Andrew Neher In this philosophical discussion Neher relates the lives of prominent 19th and 20th century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism....

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,...

Per Schlingmann and Kjell A Nordstrom This is where it happens: in the cities! The planet trembles, and through something that can be likened to human gravity, we end up...

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...

A ParthasarathyThe vedanta treatise expounds the ancient philosophy of the vedas. It presents the eternal principles of life and living. Living is a technique that needs to be learnt and...

Jostein Gaarder A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scholar, or a transcript of what...

Elizabeth Grosz "The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new.... I believe...

Sam Harris For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by...

Ram Dass and Mirabai BushWe all sit on the edge of a mystery. We have only known this life, so dying scares us—and we are all dying. But what if...