
by Martin Buber Publisher Comments 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 intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as...
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The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
Publisher Comments Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved...
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