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After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Pathby Jack KornfieldISBN 0553378295 (0-553-37829-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path'Book summary:Jack Kornfield, one of America's most beloved teachers of meditation, assures us that enlightenment does occur on the spiritual path but warns that it is not the end of the road. Bringing his thoughts to a personal level, Kornfield looks up many of the notable spiritual teachers of our times (Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Sufi, etc.) and presents extended quotations of their trials and epiphanies. These anecdotes are woven together with fables and ruminations from Kornfield's own decades-long experience as a practitioner and teacher, creating an image of the spiritual life as challenging, multidimensional, rewarding, and, yes, mundane. In the old days in China, Zen monks were encouraged to travel for instruction under a variety of masters. Here, Kornfield introduces us to today's masters, but off their podiums, as equals. Genuine experiences of awakening, despair, fault, serious transgression, and simple childlike joy all appear as bridges on the way to the divine. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry is not just another inspirational bestseller, it is a lasting record of concrete insights forged from the fires of dedicated practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Alan Mendelsohnby Daniel Manus PinkwaterISBN 0525253602 (0-525-25360-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Marsby Daniel M. PinkwaterISBN 0553240706 (0-553-24070-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Alchemy the Secret Artby De Rola SkISBN 0517517116 (0-517-51711-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alchemy the Secret Art'Book summary:Alchemy: The Secret Art covers true alchemy vs false alchemy. The book includes 193 illustrations - 33 in full color - including many German ones from 1622 and some French ones from the18th century.
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The Arabian Nightsby Rene BullISBN 0517619342 (0-517-61934-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Blakeby W.H. StevensonISBN 0582021685 (0-582-02168-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Book of Secrets : Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Lifeby Deepak ChopraISBN 0517706245 (0-517-70624-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Secrets : Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life'Book summary:Every life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity of these answers, and what we most long to know remains lodged deep inside.
We all want to know how to find a soul mate, what career would be most fulfilling, how to live a life with meaning, and how to teach our children well. We are looking for a personal breakthrough, a turning point, a revelation that brings with it new meaning. The Book of Secrets--a crystalline distillation of insights and wisdom accumulated over the lifetime of one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time--provides an exquisite new tool for achieving just that.
Because answers to the questions at the center of life are counterintuitive, they are often hidden from view, sequestered from our everyday gaze. In his ongoing quest to elevate our experience, bestselling author Deepak Chopra has isolated fifteen secrets that drive the narrative of this inspiring book--and of our lives. From "The World Is in You" and "What You Seek, You Already Are" to "Evil Is Not Your Enemy" and "You Are Truly Free When You Are Not a Person," The Book of Secrets is rich with insights, a priceless treasure that can transport us beyond change to transformation, and from there to a sacred place where we can savor the nectar of enlightenment.
"The Book of Secrets is the finest and most profound of Deepak Chopras books to date. Want the answers to the secrets of life? Let me recommend that you start right here." -- Ken Wilber, author of A Brief History of Everything [via]More editions of The Book of Secrets : Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life:
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0582530334 (0-582-53033-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553212168 (0-553-21216-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. [via]
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emersonby Joel Porte, Saundra MorrisISBN 052149611X (0-521-49611-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The City of God Against the Pagansby R.W. Dyson, AugustineISBN 0521468434 (0-521-46843-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of God Against the Pagans'Book summary:This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity. [via]
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Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the Westby Morris BermanISBN 0553348639 (0-553-34863-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Complete Guide to the Tarotby Eden GrayISBN 0553277529 (0-553-27752-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Complete Guide to the Tarot'Book summary:For centuries, the strange and beautiful tarot cards have been an endless source of mystery and fascination. One of the foremost authorities in the field reveals the intricacies of this ancient art. With detailed explanations, Eden Gray offers explicit advice about the three different methods of reading the cards, and using the tarot for divination and meditation. Both beginning students and advanced devotee will find in this book new insights into the ancient lore of the tarot. [via]
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The Complete Illustrated Book of Yogaby VishnudevanandaISBN 0517884313 (0-517-88431-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliotby T. S. EliotISBN 0571088570 (0-571-08857-0)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticismby Denys TurnerISBN 0521453178 (0-521-45317-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0553064169 (0-553-06416-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Dermis Probeby Shah, Idries, SayedISBN 052547305X (0-525-47305-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0520045165 (0-520-04516-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Divine Invasionsby Lawrence SutinISBN 0517572044 (0-517-57204-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Earthby David BrinISBN 055329024X (0-553-29024-X)
Softcover, Spectra
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth'Book summary:The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings. [via]
The Enneadsby Plotinus, Stephen Mackenna, B. S. PageISBN 0571046886 (0-571-04688-6)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Essence of Sufismby John BaldockISBN 0572030525 (0-572-03052-5)
Hardcover, Arcturus Pub
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climatesby Tom RobbinsISBN 055337933X (0-553-37933-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates'Book summary:The fierce invalid in Tom Robbins's seventh novel is a philosophical, hedonistic U.S. operative very loosely inspired by a friend of the author. "Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are enormously popular in the CIA," claims Switters. "Not with all the agents in the field, but with the good ones, the brightest and the best." Switters isn't really an invalid, but during his first mission (to set free his ornery grandma's parrot, Sailor, in the Amazon jungle), he gets zapped by a spell cast by a "misshapen shaman" of the Kandakandero tribe named End of Time. The shaman is reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda's giggly guru, but his head is pyramid-shaped. In return for a mind-bending trip into cosmic truth--"the Hallways of Always"--Switters must not let his foot touch the earth, or he'll die.
Not that a little death threat can slow him down. Switters simply hops into a wheelchair and rolls off to further footloose adventures, occasionally switching to stilts. For a Robbins hero, to be just a bit high, not earthbound, facilitates enlightenment. He bops from Peru to Seattle, where he's beguiled by the Art Girls of the Pike Place Market and his 16-year-old stepsister, and then off to Syria, where he falls in with a pack of renegade nuns bearing names like Mustang Sally and Domino Thirry. Will Switters see Domino tumble and solve the mystery of the Virgin Mary? Can the nuns convince the Pope to favor birth control--to "zonk the zygotic zillions and mitigate the multitudinous milt" and "wrest free from a woman's shoulders the boa of spermatozoa?" Can the author ever resist a shameless pun or a mutant metaphor?
The tangly plot is almost beside the point. Switters is a colorful undercover agent, and a Robbins novel is really a colorful undercover essay celebrating sex and innocence, drugs and a firm wariness of anything that tries to rewire the mind, and Broadway tunes, especially "Send in the Clowns." Some readers will be intensely offended by Switters's yen for youth and idiosyncratic views on vice. But fans will feel that extremism in the pursuit of serious fun is virtue incarnate. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is classic Tom Robbins: all smiles, similes, and subversion. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Four Quartetsby T. S. EliotISBN 0571203434 (0-571-20343-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Quartets'Book summary:Published in the fiery days of World War II, Four Quartets stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words speak for themselves: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent terror/Of which the tongues declare/The only discharge from sin and error/The only hope, or the despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--/To be redeemed from fire by fire./Who then devised this torment?/Love/Love is the unfamiliar Name/Behind the hands that wave/The intolerable shirt of flame/Which human power cannot remove./We only live, only suspire/Consumed by either fire or fire." [via]
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Giordano Bruno Cause, Principle and Unity: Essays on Magicby Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Robert De LuccaISBN 052159359X (0-521-59359-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity : And Essays on Magicby Richard J. Blackwell, Robert de Lucca, Alfonso IngegnoISBN 0521596580 (0-521-59658-0)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Golf and the Spirit : Lessons for the Journeyby M. Scott Peck, Christopher PeckISBN 0517708833 (0-517-70883-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Good Omensby Terry PratchettISBN 0552137030 (0-552-13703-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, With Notes and Introductionby Brian P. CopenhaverISBN 0521425433 (0-521-42543-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The I Ching (The Book of Changes)by James LeggeISBN 0553260022 (0-553-26002-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Jitterbug Perfumeby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553348981 (0-553-34898-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jitterbug Perfume'Book summary:A story beginning in the forests of ancient Bohemia and ending at nine o'clock tonight, Paris time. The hero is a janitor with a missing bottle which is embossed with the image of a goat-horned god and is said to contain the remaining drops of the secret essence of the universe. [via]
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The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen : A Novelby Barbara LachmanISBN 0517883902 (0-517-88390-2)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen : A Novel'Book summary:Hildegard of Bingen is everyone's secret passion these days. Here is a tumultuous year in the life of the great twelfth-century Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer, healer, writer, and advocate of women's full participation in the life of the spirit. Considered a saint in Germany, Hildegard left us three books of her visions in which she often saw the creation as a living, pulsing being, 77 liturgical songs, the first morality play, a book on the healing arts, a catalog of the flora of her native Rhineland, and a wealth of correspondence with monarchs, several popes, and clergy at all levels of society. In conveying the full breadth of Hildegard's inner and outer experience, Barbara Lachman has created a document that rings with truth about this singular woman and her world. Rarely does a literary work succeed as well in letting readers see the world through such illuminated eyes. [via]
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The Koranby John Medows RodwellISBN 0553587528 (0-553-58752-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Koran'Book summary:The Qur'an, a masterpiece of immense religious and literary value, is presented in a convenient, affordable edition for a new generation of readers. The earliest known work in Arabic prose, the Qur'an is divided into 114 "suras", or chapters, containing the religious, social, civil, commercial, military, and legal codes of Islam. [via]
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Lambby Christopher MooreISBN 0606296433 (0-606-29643-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Lara and the Moon-Colored Fillyby Kathleen DueyISBN 0525473335 (0-525-47333-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenmentby Thaddeus GolasISBN 0553263587 (0-553-26358-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Life Is Real Only Then, When I Amby G. I. GurdjieffISBN 0525145478 (0-525-14547-8)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0606284001 (0-606-28400-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Light Princess, and Other Tales Being the Complete Fairy Stories of George Macdonaldby George MacDonaldISBN 0575010614 (0-575-01061-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Lost Christianityby Jacob NeedlemanISBN 055320713X (0-553-20713-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Magic of a Mystic Stories Padrby CrownISBN 051754847X (0-517-54847-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklynby Karen McCarthy BrownISBN 0520224752 (0-520-22475-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn'Book summary:Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Mama Lola's daughter Maggie, a recent initiate and the designated heir to her Brooklyn-based healing practice. Out of these stories, in which dream and vision flavor everyday experience and the Vodou spirits guide decision making, Vodou emerges as a religion focused on healing brought about by mending broken relationships between the living, the dead, and the Vodou spirits.[via]
Mama Lola is also an important experiment in feminist ethnographic writing designed to address current questions in the field. Brown begins with the assumption that ethnography is not so much a science as a social art form rooted in human relationships, and as such it is open to moral and aesthetic questions as well as to those more routinely addressed to it. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of straightforward ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Mama Lola's story thus rises from a chorus of equally authoritative voices.
Deeply exploring the role of women in religious practices and the related themes of family and of religion and social change, Brown provides a rich context in which to understand the authority that urban Haitian women exercise in the home and in the Vodou temple. A broad range of general readers and scholars will find insights and new understandings in this startlingly original work.More editions of Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn:
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The Mind's Iby Hofstadter, Douglas R. & Dennett, Daniel C., Daniel C. DennettISBN 0553345842 (0-553-34584-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind's I'Book summary:Ever wondered who you are? Who you really are? This collection of writings and reflections by some of today's most notable thinkers is designed to enliven this most central, and most baffling, question in the philosophy of mind. In some ways, the questions posed and bantered about in this book are at the heart of all philosophical reasoning. They are the ultimate questions about the self. The Mind's I contains an astonishing variety of approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Between the covers of this book one encounters the literary erudition of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges alongside the analytic rigor of John Searle. There are sophisticated metaphorical pieces (such as "The Princess Ineffabelle" by Polish philosopher and writer Stanislaw Lem), intriguing dialogues (like Raymond Smullyan's "Is God a Taoist?"), and serious but engaging philosophical essays from a host of thinkers (see Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?").
Editors Hofstadter and Dennett--leading lights in the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind--follow each selection with a short reflection designed to elaborate on their main themes. The Mind's I admirably broadens their fields to a more general audience. The book's essays are grouped into six categories, each successively raising the philosophical stakes by introducing new levels of complexity. Ultimately, one confronts some of the thorniest questions in modern philosophy here, such as the nature of free will, our place in the metaphysical world, and the possibility of genuine artificial intelligence. The book closes with a playful and perplexing piece by Robert Nozick, an adequate summation to The Mind's I. He writes, "Perhaps God has not decided yet whether he has created, in this world, a fictional world or a real one.... Which decision do you hope for?" --Eric de Place [via]
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Mysterious Britainby Janet Bord, Colin BordISBN 0586081577 (0-586-08157-7)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Myth of the Magusby E. M. ButlerISBN 0521437776 (0-521-43777-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Myths to Live byby Joseph CampbellISBN 0586085289 (0-586-08528-9)
Softcover, Paladin
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0606203419 (0-606-20341-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. [via]
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Pavaneby Keith RobertsISBN 0575061030 (0-575-06103-0)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pavane'Book summary:An ever-expanding subgenre of science fiction is devoted to "alternate worlds" or "alternate histories": fiction in which a crucial event goes differently than in the world we know, and history is changed. Keith Roberts's Pavane (1968) is set in a backward 20th century molded by the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I and the triumph of a militantly antiscience Catholic Church. This is a classic alternate history, in the same company as such highly regarded novels as L. Sprague De Camp's seminal Lest Darkness Fall (1941), in which a modern man slips back in time and attempts to avert the Dark Ages; Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee (1953), set after the South wins the U.S. Civil War; and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle (1962), set after the Germans and Japanese win World War II. Lest Darkness Fall and The Man in the High Castle are justly famous; the other two classics, Bring the Jubilee and Pavane, are less well known, and that is a shame.
One reason for Pavane's relative obscurity among American SF readers might be its British setting and author (the Moore and Dick novels are both set in the U.S., and De Camp, Moore, and Dick were all American). Another reason might be that Pavane is a novel created from interrelated but standalone stories (six "measures," or novelettes, and a coda), and the stories are of varying quality. Most are wise, beautifully written, and intensely visualized, especially the opener, "The Lady Margaret," and the closer, "Corfe Gate"; but "Brother John," the story of the monk-artist who witnesses Inquisition tortures and sparks an anti-Church rebellion, is far less detailed, and sometimes even unclear. Another reason for the novel's obscurity may be that some of the stories/chapters have more of a fantasy feel than is typical of more recent alternate history. Also, the nature of the coda's revelations may put off some readers. Nonetheless, Pavane is an intelligent, powerful, and moving work, deserving of a wide readership. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Philokalia: The Complete Textby Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware, G.E.H. PalmerISBN 057119382X (0-571-19382-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philokalia: The Complete Text'Book summary:The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how man may develop his inner powers and awake from illusion; how he may overcome fragmentation and achieve spiritual wholeness; how he may attain the life of contemplative stillness and union with God.[via]
Compiled by Bishop Kallistos Ware
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Philosophy as Metanoeticsby Hajime TanabeISBN 0520054903 (0-520-05490-3)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creekby Annie DillardISBN 0553233890 (0-553-23389-0)
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The Poems of William Blake: Comprising Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Together With Poetical Sketchesby William Blake, David V. Erdman, W.H. StevensonISBN 0582484456 (0-582-48445-6)
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Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Questby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553375490 (0-553-37549-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest'Book summary:Providence is Quinn's fascinating memoir of his life-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream in Omaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant in the Trappist order under the guidance of eminent theologian Thomas Merton. Later, his quest took him through the deep self-discovery of psychoanalysis, through a failed marriage during the turbulent and exciting 60s, to finding fulfillment with his wife Rennie and a career as a writer. In Providence Quinn also details his rejection of organized religion and his personal rediscovery of what he says is humankind's first and only universal religion, the theology that forms the basis for Ishmael . Providence is an insightful book that address issues of education, psychology, religion, science, marriage, and self-understanding, and will give insight to anyone who has ever struggled to forge and enact a personal spirituality. [via]
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The Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 055321344X (0-553-21344-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition. [via]
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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Agesby Norman CohnISBN 0586080023 (0-586-08002-3)
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Reenchantment of the Worldby Morris BermanISBN 0553241710 (0-553-24171-0)
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Religion and Nothingnessby Keiji NishitaniISBN 0520049462 (0-520-04946-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion and Nothingness'Book summary:In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the task for contemporary philosophy. Nihility, or relative nothingness, can only be overcome by being radicalized to Emptiness, or absolute nothingness. Taking absolute nothingness as the fundamental notion in rational explanations of the Eastern experience of human life, Professor Nishitani examines the relevance of this notion for contemporary life, and in particular for Western philosophical theories and religious believes. Everywhere his basic intention remains the same: to direct our modern predicament to a resolution through this insight.[via]
The challenge that the thought of Keiji Nishitani presents to the West, as a modern version of an Eastern speculative tradition that is every bit as old and as variegated as our own, is one that brings into unity the principle of reality and the principle of salvation. In the process, one traditional Western idea after another comes under scrutiny: the dichotomy of faith and reason, of being and substance, the personal and transcendent notions of God, the exaggerated role given to the knowing ego, and even the Judeo-Christian view of history itself.
Religion and Nothingness represents the major work of one of Japan's most powerful and committed philosophical minds. 
The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0606208879 (0-606-20887-9)
Hardcover, Tandem Library Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robber Bride'Book summary:Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia... In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion. [via]
Secret Countryby Colin Bord, Bord, Janet and Bord, ColinISBN 0586082670 (0-586-08267-0)
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Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminineby Barbara NewmanISBN 0520211626 (0-520-21162-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Snow Crashby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380958 (0-553-38095-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Crash'Book summary:From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. [via]
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The Snow Leopardby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0553206516 (0-553-20651-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Leopard'Book summary:In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical; Schaller was one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in the wild since 1950.
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."
That sentiment, as well as the sense of wonder at the world's beauty that pervades Matthiessen's book, ought to inform any journey into the wild. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Spirit Walker : My Journeys Through the Visionary Gatewayby Henry B. WesselmanISBN 0553099760 (0-553-09976-0)
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Spiritwalker: Messages from the Futureby Henry Barnard WesselmanISBN 0553378376 (0-553-37837-6)
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 055320517X (0-553-20517-X)
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The Taoist Bodyby Kristofer Schipper, Karen C. DuvalISBN 0520082249 (0-520-08224-9)
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Tarotby Richard CavendishISBN 0517612070 (0-517-61207-0)
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Views from the Oldest Houseby Richard GrantISBN 0553288334 (0-553-28833-4)
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Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christby William A. ChristianISBN 0520200403 (0-520-20040-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Voice of the Fireby Alan MooreISBN 0575400552 (0-575-40055-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voice of the Fire'Book summary:The dark aspect of human history is seen from the vantage point of a single place. Linked geographically within a radius of only ten miles, yet separated in time by a span of some 5000 years, each chapter in this novel brings a different voice from the ashes of the past. [via]
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0517606070 (0-517-60607-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0534522068 (0-534-52206-8)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:A discourse on appreciating nature and discovering personal identity, Henry David Thoreau wrote WALDEN, after retreating to a small cabin the woods near Walden Pond. Promoting individual thought, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE reveals what is still considered essential American political thought. [via]
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Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzuby Victor H. MairISBN 0553374060 (0-553-37406-0)
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