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The Bhagavad-Gita: With an Introductory Essay, Sanskrit Text, English Translation and Notesby S. RadhakrishnanISBN 0048910295 (0-04-891029-5)
Hardcover, Unwin Paperbacks
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The Consolation of Philosophyby Boethius, Richard H. GreenISBN 002346450X (0-02-346450-X)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Senseby John Ralston SaulISBN 0029277221 (0-02-927722-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Front Porch Tales: Warm-Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Loveby Philip GulleyISBN 0060006277 (0-06-000627-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Front Porch Tales: Warm-Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love'Book summary:Discover the honesty, humor, depth, and wisdom of the front porch in this inspirational masterpiece of soulful small-town stories, which has garnered widespread acclaim for Quaker writer Philip Gulley. Reminiscent of the stories of Jan Karon and Garrison Keillor, this collection of real-life tales grew outof essays Gulley wrote for the newsletter of the Quaker church he pastored inIndiana. Graced with a gentle style and deft simplicity, these stories powerfully conjure the little truths of everyday life.
Philip Gulley is gifted with the rare ability to convey the extraordinary moments and insights of ordinary people. Join thousands of satisfied readers on the front porch of this consummate American storyteller.
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A Guidebook to Learning: For the Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdomby Mortimer J. AdlerISBN 0025003402 (0-02-500340-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The I Ching Plain and Simple: A Guide to Working With the Oracle of Changeby KarcherISBN 000716565X (0-00-716565-X)
Softcover, Thorsons Element
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Manual of the Warrior of Lightby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0007145713 (0-00-714571-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0020519109 (0-02-051910-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via] 
A Treasury of Traditional Wisdomby Whithall PerryISBN 0042080010 (0-04-208001-0)
Hardcover, Allen and Unwin
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A Western Approach to Zen: An Enquiryby Christmas HumphreysISBN 004181018X (0-04-181018-X)
Softcover, Allen and Unwin for the Buddhist Society
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