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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Mitchell (Author), Lao Tzu (Author)The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." -- Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-...

Sex Beyond Yes: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone

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Report copyright infringementby Quill R. Kukla (Author)Every discussion of sexual ethics revolves around consent, but is this notion enough to help us understand good sex? How does the dominance of consent help or prevent us from negotiating the complexities of intimacy and pleasure?Georgetown professor Quill R Kukla argues that the idea that consent is the gatekeeper between the realms of good and bad sex does not give us the tools we need to navigate pleasure and intimacy. They claim that t...

What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Garland (Author)An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death--and what we might learn from them A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions--Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. By drawing on the latest scholarship on ancient ar...

Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Sontag (Author)A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing--on art, life, camp, and criticism--that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation. Susan Sontag is widely regarded as one of the most formidable, original, and influential writers of the last century. Against Interpretation is a modern classic, her first-ever collection and the work that launched her st...

Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Batchelor (Author)A renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time The Buddha's revolutionary teachings transformed Asia, and his contemporary Socrates laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Although they never met, Socrates and the Buddha each addressed in a radically new and surprisingly similar way the core questions of how to lead a good, just, an...

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Report copyright infringementby Padmasambhava (Author), Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup (Translator), W. y. Evans-Wentz (Editor)The best-known work of Nyingma literature, the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the "Bardo Thodol", or "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" is the work of Tibetan Buddhist spiritualism first revealed by Karma Lingpa in the 14th century. "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" is part of a larger corpus of texts called the "Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation through the I...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Hartman (Author)The vital and untold story of Karl Marx's stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx's ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such...

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Report copyright infringementby Ichiro Kishimi (Author), Fumitake Koga (Author)An international bestseller and TikTok sensation with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal happiness and self-fulfillment.Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal happiness. Based on the theories of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler,...

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Report copyright infringementby Nigel Warburton (Author)A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them just how little they genuinely understood. This engaging Little History introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy a...

On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Smith-Ruiu (Author)In the late, post-lockdown days of the pandemic, grappling with personal loss and existential uncertainty, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself standing in a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a question his tribe of fellow philosophers have often dismissed as too simple: How did I get here? That moment marked a transition for him--it was the start of a journey Smith-Ruiu would take to experience his own mind and the world around him...

Dokkodo. The Way of Walking Alone: Discover self-discipline and personal mastery through the ancestral wisdom of the samurai.

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Report copyright infringementby Shinden Ediciones (Author), Miyamoto Musashi (Author)Discover the path of ancestral wisdom of the samurai with Dokkodo, The Way Of Walking Alone, written by Miyamoto Musashi. This literary treasure, based on the principles of the legendary samurai, will guide you toward self-discipline, mental strength, and personal mastery. Immerse yourself in Musashi's timeless teachings to achieve excellence in every aspect of your life. Get ready to embark on a unique journ...

The Hindus: An Alternative History - Paperback

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by Wendy Doniger (Author)"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher." -The Washington Post An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account. Many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated within a century; its central tenets arise at particular moments in I...

The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle - Hardcover

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by Balthasar Gracian (Author), Christopher Maurer (Translator)"Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and use divine means as though there were no human ones". So wrote the Jesuit scholar Baltazar Gracian some 300 years ago, in a book that will be compared to Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince. A new translation of long lost wisdom on living successfully yet responsibly.Front JacketThe remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how t...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - Paperback

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by Ray Monk (Author)"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a one."--The Christian Science Monitor.Author BiographyRay Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, for which he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He is also the author of Robert Oppenheimer and a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton. Number of Pages: 7...

On What Matters: Volume Three - Hardcover

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by Derek Parfit (Author)Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these things. Much of the book discusses thr...

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: There Are No Limits to the Prosperity, Happiness, and Peace of Mind You Can Achieve Simply by Using the Power of - Paperback

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by Joseph Murphy (Author)The bestseller by a preeminent teacher of the New Thought movement, now revised and expanded with never-before- published commentary from the author. One of the bestselling self-help books of all time, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has helped millions around the world achieve remarkable goals, simply by changing the way they think. Dr. Murphy's mind-focusing techniques are based on a simple principle: If you believe in something without reservation and picture...

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by R. L. Wing (Author)An important, new interpretation of the I Ching, the 5,000-year-old Chinese book of wisdom, in a unique workbook format designed to help truth-seekers find new meaning and enlightenment in its ancient lore. Designed for those actively exploring this ancient system in order to better understand their lives, The I Ching Workbook serves as a simple guide to the study and interpretation of the I Ching's advice. It provides a format for each of the 64 hexagrams that allows on...

Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Bhante Gunaratana (Author)"A masterpiece." --Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, is one of the bestselling -- and most influential -- books in the field of mindfulness. It's easy to see why. Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned meditation master, takes us step by step through the myths, realities, and benefits of meditation and the practice of mindfulness. The book showcases Bhante's trademark clarity and wit as he explores the tool of meditation, what...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Kucharski (Author)An award-winning mathematician--he "made me smile and made me feel clever" (Peter Frankopan)--shows how we prove what's true, and what to do when we can't How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that it is true? For thousands of years, from the ancient Greeks to the Arabic golden age to the modern world, science has used different methods--logical, ...

Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Du Sautoy (Author)"A stunning book ... a thrilling read" (Peter Frankopan) that reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth's lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply "eye of newt and toe of frog," but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, "To be or not to be, that is the question," Shakespeare reaches for eleven. ...

Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don't Add Up

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Report copyright infringementby Eugenia Cheng (Author)An exciting "new perspective on equality and difference" (Stephon Alexander) that shows why the familiar equal sign isn't just a marker of sameness but a gateway into math's--and humanity's--most profound questions "Eugenia Cheng has opened up my mind to the wondrous world of pure mathematics in a way that I never thought was possible."―Willow Smith, singer and actress Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a 2 + b 2 = c 2, or y = ...

Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Scranton (Author)A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025! We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress." The impasse we face is not only political and institution...

The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Klavan (Author)How can we "rejoice always" when the world often seems so broken? Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the darkness can point the way to living beautifully in the midst of a tragic world.In his USA Today bestselling The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the da...

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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Report copyright infringementby Becca Rothfeld (Author)A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The resul...

Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Paul B. Preciado (Author)A revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for centuries In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado, best known for his 2013 cult classic Testo Junkie, has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry, and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking account of the societal convulsions that ha...

Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment

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Report copyright infringementby Robert George (Author)A wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America's leading public intellectualsIn Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. George tackles one of the most vexing issues dividing Americans today. He argues that the "Age of Faith" of the Medieval period and the "Age of Reason" of the European Enlightenments have been followed by a modern "Age of Feeling," in which people derive their ...

The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech--And Why They Fail

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Lukianoff (Author), Nadine Strossen (Author)Heresy Press's first non-fiction offering addresses free speech and creative freedom--central to the Press's mission--through a systematic debunking of the most common pro-censorship arguments. Co-authored by Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech--And Why They Fail constitutes a bulwark against the persistent censorial efforts from both the political left and right...

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by Victor Eremita (Author), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Alastair Hannay (Introduction by)The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. Believing Abraham's unres...

Meditaciones: Marco Aurelio (Edición de Regalo) / Marcus Aurelius Meditations (GI FT Edition) - Hardcover

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by Marco Aurelio (Author)La edición de lujo, maravillosamente ilustrada, del bestseller más estoico. Una invitación a desprendernosde lo incontrolable y tomar las riendas de lo que sí depende de nosotros para convertirnos en «escultores de nuestros pensamientos, nuestros juicios y nuestros deseos. Escritas en griego por un emperador romano e intelectual que no tenía intención alguna de publicarlas, estas píldoras de sabiduría práctica, repletas de encanto y expresividad, han sido consult...

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by Plato (Author), Robin Waterfield (Translator)In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness, and a brilliant sketch of Socrates him...

Laozi's DAO de Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time - Hardcover

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by Laozi (Author), Ken Liu (Author)A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics--the foundational work of Daoism--by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously enigmatic text. Laozi's Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and prized ideology over experience. By speaking out against the clevernes...

Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body - Hardcover

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by Stephen Menn (Editor), Stephen Menn (Translator), Justin E. H. Smith (Editor)Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical tradition and study and teach in European universities. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, while still a small boy, he was sent from his home in present-day Ghana to Amsterdam. From there he was sent to Germany as a court attendant of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel...