Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield"SCIENCE JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST. . . An impeccably researched, amazingly up-to-date, crisply written and well-illustrated survey."--NatureAt the cutting edge of the sciences, a dynamic new...

Gingetsu Itoh"Ninjutsu for the Modern Person." Gingetsu Itoh's final book on Ninjutsu. Revisiting the historical origins of Ninjutsu with his trademark historical narratives, this time Itoh "Sensei" lays out his...

Author: Allan Bloom A volume of wide-ranging essays deals with contemporary politics, modern thinkers, and today's universities, and examines works by Plato, Shakespeare, Swift, and Rousseau January 1, 1991 by...

Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume ,...

Jean-Luc Marion  Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world’s foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges...

Douglas R HofstadterDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity...

Piet HeinWhat in the world is a Grook?A grook is a short, aphoristic poem, accompanied by an appropriate drawing, revealing in a minimum of words and with a minimum of...

Author: Gretchen RubinHappier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday LifeIn the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness...

Haim Shapira, PhDWhat is your happiest moment?How can you know it?Do we waste time or does time waste us?Are questions about meaning truly meaningful?What's really important?Drawing on literary and philosophical...

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and CultureFrancis A SchaefferAs one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered...

Douglas Hofstadter What do we mean when we say “I”? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an “I” arise out of mere matter?...

Sheldon B KoppIf You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy PatientsTherapists do not and cannot give answers. Explore the true nature of the therapeutic...