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  • Montaigne

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Will Stone ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    This classic biography of Michel de Montaigne—one of the founding fathers of humanism—is a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom and tolerance.Written by one of the 20th century’s most popular authors during WWII, Montaigne is a passionate and readable biography of the great Renaissance humanist. Stefan Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne’s age—when Europe was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

    A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

    by Michael Sims ...
    Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.Working from nineteenth-century letters and diaries by Thoreau's family, friends, and students, Sims charts Henry's course from his time at ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Parfit

    A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas ... Read more

    $23.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • Inventor of the Future

    The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

    One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • At the Existentialist Café

    Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

    Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell.Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 天台智者大師全集 六妙法門 疏文斷句

    by 王 穆提 ...
    天台大師於都下瓦官寺略出此法門六妙門者,蓋是內行之根本,三乘得道之要逕。故釋迦初詣道樹,跏趺坐草,內思安般:一、數;二、隨;三、止;四、觀;五、還;六、淨,因此萬行開發,降魔成道。當知佛為物軌,示跡若斯,三乘正士豈不同遊此路?所言六者,即是數法。約數明禪,故言六也。如佛或約一數辯禪,所謂一行三昧;或約二數,謂一止,二觀;或約三數,謂三三昧;或約四數,所謂四禪;或約五數,謂五門禪;或約六數,謂六妙門;或約七數,謂七依定;或約八數,謂八背捨;或約九數,謂九次第定;或約十數,謂十禪支。如是等,乃至百千萬億阿僧祇不可說諸三昧門,悉是約數說諸禪也。雖數有多少,窮其法相,莫不悉相收攝。以眾生機悟不同,故有增減之數,分別利物。今言六者,即是約數法而標章也。妙者,其意乃多,若論正意,即是滅諦涅槃。故滅四行中言滅、止、妙、離。涅槃非斷非常,有而難契,無而易得,故言妙也。六法能通,故名為門。門雖有六,會妙不殊 ... Read more

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  • The Rebel's Clinic

    The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

    by Adam Shatz ...
    Named a best book of 2024 so far by The New York Times | The New Yorker | VultureLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction“Nimble and engrossing . . . [An] exemplary work of public intellectualism.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post"Undoubtedly the best [biography of Fanon] . . . A remarkable achievement." —Robert J. C. Young, Los Angeles Review ... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Life in a Jewish Family: An Autobiography, 1891-1916

    by Edith Stein ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Works of Edith Stein
    This initial volume of the Collected Works of Edith Stein offers, for the first time in English, the unabridged biography of Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), depicting her life as a child and young adult. Her text ends abruptly because the Nazi SS arrested, then deported, her to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. Translater Josephine Koeppel, OCD. This ebook contains a fully ... Read more

    $26.95 USD

  • Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus

    by Thomas Taylor ...
    First published in 1825, "Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus" is a short book of translations of fragments of Proclus by Thomas Taylor, the English Neoplatonist and translator of Aristotle, Plato and Orpheus.Proclus Lycaeus (412 - 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Classical philosophers. He set forth one of the most ... Read more

    $0.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • TIBETAN SAGE

    TIBETAN SAGEBy T. Lobsang RampaSynopsisExplore the depths of the unknown with the masterful Lama as he probes the history of the Earth -- Past, Present and Distant Future! Along with his trusted guided Rampa reenters the cave of the ancients and is taken on a tour of the Hall of Records. Here he is permitted to observe ancient events as well as view scenes from our planet's chaotic future soon to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Autobiography of A Yogi

    Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Wolf Messing: The True Story of Russia`s Greatest Psychic

    In this, the first biography and personal memoir of WOLF MESSING to appear in the West, Tatiana Lungin limns a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the twentieth century.Born a Polish Jew near Warsaw, Messing ran away from home at the age of eleven and soon discovered his psychic gifts. Supporting himself by performing mind-reading acts in Berlin theaters, at fourteen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betraying Spinoza

    The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The Last Man Takes LSD

    Foucault and the End of Revolution

    Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politicsPart intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way we think about both Michel Foucault and modern progressive politics. One fateful day in May 1975, Foucault dropped acid in the southern California desert. In letters reproduced here, he described it as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Son of Life

    by Kalle Mahto ...
    We will never find a rich life if we are seeking it in the wrong places. True glory resides within us.Mystique interests people because it is so rare. You need to have come far in your spiritual path to understand this almost forgotten, yet baffling, topic. This book speaks of large riddles, such as who we are and where humanity is going. This book sheds light on different religions, where they ... Read more

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  • Meditations

    Wisdom from one of the greatest philosophical minds in all of Roman historyDivided into twelve books, these meditations chronicle Aurelius’s personal quest for self-improvement. This enduring text from one of history’s greatest warriors and leaders has been compared to St. Augustine’s Confessions for its timelessness, clarity, and candor. These writings, composed between 161 and 180 CE, set forth ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walden

    This edition of Walden is specially formatted with illustrations and a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents.Henry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Mr. Thoreau was an author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, transcendentalist, and philosopher. Thoreaus works intertwine his love of history philosophy and nature. Many of his theories about ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Price of Peace

    Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal* ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Die, My Love

    A True Story of Revenge, Murder, and Two Texas Sisters

    by Kathryn Casey ...
    The day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on Earth for respected, well-liked college professor Fred Jablin. That morning, a neighbor discovered his body lying in a pool of blood in the driveway of Jablin's Virginia home. Police immediately turned their attentions to the victim's ex-wife, Piper, a petite, pretty Texas lawyer who had lost a bitter custody battle and would do anything to get her ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How to Live

    Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

    Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Story of Philosophy

    by Will Durant ...
    This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books of our time.Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

    by Daisy Dunn ...
    “A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to LiveWhen Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $5.99 USD