Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
By: Robert Alter , Gershom Scholem
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and c…
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1. The Enneads
By: Plotinus , Stephen MacKenna , John M. Dillon , Stephan MacKenna
4.06
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Plotinus is the last great philosopher of antiquity, although in more than one respect, a precursor… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- mysticism
"That which is afraid is that which is capable of being affected."-Plotinus, The Enneads
"The purification of the Soul is simply to allow it to be alone; it is pure when it keeps no company."-Plotinus, The Enneads
"Bad men rule by the feebleness of the ruled; and this is just; the triumph of weaklings would not be just."-Plotinus, The Enneads
"Those incapable of thinking gravely read gravity into frivolties which correspond to their own frivolous nature."-Plotinus, The Enneads
2. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
By: Robert Alter , Gershom Scholem
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and c… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher
4.16
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more
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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
4. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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5. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
By: Susannah Heschel , Abraham Joshua Heschel , Ilya Schor
4.16
Format: 354 pages,
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabba… read more
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- jewish
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6. Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
By: Jay Michaelson
5.00
Format: None pages,
This exploration of the radical, yet ancient, idea that everything and everyone is God will transfo… read more
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7. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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8. East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
By: Philippe Sands
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secre… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more
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- history
10. Moses and Monotheism
By: Sigmund Freud , Katherine Jones
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This volume contains Freud's speculations on various aspects of religion, on the basis of which he … read more
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- judaism
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11. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
By: Mary Douglas
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In Purity and DangerMary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of e… read more
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12. The Temple of Dawn
By: Yukio Mishima , E. Dale Saunders , Cecilia Segawa Seigle
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is gr… read more
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13. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
By: Pete Walker
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more
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14. The Book of the Law
By: Aleister Crowley , None
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This oft-misunderstood phrase, which forms the b… read more
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- religion
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"Love is the law, love under will."-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
"Every man and every woman is a star."-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt."-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
15. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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16. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
17. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
18. The Guide for the Perplexed
By: Maimonides
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is the full, unabridged text of one of the greatest philosophic works of all time. Written by … read more
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19. To Pray As A Jew: A Guide To The Prayer Book And The Synagogue Service
By: None
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rabbi Donin offers a detailed guide to Jewish prayer which takes the reader through the entire pres… read more
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20. Runaway Horses
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns … read more
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21. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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