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Classical Inter/Faces eBook Series

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  • Delusions of Invulnerability

    Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece,China and Today

    by Professor Sir G.E.R. Lloyd ...
    Series series Classical Inter/Faces
    How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they worked? How was a yearning for invulnerability reconciled with a sense of human frailty? In each ... Read more

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    by Eknath Easwaran ...
    Series Book 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Read more

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  • The Book of Five Rings

    by Musashi Miyamoto ...
    Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and include a bonus link to the free audio book.Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life ... Read more

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  • The Science of Breathing

    by Yogi Ramacharaka, Digital Fire ...
    First published in 1903, ‘The Science of Breath’ is the first of many titles on yoga and Hinduism by the mysterious Yogi Ramacharaka. There are no official records of this author and many scholars believe that he did not exist and the name is instead a pseudonym for the true writer, William Walker Atkinson, the famed occultist and pioneer of the American New Thought movement. This manual on the ... Read more

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  • The Ethics (Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata)

    by Spinoza, Benedict de ...
    The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as "When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it", "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death", and "The human Mind cannot be absolutely ... Read more

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  • Symposium

    by By Plato ...
    Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and is the origin of the concept of Platonic love. Love is examined in a sequence of speeches by men attending a symposium, or drinking party. Each man must deliver an encomium, a speech in praise of Love (Eros). The party takes place at the house of the tragedian Agathon in ... Read more

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  • Bhagavad-gita As It Is

    by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ...
    The largest-selling edition of the Gita in the Western world, Bhagavad-gita As It Is is more than a book. It is alive with knowledge and devotion; thus it has the power to change your life for the better.  Bhagavad-gita is knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth to the other: These five truths are Krishna, or God, the individual soul, the material world, action in this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Secret of the Golden Flower

    Ancient Wisdom Publications (New Translation

    by Wang Chongyang, Andras Nagy (Editor) ...
    A Chinese classic of the "inner alchemy" of Taoism, this book was first translated by Richard Wilhelm (also translator, in the 1920s, of the Chinese philosophical classic the I Ching). Wilhelm, was German, and his translations from Chinese to German were later translated to English by Cary F. Baynes. According to Wilhelm, LuDongbin was the main originator of the material presented in the book ... Read more

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  • Nature

    by R. W. EMERSON ...
    "Nature" by using Ralph Waldo Emerson is a seminal painting that explores the inherent connection between the individual and the natural international. Emerson, a distinguished transcendentalist philosopher, advocates for a profound communion with nature as a way of achieving non secular enlightenment and self-recognition. In this essay, Emerson contends that nature serves as a supply of concept, ... Read more

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  • The Tao Teh King (Complete )(Free Aduiobook Link)

    by Lao-Tse, Translated by James Legge ...
    Series series Greenhouse Classics
    Laozi is traditionally regarded as the author of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), though the identity of its author(s) and/or compiler(s) has been debated throughout history. It is one of the most significant treatises in Chinese cosmogony. As with most other ancient Chinese philosophers, Laozi often explains his ideas by way of paradox, analogy, appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition, symmetry ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare

    The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-ch'ueh-shan Texts

    by Roger T. Ames ...
    The most widely read military classic in human history, newly translated and revised in accordance with newly discovered materials of unprecedented historical significance.Fluid, crisp and rigorously faithful to the original, this new text is destined to stand as the definitive version of this cornerstone work of Classical Chinese. Of compelling importance not only to students of Chinese history ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of War

    by Arcturus Publishing ...
    The Art of War enjoys enduring popularity among readers. It is a classic study of strategy and how to shape your tactics to cope with an ever-evolving situation - in some cases how to fight without actually committing yourself to battle. ... Read more

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