Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
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The LawsIn The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form a code of conduct for all aspects of life in his ideal...
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The Birth of PurgatoryIn The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of...
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Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABCIn Wishful Thinking, the first book in his much-loved lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner puts the language of God, the universe, and the human spirit under his wry linguistic microscope. In his often ironic and always keen-sighted reflections on such terms as agnostic, envy, love,...
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Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love, and HappinessImbued with a friendly tone and pithy wisdom, this handsome handbook to approaching life in a better way includes six of His Holiness The Dalai Lama's most accessible and inspirational public lectures. Following each talk are the original question-and-answer sessions in which His Holiness...
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The Daily Bible 30 Days Through the Bible: Understanding the Whole Story of God's WordImagine being able to read the Bible from cover to cover in a month... Now you can do the next-best thing This fast-paced tour of God's Word will rejuvenate your Bible reading for years to come. As you travel through carefully selected portions of...
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Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and EconomicsHunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In...
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Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible WorldHumans are existential animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our ability to ponder the big questions about death and meaning and the anxiety that these questions can provoke have motivated us to be a species not...
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Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and DisasterHumanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let...
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Nietzsche: The Man and His PhilosophyHollingdale's biography remains the single best account of the life and works for the student or nonspecialist. This classic biography of Nietzsche was first published in the 1960s and was enthusiastically reviewed at the time. Long out of print, it is now reissued with...
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Wild Truth Journal-Pictures of God: 50 Life Lessons from the Scriptures for Junior Highers and Middle SchoolersHere's a devotional Bible-study journal for junior highers that uses metaphors--or "pictures"--taken straight from Scripture to reveal God's nature. By picturing God as artist, baby, dad, eagle, jealous lover, lion, and so forth, students will discover who God is, what he does -- and...
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A Pocket Philosophical DictionaryHere is the only available English translation of one of the landmarks of European Enlightenment thought, Voltaire's 1764 edition of A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary. Highly entertaining and still highly relevant, the "dictionary" actually consists of a sequence of short essays, arranged in alphabetical order,...
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan WitchcraftHere is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account...
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The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient GreeceGreek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts - stories of mortal women's couplings with gods; rituals like the basilinna's marriage to Dionysus; beliefs in the impregnating power of snakes and deities; the unusual birth stories of Pythagoras, Plato, and Alexander; and more. In...
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Leibniz: A Very Short IntroductionGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow human beings through the...
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Giles of Rome's on Ecclesiastical Power: A Medieval Theory of World GovernmentGiles of Rome was the archbishop of Bourges and a loyal champion of Pope Boniface VIII during the Franco-papal crisis of 1296-1303. On Ecclesiastical Power was written at the height of the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of France and...
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Genius: A Very Short IntroductionGenius is the name we give to a quality of work that transcends fashion, celebrity, fame, and reputation. Somehow, genius abolishes both the time and the place of its origin. Shakespeare's plays and Mozart's melodies and harmonies continue to move people in languages and...
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ConfessionsGarry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine's Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills's translation of the entire work is...
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The Samaritan PentateuchFrom the introductory. For several years prior to my tour of Palestine in 1902, I had noted with interest the accounts, in books on biblical antiquities, of the Holy Scroll at Nablus. This manuscript, containing the Pentateuch, is believed to be the oldest manuscript...
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Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and PracticesFour hundred million people call themselves Buddhists today. Yet most Westerners know little about this powerful, Eastern-spawned faith. How did it begin? What do its adherents believe? Why are so many Westerners drawn to it? Essential Buddhism responds to these questions and many more,...
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The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on MetaphysicsFounded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism wasphilosophy's first step into the modern era. Thisvolume contains the essential statements ofRationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, whobegan it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression."Author: Rene Descartes, Benedict De Spinoza, Gottfried...
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