A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
4.28
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
This modern translation of the Abhidhammattha Sangaha (Manual of Abhidhamma) offers an introduction…
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1. Autobiography of a Yogi
By: Paramahansa Yogananda
4.24
Format: 503 pages, Paperback
This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures … read more
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"Who am I? The great inquiry indeed."-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
"Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo"-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
By: Joseph Goldstein
4.38
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The mind contains the seeds of its own awakening—seeds that we can cultivate to bring forth the fru… read more
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- philosophy
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4. What the Buddha Taught
By: Walpola Rahula , None
4.18
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” s… read more
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- psychology
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"Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ)."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
"The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet."-Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
5. Theological-Political Treatise
By: Baruch Spinoza , Seymour Feldman , Samuel Shirley
4.08
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
D’abord paru sous le couvert de l’anonymat en 1670, le Traité théologico-politique fut rapidement a… read more
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"The purpose of the state is really freedom."-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
"لم يستطِعْ أحدٌ أن يستمرَّ في الحُكم طويلًا عن طريق العنف"-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
"No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand."-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
"لا يحدُث شيء يُناقِض الطبيعة، فالطبيعة تحتفِظ بنظامٍ أزلي لا يتغيَّر"-Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
6. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
By: Padmasambhava , Robert A.F. Thurman , Karma-glin-pa
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Imagine that as you leave your body at death, you hear the voice of a loved one whispering in your … read more
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"No sane person fears nothingness."-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"But his virtue was a matter of habit only and he had no philosophy"-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks."-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, --these two,-- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-Kāya state of Perfect Enli…"-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
7. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull , Herbert Read , Michael Fordham
4.30
Format: 550 pages, Hardcover
Bollingen Series XX. Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On th… read more
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- psychology
"Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness."-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
"Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
"Strong natures – or should one rather call them weak? - do not like to be reminded of this [their unconscious nature], but prefer to think of themselves as heroes."-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)
8. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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10. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
11. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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12. God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
By: Stephen Prothero
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interc… read more
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13. The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
By: Thomas McEvilley
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain:… read more
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14. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Padmakara Translation Group , Śāntideva
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is … read more
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15. The Bostonians
By: Henry James
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspi… read more
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16. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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- psychology
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
17. Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
By: Stephen Batchelor
3.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Written with the same brilliance and boldness that made Buddhism Without Beliefsa classic in its fi… read more
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18. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
19. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
By: Nāgārjuna , Jay L. Garfield
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is u… read more
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20. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
21. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
By: Francisco J. Varela , Evan Thompson , Eleanor Rosch
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
The Embodied Mindprovides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimen… read more
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22. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
By: Mahatma Gandhi
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more
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23. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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24. The Art of Solitude
By: Stephen Batchelor
3.63
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his t… read more
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"The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it."-Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude
"That is why it is not enough to remove oneself from people, not enough to go somewhere else. We have to remove ourselves from the habits of the populace that are within us. We have to isolate our own…"-Stephen Batchelor, The Art of Solitude
25. Satipatthana Meditation: A Practice Guide
By: Analayo
4.69
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Buddhist meditator and scholar, Bhikkhu Anālayo, this is a thorough-going guide to the ear… read more
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26. A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
4.28
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
This modern translation of the Abhidhammattha Sangaha (Manual of Abhidhamma) offers an introduction… read more
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27. Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses
By: Bhikkhu Anālayo
4.73
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
The ensuing pages present a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide p… read more
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28. Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (The Teachings of the Buddha)
By: Nyanaponika Thera
4.62
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A perennial favorite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-selling Teachings… read more
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29. A Meditator's Life of the Buddha: Based on the Early Discourses
By: Analayo
4.62
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Anālayo offers an inspiring biography of the Buddha, focusing on his meditative development and pra… read more
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30. The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
By: Buddhaghosa
4.43
Format: 950 pages, Hardcover
One of Buddhism’s foundational texts, the Visuddhimagga is a systematic examination and condensatio… read more
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31. The Amrtasiddhi and Amrtasiddhimula: The Earliest Texts of the Hathayoga Tradition
By: James Mallinson
5.00
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
This book introduces, edits, and translates the two earliest texts of the hathayoga tradition, the … read more
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