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The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities Into Soulful Practices
$16.99 Add to cartCasper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices-
- Author: Ter Kuile, Casper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0062881825
- Language: English
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
$20.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great an
- Author: Hecht, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0060097957
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$27.99 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0061965596
- Language: English
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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
$19.99 Add to cartThe finest introduction to “the greatest philosopher of the 20th century” (New York Times Book Review), including the complete text of the Tractatus, The Blue and Brown Books, and On Certainty
Major W
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0061550248
- Language: English
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On the Way to Language
$19.99 Add to cartIn this volume Martin Heidegger confronts the philosophical problems of language and begins to unfold the meaning begind his famous and little understood phrase Language is the House of Being. The Dia… [more below]
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0060638591
- Language: English
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In Search of the Miraculous: The Definitive Exploration of G. I. Gurdjieff’s Mystical Thought and Universal View
$19.99 Add to cartA new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson .
Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Ouspensky, P. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0156007460
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
$25.00 Add to cart“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062410660
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 3 Revised Edition: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times
$21.95 Add to cartNow more than ever, our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. This engaging guide to other lands weaves world history into a storybook format. Designed as a read-aloud… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World #11
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1945841443
- Language: English
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
$19.99 Add to cartInspiration for the Netflix Documentary Series
“Of all the important studies of the American right, The Family is undoubtedly the most eloquent. It is also quite possibly the most terrifying.” — Thoma
- Author: Sharlet, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0060560053
- Language: English
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece: An Edgar Award Winner
$17.99 Add to cartIn the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world’s most famous paintings, Edvard Munch’s Scream. It was a braz
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060531185
- Language: English
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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
$32.50 Read moreFor the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it ha- Author: Johns, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022682148X
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
$19.00 Read moreA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE NEW YORKER – A vibrant portrait of four college friends–Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley–who formed a… [more below]
- Author: Mac Cumhaill, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1984898981
- Language: English
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
$32.00 Add to cartA history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
From legacy manufacturers to emerging tech giants, corporations wield significant power over our lives,- Author: Magnuson, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601564
- Language: English
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
$16.95 Add to cartAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it–and explains why they have died today
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and ov- Author: Smith-Ruiu, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 069123521X
- Language: English
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Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
$19.99 Add to cartHow do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?
Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of t
- Author: Sunshine, Glenn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 3, 2009
- ISBN10: 0310292301
- Language: English
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One Wish: Fatima Al-Fihri and the World’s Oldest University
$18.99 Add to cartA Horn Book selection for “Picture Book Biographies for Women’s History Month 2022”
Fatima had one wish . . .
Fatima al-Fihri loved to learn. She wanted to know everything, like how birds flew, why the
- Author: Yuksel, M. O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 1, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063032910
- Language: English
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Reconstruction Updated Edition: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
$25.99 Add to cartFrom the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.
Eric Foner’s “masterful treatment
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 2, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062354515
- Language: English
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A Discourse on the Method
$8.94 Add to cartDescartes’ Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous “cogito e… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540071
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by
$19.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of rules in the Western world
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended ha- Series: Lawrence Stone Lectures #13
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254087
- Language: English
