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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche ...

Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...

'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the
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Experiencing the Next World Now

by Michael Grosso, Ph.D. ...

From the scientific underground of psychic research comes a stunning report on the evidence for life after death. But all the proof in the world is nothing when compared to actual experience with the place beyond. This book takes the reader to the next level -- and offers a more personal kind of journey. If there is a "next world," it must be nearby, and the path leads through the gateways of our ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

From the scientific underground of psychic research comes a stunning report on the evidence for life after death. But all the proof in the world is nothing when compared to actual experience with the place beyond. This book takes the reader to the next level -- and offers a more personal kind of journey. If there is a "next world," it must be nearby, and the path leads through the gateways of our
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Reality

A Very Short Introduction

by Jan Westerhoff ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. It is a question that, due to such films as The Matrix, has also made its way into popular culture. But it is not just a question philosophers ask. It is also asked by scientists when they investigate whether the fundamental constituents of matter are actually 'out there' or just a mere abstraction ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. It is a question that, due to such films as The Matrix, has also made its way into popular culture. But it is not just a question philosophers ask. It is also asked by scientists when they investigate whether the fundamental constituents of matter are actually 'out there' or just a mere abstraction
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Leibniz and the Monadology

by Anthony Savile ...

Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
Leibniz is a major figure in western philosophy and, with Descartes and Spinoza, one of the most influential philosophers of the Rationalist School. The Monadology is his most famous work and one of the most important works of modern philosophy.Leibniz and the Monadology introduces and assesses:*Leibniz's life and the background to the Monadology*the ideas and text of the Monadology*Leibniz's ... Read more

$59.99 CAD

Leibniz is a major figure in western philosophy and, with Descartes and Spinoza, one of the most influential philosophers of the Rationalist School. The Monadology is his most famous work and one of the most important works of modern philosophy.Leibniz and the Monadology introduces and assesses:*Leibniz's life and the background to the Monadology*the ideas and text of the Monadology*Leibniz's
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Schopenhauer

A Very Short Introduction

by Christopher Janaway ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will - a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will - a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind
... Read more
The Secret Science of Wellness: Energy and Elements – The Hidden Physics and Chemistry of Mind-Body Medicine

THE SECRET SCIENCE OF WELLNESS, #11

by The Secret Science of Wellness ...

Series Book 11 - THE SECRET SCIENCE OF WELLNESS
Description:Step into the elemental forces that govern your health. Energy and Elements explores the hidden interplay between physics, chemistry, and consciousness, revealing how fundamental energies and natural elements shape your body, brain, and healing capacity. Guided by a glowing elder cloaked in fire and wisdom, this journey bridges quantum energy, atomic interactions, and mind-body ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Description:Step into the elemental forces that govern your health. Energy and Elements explores the hidden interplay between physics, chemistry, and consciousness, revealing how fundamental energies and natural elements shape your body, brain, and healing capacity. Guided by a glowing elder cloaked in fire and wisdom, this journey bridges quantum energy, atomic interactions, and mind-body
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Cosmogenesis

An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe

by Brian Thomas Swimme ...

**A Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize WinnerFrom the host and cocreator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness**The understanding that the universe has been expanding since its fiery beginning 14 billion years ago and has developed into stars, galaxies, life, and human consciousness ... Read more

$18.39 CAD

**A Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize WinnerFrom the host and cocreator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness**The understanding that the universe has been expanding since its fiery beginning 14 billion years ago and has developed into stars, galaxies, life, and human consciousness
... Read more
Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity

by Brady Bowman ...

Hegel's doctrines of absolute negativity and 'the Concept' are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the systematic core of dialectical thought. Brady Bowman explores the interrelations between these doctrines, their implications for Hegel's critical understanding of classical logic and ontology, natural science and mathematics as forms of 'finite cognition', and ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

Hegel's doctrines of absolute negativity and 'the Concept' are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the systematic core of dialectical thought. Brady Bowman explores the interrelations between these doctrines, their implications for Hegel's critical understanding of classical logic and ontology, natural science and mathematics as forms of 'finite cognition', and
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From Science to God

A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness

by Peter Russell ...

From Science to God offers a crash course in the nature of reality. It is the story of Peter Russell's lifelong exploration into the nature of consciousness — how he went from being a strict atheist, studying mathematics and physics at Cambridge University, to realizing a profound personal synthesis of the mystical and scientific. Using his own tale of curiosity and exploration as the book’s ... Read more

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From Science to God offers a crash course in the nature of reality. It is the story of Peter Russell's lifelong exploration into the nature of consciousness — how he went from being a strict atheist, studying mathematics and physics at Cambridge University, to realizing a profound personal synthesis of the mystical and scientific. Using his own tale of curiosity and exploration as the book’s
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Solving the Communion Enigma

What Is To Come

by Whitley Strieber ...

The bestselling author probes the ultimate significance behind today's increasing reports of UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, and other unexplained phenomena-and what they mean for humanity's immediate future.In 1987 writer Whitley Strieber exposed the world to the truth about alien abduction in his landmark memoir, Communion. For the first time in years, Strieber revisits his encounter with ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

The bestselling author probes the ultimate significance behind today's increasing reports of UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, and other unexplained phenomena-and what they mean for humanity's immediate future.In 1987 writer Whitley Strieber exposed the world to the truth about alien abduction in his landmark memoir, Communion. For the first time in years, Strieber revisits his encounter with
... Read more
Saint Joan of New York

A Novel About God and String Theory

by Mark Alpert ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of physics. But as she tackles the complex equations, she falls prey to disturbing visions of a divine ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and the efforts to unify the laws of physics. But as she tackles the complex equations, she falls prey to disturbing visions of a divine
... Read more
Love and Law

by Ernest Holmes ...

Early lectures and private lessons from celebrated spiritual teacher Ernest Holmes, illustrating the key concepts behind his influential ideas.Ernest Holmes was a beloved teacher and philosopher with a disarmingly simple message: Change your thinking, and you will change your life. There is a creative law in the universe, Holmes reasoned, and it is available to each of us right now through our ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Early lectures and private lessons from celebrated spiritual teacher Ernest Holmes, illustrating the key concepts behind his influential ideas.Ernest Holmes was a beloved teacher and philosopher with a disarmingly simple message: Change your thinking, and you will change your life. There is a creative law in the universe, Holmes reasoned, and it is available to each of us right now through our
... Read more
Horns of the Goddess

by Dolores Cannon ...

In 1983, Dolores was working with several individuals who volunteered for sessions to help her hone her craft in hypnosis. Over the years she had developed her own technique of hypnosis where the client would go into a very deep state of trance and was able to re-live the past life they were seeing. When these individuals went back to a time in the past, it would be like they were actually there. ... Read more

$17.85 CAD

In 1983, Dolores was working with several individuals who volunteered for sessions to help her hone her craft in hypnosis. Over the years she had developed her own technique of hypnosis where the client would go into a very deep state of trance and was able to re-live the past life they were seeing. When these individuals went back to a time in the past, it would be like they were actually there.
... Read more
Being and Time

by Martin Heidegger ...

First published in the original German in 1927, this translation first published in the US by Harper and Row Publishers in 1962, public domain. "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and ... Read more

$0.99 CAD

First published in the original German in 1927, this translation first published in the US by Harper and Row Publishers in 1962, public domain. "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and
... Read more
Il mistero delle origini dell'uomo

Un viaggio nel tempo per comprendere chi siamo e dove stiamo andando

by Massimo Polidoro ...

Sin dall’inizio dei tempi, l’umanità ha tessuto leggende, creato cosmologie e formulato ipotesi scientifiche nel tentativo di capire da dove veniamo e dove siamo diretti. Indagare il mistero delle origini dell’uomo è un viaggio affascinante e multidisciplinare: dalle prime spiegazioni mitiche, passando per le rivoluzioni introdotte dalla teoria dell’evoluzione di Darwin, Massimo Polidoro ci ... Read more

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Sin dall’inizio dei tempi, l’umanità ha tessuto leggende, creato cosmologie e formulato ipotesi scientifiche nel tentativo di capire da dove veniamo e dove siamo diretti. Indagare il mistero delle origini dell’uomo è un viaggio affascinante e multidisciplinare: dalle prime spiegazioni mitiche, passando per le rivoluzioni introdotte dalla teoria dell’evoluzione di Darwin, Massimo Polidoro ci
... Read more
Using Words and Things

Language and Philosophy of Technology

by Mark Coeckelbergh ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are—is re-thought in a way ... Read more

$92.99 CAD

This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology—that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are—is re-thought in a way
... Read more
Blessed Lanfranc: The Past Life of Swami Sri Yukteswar, Guru of Paramhansa Yogananda

by Richard Salva ...

A New View of Swami Sri YukteswarWe know a lot from Autobiography of a Yogi about Sri Yukteswar’s personality in his final incarnation on earth, but what was he like in past lives? Was he, perhaps, gentler and more approachable? And how might that knowledge affect how we attune with him today?Paramhansa Yogananda said that he had been William the Conqueror in a past life, and that Sri Yukteswar ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

A New View of Swami Sri YukteswarWe know a lot from Autobiography of a Yogi about Sri Yukteswar’s personality in his final incarnation on earth, but what was he like in past lives? Was he, perhaps, gentler and more approachable? And how might that knowledge affect how we attune with him today?Paramhansa Yogananda said that he had been William the Conqueror in a past life, and that Sri Yukteswar
... Read more
Albert Camus

A Very Short Introduction

by Oliver Gloag ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life. From a poor fatherless settler in French-Algeria to the winner of the ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life. From a poor fatherless settler in French-Algeria to the winner of the
... Read more
Many Lives, Many Masters

The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. ...

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author.As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas ... Read more

$26.00 CAD

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author.As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas
... Read more
Bergson

Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

by Professor Keith Ansell Pearson ...

A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual
... Read more
Conscious

Fulfilling our Higher Evolutionary Potential

by Alan Baiss ...

Conscious asks about our human potential to achieve a transformation in consciousness, which might be both inevitable and essential if we are going to continue our human adventure.This book is an anthology of the responses that were given to interview questions for the documentary film Conscious: Fulfilling our Higher Evolutionary Potential (released 2017). Each chapter reflects the thoughts of a ... Read more

$4.59 CAD

Conscious asks about our human potential to achieve a transformation in consciousness, which might be both inevitable and essential if we are going to continue our human adventure.This book is an anthology of the responses that were given to interview questions for the documentary film Conscious: Fulfilling our Higher Evolutionary Potential (released 2017). Each chapter reflects the thoughts of a
... Read more
The Physicist and the Philosopher

Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

by Jimena Canales ...

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be
... Read more
Essence of the Heart Sutra

The Dalai Lama's Heart of Wisdom Teachings

by Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. ...

For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Buddhists. This concise text, so rich and laden with meaning, concentrates the very heart of Buddhism into a powerful and evocative teaching on the interdependence of all reality.In Essence of the Heart Sutra, the Dalai Lama masterfully unpacks the Heart Sutra so that any reader can benefit from its ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Buddhists. This concise text, so rich and laden with meaning, concentrates the very heart of Buddhism into a powerful and evocative teaching on the interdependence of all reality.In Essence of the Heart Sutra, the Dalai Lama masterfully unpacks the Heart Sutra so that any reader can benefit from its
... Read more
Causation and Explanation

by Stathis Psillos ...

Series series Central Problems of Philosophy
What is the nature of causation? How is causation linked with explanation? And can there be an adequate theory of explanation? These questions and many others are addressed in this unified and rigorous examination of the philosophical problems surrounding causation, laws and explanation. Part 1 of this book explores Hume's views on causation, theories of singular causation, and counterfactual and ... Read more

$83.99 CAD

What is the nature of causation? How is causation linked with explanation? And can there be an adequate theory of explanation? These questions and many others are addressed in this unified and rigorous examination of the philosophical problems surrounding causation, laws and explanation. Part 1 of this book explores Hume's views on causation, theories of singular causation, and counterfactual and
... Read more

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