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Offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. As much poetry as instruction, this title features three hundred aphorisms that address us today as practical guides for civility in an often uncivil world, and may serve as invitations to participate in making an uncivil world as civil as possible.

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A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics

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A wide-ranging reexamination of a foundational tenet of modern democratic society

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Long-standing, award-winning Muslim human rights campaigner Sara Khan courageously takes on the extremists within her faith whose ideology has made it easier for terrorists to recruit young Britons. This important and timely book will be a major news story this autumn.

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The first book to be printed in North America, twenty years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, and now the most expensive book in the world, fetching over $14.2 million at auction. Every page of this extraordinarily influential book, including the translators' preface, is faithfully reproduced in this stunning facsimile.

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"Originally published as Gli inizi della filosofia in Grecia, copyright 2009 by Bollati Boringhieri"--Copyright page.

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The Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as a spiritual classic that has been translated into more than seventy-fiv

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This book on wisdom is BIG not because of its length, but because it is about everything and for everyone.

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"Leading scholars traverse the wide range of political action when "no" is in the picture, analyzing topics such as collective action, antisocialism, empirical science, the negative and the affirmative in Deleuze and Derrida, the "real" and the "clone," Native sovereignty, and Afropessimism"--

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According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better

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Argues the importance of the tension between what the author called Apollonian and Dionysian forces. In this title, the author boldly combines aesthetics and psychology in a creative meditation on the sources of artistic inspiration. It also addresses the problem of nihilism in modern culture.

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Comparative study of Islamic Sufism and East Asian philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism.

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This examination of Simone de Beauvoir's form of existentialism pays special attention to her work, "The Ethics of Ambiguity", in which de Beauvoir draws from many thinkers in the continental tradition to argue that one's own freedom is intertwined with that of others.

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This examination of Simone de Beauvoir's form of existentialism pays special attention to her work, "The Ethics of Ambiguity", in which de Beauvoir draws from many thinkers in the continental tradition to argue that one's own freedom is intertwined with that of others.

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Use the visual arts to facilitate prayer, worship, and education

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This complete 1979 Book of Common Prayer includes a full-color, contemporary soft cover, and an easy-to-read table of contents.

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A book of only 77 words - one word per page, nothing more, nothing less - that intends to inspire, provoke, enlighten, and challenge and change one's worldview. It offers an invitation to take a different look at these 77 key words - to ponder them, to meditate upon them, and to re-evaluate and re-embrace them.

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