Inayat Khan

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Development of Spiritual Healing

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Ronald B. Shwartz

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

English

115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most

Writers from Dave Barry to Kurt Vonnegut to James McBride, and from Anna Quindlen to Susanna Kaysen, share thoughts about their favorite books.

For the Love of Books

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John H. Randall

Justus Buchler

An Introduction

Philosophy

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A Color Guide to Yoga

Andrew Carroll

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Casey at the Bat," "Fog," "The New Colossus," "Chicago," "I, Too, Sing America," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Road Not Taken," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter."

101 Great American Poems

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Maria Eftimiades

The first book on the fatal attraction case of Amy Fisher--the high school student accused of shooting the wife of her alleged lover--that became the most sensational story of the year. Eftimiades is a feature reporter for People and has access to the major players in this sizzling story. Film pending.

Lethal Lolita

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Niccolò. Machiavelli

Harvey C. Mansfield

Second Edition

Mansfield's translation of this classic work, in combination with the new material added for this edition, makes it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and lovers of the dark art of politics.

The Prince

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Kathleen Parkinson

Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent in the American dream.

Critical Studies: the Great Gatsby

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Joseph Conrad

Robert Hampton

With the Congo Diary

A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo, in an effort to rob the natives of their irovy.

Heart of Darkness

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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have
forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do
exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This revised edition of Dawkins' fascinating book contains two new chapters. One, entitled "Nice Guys Finish First," demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. The other new chapter, entitled "The Long Reach of the Gene," which reflects the arguments presented
in Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype, clarifies the startling view that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they dwell and manipulate other individuals and even the world at large. Containing a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world, the second edition once again drives
home the fact that truth is stranger than fiction.

The Selfish Gene

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

World Languages

How to Read and Write Chinese Characters

Mitch Albom

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Peter. Kreeft

A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth & The Good Life

Peter Kreeft's Socrates probes the contemporary values of success, power and pleasure.

The Best Things in Life

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José. Ortega y Gasset

A work powerful and pervading in its implications not only for metaphysics but also for art, political science, and the philosophy of history.

What Is Philosophy?

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Gerry Spence

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day

A prominent attorney offers a tested program for successful arguing, giving advice for all situations from home to work and presenting techniques to help one convince others, effect change, and win debates.

How to Argue and Win Every Time

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A Personal Passage

Eight Rungs on the Spiritual Ladder

James T. Braha

The Planetary Aspects Explained

This guide gives advice on becoming an astrologer, showing how astrology works. Starting with a poem by Babaji, it includes a chapter on planetary aspect theory, addressing issues such as research-oriented astrology and the house system controversy, and explaining the importance of the planets.

How to Be a Great Astrologer

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Andy Rooney

Essays taken from the author's syndicated newspaper columns.

Pieces of My Mind

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Reclaimimg Childhood in a Hostile World

Their Name Is Today

Thoughts for a New Japan

The Time to Act Is Now

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