Nature and Other Essays

DescriptionA collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including "Nature, " "Self-Reliance, " "Love, " and "Art." Ral...

Reducere. Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universa...

Reducere. French philosopher Henri Bergson produced four major works in his lifetime, the second of which, "Matter and Memory, " is a philosophical and compl...

Matter and Memory: An Essay on the Relation of Body and Spirit, is a complex exploration of human nature and the spirituality of memory. In this wo...

Reducere. Matter and Memory: An Essay on the Relation of Body and Spirit, is a complex exploration of human nature and the spirituality of memory. In this wo...

Reducere. This complete collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays offers the towering wisdom and intellectual prowess. This edition contains Emerson's most ...

Reducere. Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the na...

DescriptionWhat happens when we have second thoughts about the epistemic standing of our beliefs, when we stop to check on beliefs which we have al...

Reducere. From the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate searc...

DescriptionThis book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and phi...

Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Mate...

Reducere. The Face of the Earth & Other Imaginings Those who are acquainted with Blackwood's work will know that he did not write simple ghost stories. From ...

In Theological Territories, David Bentley Hart, one of America's most eminent contemporary writers on religion, reflects on the state of theology a...

Reducere. In the classic nature work, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types ...

Reducere. Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 99 essays in Living in the Now provide practical wisdom that will help you live in this world as the spiritual being that you are. T...

Reducere. The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic lite...

Reducere. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also ...

Reducere. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Benedictine monk and the second Norman archbishop of Canterbury, is regarded as one of the most important philoso...

Reducere. False Prophet is the official journal of the Tempel ov Blood. Now in its Fifth Edition, this authorized Tempel ov Blood publication sanctioned for ...

Reducere. "Devastating in its use of cold logic, " (The Independent), the classic essay collection that expresses the freethinker's views to religion and cha...

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosop...

Reducere. From the great popularizer of alternative medicine, here is a collection of essays about his travels to South America in the early 1970s in search ...

Reducere. As humanity expands its presence into space and ultimately settles beyond earth permanently, what freedoms can people expect? On the one hand space...

DescriptionThe year's finest mathematical writing from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing ...

Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is a forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the natur...

Reducere. "Fourteen essays and articles and three short stories that will hit you right between the eyes. Crews writing is informed by a deep love of languag...

Reducere. Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes her husband, who li...

Contributor(s): Editor: E. M. StandingAuthor: Maria MontessoriE.M. Standing edits a compilation of essays by Maria Montessori and others on religio...

Reducere. E.M. Standing edits a compilation of essays by Maria Montessori and others on religious education for children. Dr. Montessori describes the need f...

Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the ``ultimate reality.``In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxle...

Reducere. From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and ...

Reducere. A two-volume hardcover set In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays--two for each weekly portion--open new horizons in Jewish biblical...

"I've gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a mes...

Few other economists have been read and cited as often as R.H. Coase has been, even though, as he admits, "most economists have a different way of ...

Reducere. David Kline came upon a sleeping woodchuck one summer day as he walked the land near his farm. In a gesture that speaks eloquently of Kline's relat...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest...

Reducere. DescriptionSanta Fe, October 1984. Many of the most accomplished creative minds in science--including four Nobel laureates--gather to create an ins...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled ...

Some of the earliest feature films were derived from classic literature. Even today, most of the movies we see are adaptations of one kind or anoth...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter WilbergListening is clearly central to the practice of both counselling and psychotherapy. Given this, it is quite ex...

In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary ...

Reducere. Britain's best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, w...

Reducere. Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life; he was...

Reducere. New and enlarged edition.Transpersonal Psychology concerns the study of those states, processes, and events in which people experience a deeper sen...

Reducere. Charles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buff...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. Her poem...

"What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, eel, newt...

DescriptionSacred Possessions is an unprecedented collection of thirteen comparative and interdisciplinary essays exploring the cross-cultural dyna...

". . . rich in informative and comparative analysis . . . Considering the number and range of themes, the essays complement each other remarkably w...

DescriptionRon Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of li...

Contributor(s): Author: XunziTranslator: Eric L. HuttonIntroduction by: Eric L. HuttonThis is the first complete, one-volume English translation of...

"One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers." -- The Guardian This modern...

Reducere. "The insect-world is altogether a world of goblins and fairies." - "S mi"As Lafcadio Hearn observes in his essay "Insects in Greek Poetry", "the ca...

Reducere. American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kim...

DescriptionJohn Muir ( April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains, " was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, envi...

Reducere. Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from...

Reducere. Examines every category of occult phenomena from ESP to Eastern ritual and explores the basic laws of magic, relating them to the natural laws of t...

Current, authoritative, and produced by the expert cartographers at National Geographic, this best-selling United States atlas is newly updated wit...

Reducere. This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the st...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Reducere. DescriptionThe studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using li...

Reducere. DescriptionThe transformative power of imagination, the elusive dream world of the unconscious, our changing relationship to nature, and the enduri...

Reducere. Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bay...

Reducere. Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to...

Reducere. Composer John Luther Adams makes his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has created a unique musical world grounded in the ...

Reducere. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is a stirring autobiography by the great American naturalist, John Muir."When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond ...

Reducere. Pete Dunne has been watching birds since he was seven years old. But not just watching--deeply absorbing every nuance of color, markings, shape, fl...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote,...