Indian Buddhist Philosophy: Metaphysics as Ethics (Ancient Philosophies)
By: Amber Carpenter
4.00
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the gre…
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By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
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"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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4. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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6. The Foundations of Buddhism
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3.91
Format: 20 pages, Paperback
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7. The Dhammapada
By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more
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8. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Padmakara Translation Group , Śāntideva
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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By: Spencer Wells
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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10. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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11. 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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12. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
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13. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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14. Why I Am Not a Buddhist
By: Evan Thompson
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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15. Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction
By: Jan Westerhoff
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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16. The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
By: Jan Westerhoff
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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17. Indian Buddhist Philosophy: Metaphysics as Ethics (Ancient Philosophies)
By: Amber Carpenter
4.00
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the gre… read more
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18. The Dhammapada: A Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
By: Gil Fronsdal
4.58
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India
By: Johannes Bronkhorst
3.89
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
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