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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 l……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Most visitors begin their Papuan experiences at Port Moresby, but you begin yours at a smaller place, where I have spent the last seventeen years. The village is called Delena, and you can find it o……続きを見る

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 thr……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

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 ob……続きを見る

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 a……続きを見る

"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 an……続きを見る

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, th……続きを見る

“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 a……続きを見る

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 imorta……続きを見る

A young mans journey and phoenix like transformation from a life of barbaric, ignorance into the infinite blissful sea of the light of spirituality in India,Nepal and Tibet.An inner and outward jour……続きを見る

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Nationalism was a driving, moving spirit in the nineteenth-century Germany of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Jerry F. Dawson, through his thoughtful and well-wrought study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, pr……続きを見る

This is the third part of the three part series which include the following: Part III Ramanujacharya Madhwacharya Shankaracharya Swami Vivekananda Bhakta Tukaram 続きを見る

The book is the second part of the two part series on Indian Thinkers featuring the following TENALI RAMAKRISHNA BANKIM CHANDRA ANAND COOMARASWAMY VIDURA CHANAKYA 続きを見る

The second part of the series featuring the following saints. Part II Ramasingh Kuka Tulasidas Deshikaru Namadeva Ramadas続きを見る

One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intell……続きを見る

The author, George Shominov, was born in 1958, wrote a book based on his own long-term experience the practical Yoga of Sleep and Dreams, narrates about passing from simple dreams to Conscious Dream……続きを見る

A short book combining extracts from the work of one of the world's greatest thinkers with commentary by one of Britain's most distinguished writers on philosophy. 続きを見る

Popular Great Philosopher's Series. An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often ci……続きを見る

The Story of My Misfortunes The Autobiography of Peter Abelard tr. by Henry Adams Bellows "Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was one of the great intellectuals of the 12th century, with especial import……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Misère de la philosophie est une œuvre de Karl Marx parue en juin 1847. Son titre constitue une reprise inversée de l'ouvrage de Prou……続きを見る

The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As th……続きを見る

Young Angelique is a recent immigrant to Canada from France, running from a broken heart, a broken family, and a life that she seeks to leave behind in exchange for a new existence in a new world. S……続きを見る

Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series. John Locke 1632-1704 What Newton did for physics in the seventeenth century, Locke did for philosophy. The revolution wrought by these two giants established t……続きを見る

'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.' So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical……続きを見る

Apollonius of Tyana by G.R.S. Mead Apollonius of Tyana had the myth and ambiance about him equal to and perhaps even approaching the level the other Jewish sage - Jesus of Nazareth. The reason Apoll……続きを見る

I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some sci……続きを見る

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell 'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what y……続きを見る