Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

The description for this book, Philosophies of India, will be forthcoming.

Philosophies of India

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#paperback #fiction #classic #philosophy #politics #literature #academic #utopia #thomasmore

Minnesota

Utopia

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#fiction #philosophy #hardcover #sirthomasmore #utopia There is some wear on the top of the book (pictured). Otherwise, near perfect.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

#nonfiction #philosophy #hardcover #quotesfromfamousmen #quotes #lifeadvice

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Wit & Wisdom for Men

Mr. Quotes

#hardcover #nonfiction #business #economics #leadership #philosophy 

Nebraska

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Ex-library copy #hardcover #philosophy #history #vintage #judaism #nonfiction #zionism

New Jersey

The History of an Idea

Martin Buber's writings on Zion and Zionism go back to the early years of this century. To him, Zion was not primarily a political issue: Zionism implies a reorientation of the entire being, and overcoming of a diaspora mentality, a catharsis, and a readiness to build in the land of Israel a new, just, free, and creative community.

On Zion

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#paperback #fiction #bestseller #spiritual #religion #mitchalbom #philosophy #heaven 

Florida

A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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#paperback #fiction #classics #philosophy 

Presents "Walden," in which Thoreau describes his two-year residence at Walden Pond in a small house of his own construction, and "Civil Disobedience," a protest against governmental interference with individual rights and liberty.

Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Rhode Island

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY & OTHER ESSAYS 

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Louisiana

A series of lectures on the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism includes discussions of meditation, karma, compassion, gods, enlightenment, and death.

Kindness, Clarity and Insight

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#socialscience #biology #lindisfarnefellowsconference #ecology #evolution #philosophy #sociology #culturalchange

New Hampshire

A Way of Knowing

Gaia

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Montana

While Death sits in her apartment contemplating the world around her and wondering what would happen if she became human and fell in love, no one dies, raising concerns among politicians, religious leaders, doctors, morticians, and others as they confront the harsh realities of eternal life.

Death with Interruptions

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Kentucky

Do we possess an individual self or soul that is separate from our physical biology or are we simply an enormously complex biological network that mechanically produces our hopes, aspirations, dreams, desires, humor, and passions?Disillusionment provides provocative insights into this ages-old question and challenges the reader to re-examine their most closely held beliefs.

Disillusionment

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#paperback #enlightenment #newage #philosophy #spirituality

The True Knowledge of Enlightenment

"NEWLY REVISED EDITION" Haunted Universe is a journey into dark realms, an uncompromising presentation of the real cost of Awakening. Where other books have promised that the path to Enlightenment is one of joy, bliss and self discovery, this book makes no such claims. Haunted Universe does not attempt to gloss over, but actually emphasizes what those who embark on the path of Enlightenment must face about themselves and their lives before they dare make an incautious leap into a state that demands a confrontation with humanity's greatest fear-the loss of self.

Haunted Universe

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#paperback #philosophy #spiritual #mysticism #selfhelp

Memos for Mystics is a collection of spiritual notes which are filled and overflowing with joy and insights. It is nonsectarian, and was written to encourage and support everyone who has ever encountered stuck places in their own private spiritual journey. The author is a very creative writer and excellent artist and she has a way of "painting" each story in a most unusual way...a way that will often surprise you and always leave you in a more joyous space than where you began. Each page is an adventure, and these stories offer insights and observations that will echo in your mind long after you have read them.

Memos for Mystics

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Is there a distinction between the experience of consciousness and the consciousness of experience? Is there a line that separates the two or are they the very Oneness that is sought after by so many?In Seeking the End of Seeking, Roy Melvyn examines this and other issues such as:1. When did I become "me"?2. How do you locate that which can't be described?3. How do you know when you are dreaming?4. By what light is darkness discerned?Taken from personal journal entries and talks with other curious seekers, the author traverses this landscape with boldness and insight. Students of zen, advaita and dzogchen will want to add this important work to their library.

Seeking the End of Seeking

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#paperback #newage #spirituality #philosophy

Awaken to the Truth of Who You Are and Imagine Your Own Life Review

This book starts out with a story about a guy named Steve Parker who crashes his Harley motorcycle and dies in the first paragraph. In a witty conversational style, Colin then chronicles the adventures Steve has with Joe, another discarnate soul he befriends soon after he dies, before they go together to the light. When they do finally go, they find themselves speeding up the tunnel of light on a Harley, only to be met by Harley, his Angel of Incarnation who then takes Steve through his life review. This, of course, reveals how all the principles of Radical Forgiveness had been working in Steve's life right until and including his death. He also gets to meet all the souls who had assisted him on his soul's journey. As a story it is both touching and funny. But it is also a teaching about Radical Forgiveness, albeit from a very different and unusual angle. Part Two constitutes an opportunity for you to imagine yourself, were you to die in this moment, going through your own life review from that same Radical Forgiveness perspective. This will give you a great deal of insight into your own life and how it has unfolded perfectly according to your own Divine Plan up to now. Part Three provides the opportunity to plan your future having awakened to the truth of who you are. It helps you plan what's next.' This is why we have called it a Radical Karma Workbook.' It will help you put the principles of Radical Forgiveness and Radical Manifestation into practice in your every day life.

Getting to Heaven on a Harley

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#hardcover #signedbyauthor #nonfiction #health #fitness #humor #philosophy #selfhelp

Maine

Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You

A personal style guide for women by a style arbiter offers counsel on how to break free from retail-dictated choices and how to use fashion to convey individual style, mood, and personality.

Eccentric Glamour

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#paperback #fiction #bestseller #spiritual #mitchalbom #philosophy #heaven #decalededges

California

No markings inside  #paperback #history #philosophy #experience

Arkansas

Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme

Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as "experience." Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and why so many thinkers in so many different traditions have been compelled to understand it. Songs of Experience is a remarkable history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience written by one of our best-known intellectual historians. With its sweeping historical reach and lucid comparative analysis--qualities that have made Martin Jay's previous books so distinctive and so successful--Songs of Experience explores Western discourse from the sixteenth century to the present, asking why the concept of experience has been such a magnet for controversy. Resisting any single overarching narrative, Jay discovers themes and patterns that transcend individuals and particular schools of thought and illuminate the entire spectrum of intellectual history.



As he explores the manifold contexts for understanding experience--epistemological, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical--Jay engages an exceptionally broad range of European and American traditions and thinkers from the American pragmatists and British Marxist humanists to the Frankfurt School and the French poststructuralists, and he delves into the thought of individual philosophers as well, including Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume and Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit. Provocative, engaging, erudite, this key work will be an essential source for anyone who joins the ongoing debate about the material, linguistic, cultural, and theoretical meaning of "experience" in modern cultures.

♻️ Songs of Experience

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#hardcover #autobiography #nonfiction #spirituality #philosophy #religion #newage

Missouri

Messages From The Future

Spiritwalker

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#paperback #nonfiction #humor 
 #leisure #funny #wit #philosophy #cogito #NYTbestseller #likethosedrawingsintheNewYorkerbutinwords

New York

Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school. Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read—and finally, it all makes sense! And now, you can read Daniel Klein's further musings on life and philosophy in Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it.

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ...

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#hardcover #winniethepooh #millennium #philosophy 

Winnie the Pooh philosophy

It is a universal truth that Winnie-the-Pooh is among the most important beings of the twentieth century. His influence on Western philosophy and on Eastern thought has been well documented. In this witty, scholarly book, John Tyerman Williams sees the dawning of the new millennium as a moment for a major revelation: At the heart of the Ancient Mysteries sits Winnie-the-Pooh.In astrology, alchemy, the interpretation of the tarot-even Arthurian legend-the scope of Pooh's influence far exceeds what even his most ardent admirers have heretofore believed. The arguments are amusing and irrefutable.This entertaining volume makes it clear that the World of Pooh is spiritually and mentally infinite, equal in stature to the great mythical worlds. It is a Very Comforting Thought to have as we meander through the Hundred Acre Wood, right into the twenty-first century.

Pooh and the Millennium

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#hardcover #nonfiction #philosophy #religion #culture #Christianity #Judaism 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Living Conversation / PBS series

Offers a discussion of the Book of Genesis by more than fifty eminent thinkers and artists

Heinrich Robert Zimmer; Joseph Campbell (Editor)

Philosophies of India

Thomas More; Ralph Robinson (Translator); William Roper; Wayne A. Rebhorn (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Utopia

Sir Thomas More

Utopia

Jack Kreismer

Mr. Quotes

Jim Collins

Good to Great

Martin Buber

On Zion

Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Henry David Thoreau; W. S. Merwin (Introduction by); William Howarth (Afterword by)

Walden and Civil Disobedience

RALPH HARPER

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY & OTHER ESSAYS

Dalai Lama; Jeffrey Hopkins (Translator, Editor); Elizabeth Napper (Editor)

Kindness, Clarity and Insight

William Irwin Thompson, ed.

Gaia

José Saramago; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

Death with Interruptions

Roy Melvyn

Disillusionment

Steven Norquist; Jesús Olmo (Designed by)

Haunted Universe

Elsa Joy Bailey

Memos for Mystics

Roy Melvyn

Seeking the End of Seeking

Colin C. Tipping; JoAnn Tipping (Illustrator); Shari Claire (Editor)

Getting to Heaven on a Harley

Simon Doonan; Roxanne Lowit (Photographer)

Eccentric Glamour

Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Martin Jay

♻️ Songs of Experience

Hank Wesselman

Spiritwalker

Thomas Cathcart; Daniel Klein

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ...

John Tyerman Williams; Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator); A. A. Milne (Contribution by)

Pooh and the Millennium

Bill Moyers; Joanne Dobson

Genesis