Chronological Period/Modern
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Genesis Revisited
$9.99 Add to cartModern Technology . . . or Knowledge of the Ancients?
Space travel . . . Genetic engineering . . . Computer science . . . Astounding achievements as new as tomorrow. But stunning recent evidence pro
- Series: Earth Chronicles
- Author: Sitchin, Zecharia
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0380761599
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062397346
- Language: English
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America
Scandinavia has always been a world ap
- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699207
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
$25.00 Add to cart“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062410660
- Language: English
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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living
$12.95 Add to cart“A teacher is never a giver of truth–he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.”–Bruce Lee
Within the pages of Striking Thoug- Author: Lee, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 15, 2002
- ISBN10: 0804834717
- Language: English
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Native American Wisdom
$16.00 Add to cartWe recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection wit… [more below]
- Series: Classic Wisdom Collections
- Author: Mengelkoch, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0931432782
- Language: English
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Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
$18.99 Add to cartIn order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and
- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1622037529
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
C
- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$53.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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Being and Time
$79.95 Add to cartThe publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and… [more below]
- Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1438432755
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality
$19.95 Read moreA concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopher
Ken Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of ou- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2001
- ISBN10: 1570628556
- Language: English
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The Jesuits: A History
$27.95 Read moreThe most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world
Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus–more commonl- Author: Friedrich, Markus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 872
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0691226202
- Language: English
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Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for New Planetary Humanism
$13.99 Add to cartThis entirely new Humanist Manifesto is designed to address the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. Providing a strong defense of scientific naturalism and technology, it i… [more below]
- Author: Kurtz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 157392783X
- Language: English
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Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
$16.99 Read moreA New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country Must-Read Book of 2022 * A Fashionista Summer Read
“Smart, funny, and impressively thorough.”–The C
- Author: Hyland, V?ronique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063050838
- Language: English
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gutting, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198830785
- Language: English
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Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one’s daily life
With Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to “destroy, mercilessly . .- Series: Compass
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140194738
- Language: English
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Bergsonism
$27.95 Add to cartWhat is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant of contemporary philosophers, this question of “novelty” is the major problem posed by Bergson’s work
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299078
- Language: English
