2,669円 Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher - one of the twentieth century’s most influential intellectuals - continues to intrigue today. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in the form of new novels, operas, films and artworks, as well as a never-abating production of ac...

6,096円 Explore the work of a founding father of the mechanical philosophy of nature, Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637). The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of tradition...

993円 Shawn Bowe has to recount the harrowing events of SEAL Team Six's last mission. Everything goes terribly wrong during a routine mission where Team Six is just supposed to swoop in and collect some laptops for data and then clear back out in minutes. There are more hostiles than the intelligence w...

2,647円 Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century’s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who bec...

800円 Duality-the state or quality of being two or in two parts; dichotomy. This book is for those like me who have had some tough times. It is filled with daily thoughts and introspection that got me through the situations in my life. Much of this introspection pertained to everyday life for all of us...

330円 Sri Ramana Maharshi, born Venkataraman Iyer, was a Hindu spiritual master. He was born to a Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Tiruchuzhi, Tamil Nadu. The book describes his journey. He was one of the greatest teachers of Philosophy in the 19th century.

3,846円 On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of livin...

330円 He vowed to dethrone the haughty king who was harassing the people of the land. After fulfilling that vow, he made Chandragupta the Emperor. He brought Amatya Rakshasa from the enemy camp to serve as Chandragupta's prime minister. His 'Arthashastra' is a classic of statecraft and is reverently st...

6,626円 "The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Søren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously ...

0円 In order to understand Life one needs to understand oneself resonantly. In doing so one understands both one's past and one's future. Over and above that, one understands the world, the universe, the greater Life that one is a part of. One's experience of Life is governed by the feeling 'quality'...

2,919円 “What I have just written is false. True. Neither true nor false, like everything one writes about madmen, about men.” With these sentences, Jean-Paul Sartre undermines the truthfulness of his own autobiography, Les Mots. Undeterred by such circumlocutions, Andrew Leak here cuts through Sartre’s ...

496円 Unul dintre marii scriitori ai secolului XX, Ernesto Sabato, îi cere fostei sale iubite, profesoară de fizică la facultatea din Buenos Aires, despre care crede că are talent literar, să imortalizeze povestea lor clandestină. După câteva decenii, femeia, de origine română, este încurajată de către...