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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
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Aldous Huxley · 95 pages
The Archaic Revival
Terence McKenna · 276 pages
In these essays, interviews, and narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche and the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past and future.
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer · 341 pages
After spending much of his life shifting between various omnivore and herbivore eating habits, the author presents a thought provoking look at why and how humans choose their diets. Delivering the pros and cons of eating meat, he invites readers on an insightful exploration into the many facets of food. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work,
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte · 245 pages
With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life. Beginning with Alone and closing with Work, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on the inevitable vicissitudes of life: pain and joy, ho
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
Aldo Leopold · 269 pages
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for Americas relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
For the Time Being
Annie Dillard · 205 pages
Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical
This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience
Alan W. Watts · 158 pages
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Marilynne Robinson · 158 pages
Why I Am An Atheist
Bhagat Singh · 30 pages
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung · 244 pages
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
N.D. Wilson · 224 pages
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Windsor Mann · 332 pages
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Margaret Atwood · 230 pages
Investigates the timely subject of debt, exploring debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
Paul Kingsnorth · 366 pages
Satan Speaks!
Anton Szandor LaVey, Blanche Barton, Marilyn Manson · 179 pages
The World As I See It
Albert Einstein · 114 pages
Presents dozens of articles, essays, letters and other correspondence written by Einstein between 1922 and 1934. These revealing pieces focus on the human side of Einstein's accomplishments, covering topics such as the meaning of life, good and evil, religion and science, wealth, pacifism, the world economic crisis, Palestine, and anti-Semitism.
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 852 pages
Toen 'Godel, Escher, Bach' verscheen in 1979 was Hofstadter in een klap wereldberoemd. Het is maar weinigen gegeven zo met taal en kennis te spelen: briljant, erudiet, creatief, humoristisch, en didaktisch van zeer hoog niveau. Dezelfde kwaliteiten bepalen het gezicht van 'Metamagische thema's'. Het is een bundeling van artikelen die in de jaren 1981-1983 in de Scientific American verschenen en di
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Yoshida Kenko · 64 pages
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Walker Percy · 428 pages
What's Wrong With the World
G.K. Chesterton · 176 pages
I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning. And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it)
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
Thomas Lynch · 256 pages
"Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live.". "The essays assembled here explore the human condition at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by mergers and acquisitions, numbed by math and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and ti
The Weight of Glory
C.S. Lewis · 66 pages
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity. from Amazon.com