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Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, two of C. S. Lewis's most important and enduring works, are now available in this stunning, collectible hardcover edition. The most popular of C. S. Lewis's works of non-fiction, Mere Christianity, has sold several million copies worldwide... -
![The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn]()
The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn Adventure of the Mind and SpiritFather Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers all him B, but his enemies say he’s something else: the Antichrist... -
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Scandalous Risks by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1963, when traditional values are coming under attack, a young woman in her twenties, Venetia Flaxton, becomes disastrously involved with her best friend's father, the powerful, dynamic but ultimately mysterious Dean of Starbridge Cathedral. Yet, as a married man and a senior Churchman, Aysgarth has nothing to offer her but an admiration which spirals out of control into an obsessive love... -
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المجنون by Kahlil Gibran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsالترجمة الوحيدة التي أقرها جبرانThis thought-provoking collection of strange, subtle, but meaningful parables casts an ironic light on the beliefs, hopes, and vanities of humankind...Categorized as:
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![The Second Coming by Walker Percy]()
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse... -
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Amongst Women by John McGahern
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMoran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past... -
![The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch]()
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA sly, witty, and beautifully orchestrated tale about the difficulty of being good Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: he has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Consumed with guilt, Edward experiences a debilitating crisis of conscience... -
![Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig]()
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in... -
![The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi]()
The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author’s native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury... -
![Islam Between East and West by Alija Izetbegović]()
Islam Between East and West by Alija Izetbegović
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIslam between east and west is not a book of theology, it deal with dogmas, institutions and teachings of Islam with the aim of establishing the place of Islam in the general spectrum of ideas... -
![Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris]()
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsMere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion...Categorized as:
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![... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager by Viktor E. Frankl]()
... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager by Viktor E. Frankl
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsDer 1945 niedergelegte Bericht »Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager« und die 1946 geschriebene dramatische Skizze »Synchronisation in Birkenwald«, die in diesem Band zusammengefaßt sind, wollen nicht Mitleid erregen oder Anklage erheben. Noch weniger geht es um die Situation des Grauens...Categorized as:
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![From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger]()
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew, Henry Kissinger
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFew gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965... -
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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives...Categorized as:
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![The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi]()
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to delve into the minds and motives of oppressors and oppressed alike... -
![Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen]()
Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA beautiful book, as beautiful in the simple clarity of its wisdom as in the terrible beauty of the transformation to which it calls us... -
![A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Wayne Koestenbaum]()
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, Wayne Koestenbaum
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves... -
![The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs]()
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured... -
![Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama XIV]()
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama XIV
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves...Categorized as:
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![Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki]()
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 31 ratings"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic...Categorized as:
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Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIncorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe’s original translation Footnoted remarks in the earlier...Categorized as:
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![Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm]()
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941...Categorized as:
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![Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises]()
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Human Action, Mises starts from the ideas set forth in his Theory and History that all actions and decisions are based on human needs, wants, and desires and continues deeper and further to explain how studying this human action is not only a legitimate science (praxeology) but how that science is based on the foundation of free-market economics... -
![The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull]()
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBollingen Series XX. Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix...Categorized as:
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![Animal Liberation by Peter Singer]()
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past... -
![The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler]()
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsNearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that "the very motion of our life is towards happiness...Categorized as:
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![Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg]()
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind...Categorized as:
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Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals...Categorized as:
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![The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers]()
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAmoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature...Categorized as:
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![The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz]()
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsIn The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love...Categorized as:
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