Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

"[Oprah] Winfrey calls the book 'a wake-up call for the entire planet, one reader at a time.'" —USA Today With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived “in the now.” In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world.

A New Earth

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Idaho

Centering on a moral question--is it better to live a just or an unjust life?--"The Republic balances considerations of individual ethics with discussions of how to govern the ideal city. Inspired by the tumultuous government in Athens at the same time of its writing, Plato's work vigorously questions an abundance of political notions that are taken for granted today.

Republic

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Atul Gawande

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Medicine and What Matters in the End

A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable choices.

Being Mortal

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Nancy L. Gifford

Hardcover without dust jacket. Price in pencil on front end paper 

Indiana

An Introduction to Relativism and Knowledge

When in Rome

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Mitch Albom

Michigan

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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#hardcover #religion #ecology #philosophy #christian #sermons #preacher #schweitzer

Gathered together for the first time in one place, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Albert Schweitzer’s words on ecology, human and animal rights, philosophy, war and peace, music and the arts, and forming a global community.

This book is in good condition, with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket shoes some scuffing but no rips or creases. Sermons are translated to English from their original German. 

Minnesota

Sermons 1900-1919

Reverence For Life

Jenny Offill

New York

A Novel

From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience--but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.

Weather

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Nicholas Mancusi

Utah

"Riveting fun to read."--New York Times Book Review "An unforgettable debut. Mancusi is a writer to watch."--Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel A TIME Magazine Best Book of Summer A Vol. 1 Brooklyn Book of the Month A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer An Evening Standard Summer Reading Pick An InsideHook Best Book of the Month A young philosophy professor finds himself in the middle of a drug-running operation after his personal life derails in this taut, white-knuckle debut for fans of Breaking Bad Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii with Oscar's father, has died midflight, her body cooling for hours until the plane can land. Deeply grieving, Oscar feels his life slipping out of his control. A seemingly innocuous one-night stand with a woman named Dawn becomes volatile when, on the first day of classes, he realizes she is his student, and later learns that she is a fledgling campus drug lord. To make matters worse, his family is in debt, having lost their modest savings to a self-help guru who had indoctrinated Oscar's mother by preying on her depression. Desperate to help his family, Oscar breaks with his academic personality--he agrees to help Dawn with a drug run. A Philosophy of Ruin rumbles with brooding nihilism, then it cracks like a whip, hurtling Oscar and Dawn toward a terrifying threat on the road. Can Oscar halt the acceleration of chaos? Or was his fate never in his control? Taut, ferocious and blazingly intelligent, A Philosophy of Ruin is a heart-pounding thrill ride into the darkest corners of human geography, and a philosophical reckoning with the forces that determine our destiny.

A Philosophy of Ruin

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Paradoxical and puzzling, illuminating and intriguing, elusive and amusing—Eastern wisdom can be all of these and more. Here are more than four hundred quotations and sayings from both ancient and modern Eastern masters as well as words from some great like-minded Western thinkers and artists. Each one will inspire your imagination, peel away your preconceptions, and lead your mind toward clarity. You’ll pause and ponder, reflect and ruminate, until, quite suddenly, you may smile with new understanding as your mind and spirit (which are really one) enter the gate of understanding. ******************************* Monk: "I have just entered the monastery. Please give me some guidance."..... Master: "Have you eaten your rice gruel?"..... Monk: "Yes, I've eaten." ..... Master: "Then go wash your bowl." ..... Zen Mondo ******************************************** #philosophy #religion #culture

The Gateway to Eastern Wisdom

Moving Forward,  Keeping Still

Plato

Elizabeth Watson Scharffenberger

Benjamin Jowett

Florida

C. S. Lewis

This beautifully illustrated selection draws together some of his reflections on joy and shows the qualities of intelligence, honesty, and humility which made him such a respected teacher.

C. S. Lewis on Joy

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Arizona

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Missouri

Messages From The Future

Spiritwalker

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Michele B. Slung

New Jersey

As My Mother Used to Say

Remember what your mother used to say? She used to say a lot of things. So did all our mothers. Well, in case you forgot or weren't paying attention, here is the wit, wisdom, and worry of mothers of every race, religion, or ethnicity, otherwise known as Momilies. Smile, as you relive those years in an instant, with: "You're not the only pebble on the beach." "It'll never get well if you pick at it." "Don't run with a lollipop in your mouth." "Always put on clean underwear in case you're in an accident." . . . and many more! And for YET more, there is MORE MOMILIES.

Momilies

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Kentucky

Radical Awakening in Ordinary Life

How can we bring an effortless yes to this moment? How do we stop running from "the mess of life"--our predicaments, our frustrations, even our search for liberation--and start flowing with all of it?

In small venues throughout the UK and Europe, a young teacher named Jeff Foster is quietly awakening a new generation of spiritual inquirers to the experience of abiding presence and peace in our ever-shifting world. His informal gatherings, blogs, and kitchen-table video posts have created a rising tide of interest in his teachings.

With The Deepest Acceptance, Jeff Foster invites us to discover the ocean of who we are: an awareness that has already allowed every wave of emotion and experience to arrive.

While Jeff delightfully admits the irony of writing a book to convey something that is beyond words to teach, here he confirms his ability to guide us in unexpected new ways to a space of absolute acceptance and joy, no matter what's happening in our lives.

Candid, thoughtful, humorous--and deeply compassionate toward those searching for a way out of suffering--this refreshing new luminary inspires us to stop trying to "do" acceptance ... and start falling in love with "what has already been allowed."

The Deepest Acceptance

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Philosophy

An Introduction to Philosophy

Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks. By synthesizing three distinct approaches -- topical, historical, and worldview/conceptual systems -- it affords students a breadth and depth of perspective previously unavailable in standard introductory texts. Part One, Six Conceptual Systems, explores the philosophies of: naturalism, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas. Part Two, Important Problems in Philosophy, sheds light on: The Law of Noncontradiction, Possible Words, Epistemology I: Whatever Happened to Truth?, Epistemology II: A Tale of Two Systems, Epistemology III: Reformed Epistemology, God I: The Existence of God, God II: The Nature of God, Metaphysics: Some Questions About Indeterminism, Ethics I: The Downward Path, Ethics II: The Upward Path, Human Nature: The Mind-Body Problem and Survival After Death

Life's Ultimate Questions

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Dante. Alighieri

Peter Bondanella

Henry Longfellow

Tear on bottom of the cover but the book is still in excellent condition. 

The first part of Dante's classic poem of faith follows the author with his guide Virgil through the circles of hell, describing the sinners and punishments witnessed there.

The Inferno

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Eric Weiner

Maryland

One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.

Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy?

In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.



The Geography of Bliss

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Robert Fulghum

Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

The best-selling author presents an inspirational, upbeat look at subjects ranging from meatloaf to the Salvation Army band

Uh-Oh

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Nathaniel Branden

My Life with Ayn Rand

Memoirs of a twenty-year relationship between the author and Ayn Rand, who was his friend, mentor, lover, and enemy. No index. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Judgment Day

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Jack Repcheck

Wisconsin

James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity

This book follows the story of the gentleman farmer from Edinburgh whose observations about the age of the planet challenged theological beliefs, by citing his contributions to proving Darwin's theories.

The Man Who Found Time

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Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

The Unitarian minister reflects on America and its diverse peoples, everyday wisdoms, kindnesses, and joys, and everyday life's large meanings

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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David Brooks

Pennsylvania

The Quest for a Moral Life

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. “Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view . . . unsatisfying. They realize: This wasn’t my mountain after all. There’s another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain. And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment. In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose. In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But it’s also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extreme—and in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.

The Second Mountain

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M. J. Ryan

How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life

An inspiring guide to the rewards of giving thanks, this small volume features short, easy-to-digest essays that explain why gratitude chases away negative emotions.

Attitudes of Gratitude

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A New Earth

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Republic

Atul Gawande

Being Mortal

Nancy L. Gifford

When in Rome

Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence For Life

Jenny Offill

Weather

Nicholas Mancusi

A Philosophy of Ruin

Armand Eisen

Moving Forward, Keeping Still

Plato; Elizabeth Watson Scharffenberger; Benjamin Jowett

Republic

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis on Joy

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Hank Wesselman

Spiritwalker

Michele B. Slung

Momilies

Jeff Foster

The Deepest Acceptance

Ronald H. Nash

Life's Ultimate Questions

Dante. Alighieri; Peter Bondanella; Henry Longfellow

The Inferno

Eric Weiner

The Geography of Bliss

Robert Fulghum

Uh-Oh

Nathaniel Branden

Judgment Day

Jack Repcheck

The Man Who Found Time

Robert Fulghum

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

David Brooks

The Second Mountain

M. J. Ryan

Attitudes of Gratitude