EM Cioran In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster...

Milan KunderaA story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th-century being, offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations. Encompasses...

Michael A Singer What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity?...

Paulo Coelho How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are? The Witch of Portobello is the story of...

Maurice BlonchotModern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How...

Paulo CoelhoThe narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is...

Antony FlewIn There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God...

Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...

Stephen Jay GouldTime's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological TimeRarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and...

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks One of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose—as a partnership with God...

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsMitchel ResnickDoes every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly,...

Paulo CoelhoA Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our FutureThe enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his...