Key Writings, Paperback

Description"Of creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few can hope to equal Arthur Machen." -- H. P. Lovecraft Arthur Machen (1...

John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy...

Reducere. With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Mi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson presents the foundations of Transcendentalism, the belief system in which the divine permeate...

Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the publish...

John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. ...

Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to the Enlightenment explores the social, political and religious facto...

DescriptionA part of Harper Perennial's special "Resistance Library" highlighting classic works that illuminate the "Age of Trump" reissued for a t...

DescriptionThis brief historical introduction to Immanuel Kant explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original contex...

Reducere. Jos Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as Jos Rizal; June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and poly...

Reducere. A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American trans...

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true ha...

The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thi...

Breathing new life into the achievements of Karl Marx, this accessible and jargon-free introduction is a timely reminder of his undiminished influe...

Reducere. DescriptionA scorching expos of the Spanish government's corruption and abuses of power, this novel is famed as a catalyst to the Philippine Revolu...

A polemic writing by the famous ``Red Rosa`` Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contrad...

This unique anthology brings together a marvelous collection of Darwin's most accessible and significant writings, providing the most fully rounded...

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this ph...

Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sen...

Reducere. This essential trilogy gathers Kahlil Gibran's The Madman (1918), The Forerunner (1920), and his masterpiece, The Prophet (1923), which has sold mi...

The first entirely new translation of Galileo's major writings for more than fifty years, this marvelous volume includes selections from all of his...

Reducere. Subtitle: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis is foundational reading for the Christian, concerned as it is w...

"We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully." --Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations ...

Reducere. DescriptionThere is more to your Christian walk than you are experiencing Many writings of the past speak of entering God's rest, the deeper walk, ...

This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are s...

Reducere. National Indie Bestseller The trailblazing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words. Her most essential writings on gender equali...

The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the most important books of the 20th century--a...

Reducere. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science is a collection of essays examining the experiences of Native American tribally controlled colleges and universities...

The only student edition of Calhoun's writings available, this volume offers the Disquisition in its entirety along with two key selections from th...

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance and survive the Nazis Buchenwald conce...

Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geni...

Reducere. "One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."--Boston Globe "A brilliant, original a...

All Christians have the authority to defeat the enemy--but many just don't know how. Jennifer LeClaire goes beyond the basic teachings of spiritual...

Reducere. DescriptionHenry Ford is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half, and produced over 2 million units a year. Time has not diminish...

DescriptionA new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller, " this collection includes...

Description"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy's nativ...

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and eco...

Reducere. DescriptionThe One Source You Can Count Onfor Facts About the Last Days "You also must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will come when lea...

DescriptionA compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure ...

Many reference works offer compilations of critical documents covering individual liberty, local autonomy, constitutional order, and other issues t...

Reducere. The cutting edge of neurolinguistics meets the spiritual wisdom of the ages in a handbook of key words that literally rewire our brains. New discov...

Reducere. Library of America presents an authoritative new text of Hemingway's classic novel, correcting errors, restoring key changes made to Hemingway's or...

Reducere. C. S. Lewis, the great British novelist and Christian apologist, has been credited by many-including the author-for aiding their journey to the Cat...

Reducere. Quickly Find and Understand Key Theological TermsChristianity is a faith built upon the Word and understood through words, both written and spoken,...

Reducere. This test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: The Making of the Modern World. With this book, students can test their...

Reducere. One of the most influential books about children ever published, NurtureShock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a libr...

It contains fifty-one key texts, spanning Freud's entire career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on t...

Reducere. DescriptionShort StoriesF. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist and short...

``I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to ...

Reducere. The timeless wisdom of an ancient Stoic can become a companion for your own spiritual journey. Stoicism is often portrayed as a cheerless, stiff-up...

DescriptionA graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based...

Reducere. 'People do not understand German, but I will not write for them in journalese ...' Karl Kraus (1874-1936) ranks as one the greatest twentieth-centu...

"There's so much to learn and so much to know. It's good to keep moving forward. And yet whatever we have is, in a very profound way, absolutely co...

Reducere. Louise L. Hay, whose writings and talks have brought inspiration, hope, and healing to millions of people around the world, credits The Game of Lif...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Focus of Life, The Mutterings of AOS is a comprehensive treatise written by Austin Osman Spare on key occult concepts he introduced ...

With an ode by Olafur EliassonFollowing Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* *But Were Afraid to Ask, this second volume in the ser...

Reducere. Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.The de...

Reducere. DescriptionDivine Harmony describes Pythagoras's wanderings in ancient Phoenicia, Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and explores key Pythagorean ideas as...

Reducere. A volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the B...

Reducere. DescriptionNEWLY DISCOVERED ADVICE FOR SUCCESS IN TOUGH TIMES FROM THE RENOWNED AUTHOR OF THINK AND GROW RICH It isn't everyday that an opportunity...

Reducere. Throughout history, humans have dreamed of knowing the reason for the existence of the universe. In The Mind of God, physicist Paul Davies explores...

Reducere. 'The stoic, detached, empirical, hard-boiled, penetrating, realist mind of James Burnham is something to behold, to admire, to emulate' - National ...

Reducere. There are more statues of Robert Burns in the United States than there are of any American poet. Scotland's favorite poet has been loved by generat...

Reducere. Michael Fickess has written a paraphrase of a Classic Judeo-Christian text, the Book of Enoch. The Early Church Fathers found this book to be a val...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the fourth edition of Alchemical Symbols. The purpose of this revision is to add more symbols, correct a small number of errors,...

Reducere. THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of o...

Reducere. Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, with di...

Reducere. "Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multifaceted oe...

Reducere. This book is an essential reference for all students of alchemy. Students are often presented with archaic symbols when studying the works of ancie...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough selections from his speeches, homilies, and other writings, this work presents Pope Francis's vision of mission--his understandi...