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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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All About Love New Visions
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Chapter One The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word "love" lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means....
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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 Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of...
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
by Alan W. Watts Publisher Comments An exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy....
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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by Leona Koren Publisher Comments Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional....
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (P.S.)
by Robert M. Pirsig Publisher Comments A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and hisson, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to...
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Art As Experience (05 Edition)
by John Dewey Synopsis Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, "Art as Experience" has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal...
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Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients
by Bernie S Siegel Publisher Comments "A new philosophy, a way of life, is not giuen for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort."--Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Privileged Listener The idea of the exceptional patient is not taught in medical...
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Marx Engels Reader 2ND Edition
by Karl Marx Synopsis Compiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of classical Marxism....
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Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (63 Edition)
by Wing-tsit Chan Synopsis This Source Book is devoted to the purpose of providing such a basis for genuine understanding of Chinese thought (and thereby of Chinese life and culture, since the relationship between the two is probably more pronounced in China than in any other...
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Man's Search for Meaning - With New Foreward (06 Edition)
by Viktor E. Frankl Publisher Comments Psychiatrist Viktor Frankls memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his...
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A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments 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 the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit....
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker...
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The City and Man
by Leo Strauss Publisher Comments The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of...
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence. Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with...
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Doors of Perception Heaven & Hell
by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century....
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Public & Its Problems
by John Dewey Synopsis In his characteristic provocative style, John Dewey clarifies the meaning and implications of such concepts as "the public," "the state," "government," and "political democracy." He distinguishes his a posterior reasoning from a priori reasoning, which...
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Road To Serfdom -volume II ((Rev)07 Edition)
by F.a. Hayek Publisher Comments An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—...
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Importance of Living (37 Edition)
by Lin Yutang Publisher Comments The Importance of Livingis a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never...
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