Jostein GaarderWhen 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who...

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme InequalityBhaskar SunkaraFrom one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why...

Irvin D YalonFrom bestselling author Irv Yalom comes a riveting blend of fact and fiction, a drama of love, fate, and will, played out agains the intellectual ferment of nineteenth-century...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C Cutler, MDNearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like...

Mitch Albom 'All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time...'On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to...

Jack BowenHow sure can you be that you're not dreaming right now? Up until now, completely sure, I responded. Dreams aren't really anything like reality. Dreams are, well, they're more...

Muriel Barbery  A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by...

Master Lam Kam Chuen with Lam Kai SinFor Feng Shui followers or anyone looking for a more enlightened eating experience, Feng Shui Kitchen outlines all the essentials of turning a...

Paul VirilioCity of Panic takes the reader on a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. For Virilio, whose sense of cities was...

M Al GathafiThe Green Book is broken into three sections:The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People.The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism.The Social Basis of...

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...

John McDowellModern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures,...