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The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $26.95
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $26.95
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was... Read more >
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The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Written by Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $24.95
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in... Read more >
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Written by Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $24.95
In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in... Read more >
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Left in Dark Times
A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $25.00
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have... Read more >
A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $25.00
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have... Read more >
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The Art of War
Written by Sun Tzu
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $6.99
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most... Read more >
Written by Sun Tzu
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $6.99
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most... Read more >
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Zen and Now
On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Written by Mark Richardson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $25.00
On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Written by Mark Richardson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $25.00
Zen and Now is a vivid chronicle of a journalist’s heartfelt and determined journey to reconnect with a beloved American classic.
In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that would become the inspiration for Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a powerful...
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The Power of Myth
Written by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1991
Price: $14.95
Finally available in a popularly priced, non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal for the college market and general reader alike, this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. Read more >
Written by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1991
Price: $14.95
Finally available in a popularly priced, non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal for the college market and general reader alike, this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. Read more >
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The Sunflower
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.95
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between... Read more >
On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Written by Simon Wiesenthal
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $14.95
While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between... Read more >
The Myth of Sisyphus
And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $12.95
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And Other Essays
Written by Albert Camus
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $12.95
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $18.00
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of... Read more >
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Peter Gay
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $18.00
One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of... Read more >
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Awakening the Buddha Within
Eight Steps to Enlightenment
Written by Lama Surya Das
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1998
Price: $15.95
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of... Read more >
Eight Steps to Enlightenment
Written by Lama Surya Das
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 15, 1998
Price: $15.95
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of... Read more >
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