Michael Foley It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity...

Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary...

Author: Richard Carlson "Don't Sweat te Small Stuff for Teens" will help you change your tune, one note at a time. You'll find out how to let go of the...

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...

Charles Eisenstein In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as...

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...

Author: Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking Over Your Life In Don't Sweat The Small...

Alain De Botton In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been called a "cosmic optimist" and the first of American Romantics. Enormously influential and controversial in...

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

Paul Rabinow This selection of transcribed interviews and extracts from major works, including Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality and Madness and Civilization, introduces the key Foucauldian relationship between...

John Searle John Searle's summation of earlier writings is not just an essential tie-up volume for existing readers; it is also a perfect introduction to the work of one of...