Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in Chaotic Times by Brigid Delaney
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Tranquillity can be hard to find. The last few years have had most of us struggle with things outside of our control - lockdowns, illness, separation from loved ones, financial hardships. It's easy in times like these to feel overwhelmed, and when the world has turned itself upside down it's hard to fin ...Show more
Happy are You Poor - The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom by Fr Thomas Dubay, SM
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
To the modern mind, the concept of poverty is often confused with destitution. But destitution emphatically is not the Gospel ideal. A love-filled sharing frugality is the message, and Happy Are You Poor explains the meaning of this beatitude lived and taught by Jesus himself. But isn't simplicity in li ...Show more
The Tao of Pooh 40th Anniversary Gift Edition by HOFF BENJAMIN
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
“What’s this you’re writing?… asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table. “The Tao of Pooh,… I replied. “The how of Pooh?… asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written. “The Tao of Pooh,… I replied, poking his paw away with my pencil. “It seems more like ow! of Pooh,… said Pooh, rubbing his ...Show more
Essential Marcus Aurelius by John Piazza; Marcus Aurelius; John P. Piazza; Jacob Needleman
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Tarcher Cornerstone Editions Ser.
This inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and eth ...Show more
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Popular Penguins
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners - A Guide to Living and Dying by Lama Lhanang Rinpoche; Mordy Levine
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Through countless editions and across centuries, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has drawn readers intrigued by the Tibetan Buddhist view of the end of life-that death is the last of a countless series of endings in this lifetime. And after each ending comes a new beginning. The Tibetan Book of the Dead fo ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel. Standing on the deck of a f ...Show more
The Book of Minds by Philip Ball
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries. How then do we even begin to think about 'minds' that are not human? Science now has plenty to say about the properties of mind. In recent decades, the mind - both human and otherwi ...Show more
The Zen of Cat: An A–Z of Japanese feline philosophy by Carla Francis
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
There's no doubt cats are a meaningful feature of Japanese culture. It's believed that felines first appeared in Japan with the arrival of Buddhism, and they've left a giant paw print on the culture. From folklore to fashion, cat shrines to cat islands, what can we learn from these philosophical felines ...Show more
The Bushido Code - Words of Wisdom from Japan's Greatest Samurai by Tadashi Kamiko; William Scott Wilson (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Words of wisdom from great samurai leaders: A collection of inspiring essays and aphorisms from Japan's leading warriorsSamurai warrior leaders had to deal with grim conditions of life, death and survival. But such men were not simply rough uneducated fighters: they often personified the Far Eastern ide ...Show more
The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud; W. D. Robson-Scott (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Psychology Ser.
In The Future of an Illusion, Freud's psychoanalysis of religion is the culmination of a lifelong thought pattern. Freud examines human nature and the role of religion in society, proclaiming that human instincts are destructive to civilization and must be restrained to maintain an orderly society. Reli ...Show more