Category - Literary Collections
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The...
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All Things are Possible
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Taking the words of Jesus that "With God, all things are possible", he [Shestov] extrapolates a philosophy of possibility or freedom as opposed to ...
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Storytelling: Ideas and Insights from Modern Tales
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Storytelling is a book of ideas. It is a large collection of short essays that identify and analyze timeless ideas and universal insights; insights...
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $4.99 - Original price $4.99Original price $4.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /2018 Reprint of Selections from Emerson's Essays: First Series [1841] and Second Series [1844]. Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerso...
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's...
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The Nicomachean Ethics
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the import...
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The Pocket Epicurean
HardcoverOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus. As long as there has been human life, we've searched for what it m...
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $11.85 - Original price $11.85Original price $11.85$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2021 Hardcover Reprint of Selections from Emerson's Essays: First Series [1841] and Second Series [1844]. Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Wa...
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Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /What Thoreau can teach us about working--why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful Henry at Work invites readers to ...
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Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The "Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita," translated and commented on by Swami Swarupananda, is an early 20th-century rendition of the sacred Hindu scripture int...
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Myth and Meaning: Conversations on Mythology and Life
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A wide-ranging collection of insights from legendary mythologist Joseph Campbell, sourced from rare and previously unpublished interviews What wou...
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Silent Whale Letters: A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called "silent" subjects. An experiment in listening to fr...
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Bhagavad Gita
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In this insightful rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, Swami Nikhilananda provides a profound interpretation of the sacred text. Exploring the timeless...
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History Of Famous Orators: Accomplished Speaker
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cicero is considered to be Rome's greatest orator and prose writer. His writing is some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero intr...
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfuln...
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, ...
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Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meal...
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Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meal...
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Plato's Letters: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
HardcoverOriginal price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive no...
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On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live successful...
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Criminal Testimonial Injustice
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from t...
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The Way of Ch'an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This sweeping collection of new translations paints a brilliant picture of the development of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, China's most radical philosophi...
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Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Life As A Hyphen
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ismail Badjie's collection of essays and short stories offers a deeply personal exploration of his life experience as a man straddling two worlds (...
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