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Agatha Christie

Evil Under the Sun (Pocket Book 1969 Edition)

$6.00
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Ernst Haeckel

The Riddle of the Universe

$30.00
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Christine de Pizand

The Book of the City of Ladies

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$8.99
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Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

$5.99
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Alice Munro

Too Much Happiness: Stories

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$18.00
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Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

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Prophetic Religions and Politics: Religion and Political Order

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From Plato to Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Great Thoughts and Ideas of the Western Mind

$10.00

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Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell’s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure."

In this work, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology? How can we recognize it? Campbell explores these questions in the concluding essay, "The Way of Art," in which he demonstrates that metaphor is the language of art and argues that within the psyches of today's artists are the seeds of tomorrow's mythologies.

Campbell writes in his introduction: "My desire and great pleasure in the preparation of this little volume has been as rendering a return gift to the Graces for the transforming insights of these recent years, which...we have been testing out in a broadly shared spiritual adventure." — Quick view Add to Cart

Joseph Campbell

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

$10.00

This new volume of unpublished writings by Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, The Broken Wings, The Voice of the Master, and other twentieth-century classics, demonstrates three major aspects of his genius.

In one, he is the fiery prophet, assailing the corruptions of Syrian governmental and upper social circles with the wrath and scorn of Biblical seers.

In another, he is the poet of love, apostrophizing beauty, youth, and nature, particualry the wonderful vistas of Lebanon, with its cedar groves and mountains, in poetry of passionate tenderness.

Translated and edited by Anthony R. Ferris — Quick view Add to Cart

Kahlil Gibran

Thoughts and Meditations

$28.00

This lively, succinct history tells philosophy’s big story by relating developments through chronological time to the theme that philosophy is about unifying insights, not opposing systems of thought. A primary or secondary text for courses in introductory philosophy or the history of philosophy, From the Pre-Socratics to the Present presents the philosophers whose insights have had the greatest impact in the discipline. — Quick view Add to Cart

From the Presocratics to the Present

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Two classic pieces of children literature in one volume published by Companion Library.

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle, Illustrations by Sergio Leone

In this enchanting version of the story of King Arthur, the renowned American illustrator and storyteller Howard Pyle displays his unique talent for capturing and stimulating the imaginations of the young. Inventively retold and vividly illustrated, these stories describe the perilous and thrilling adventures of King Arthur and his knights in that glorious age of chivalry and honor.

After showing how Arthur established his right to the throne by drawing the sword from the anvil, the author then relates the story of Arthur's battle with the Sable Knight and his securing the sword Excalibur ― "the most beautiful and the most famous sword in all the world." He tells of Arthur's confrontations with the Duke of North Umber and Sir Pellias, describes King Arthur's wooing and wedding the Lady Guinevere, and tells of the establishment of the Round Table. Tales are told, too, of Arthur's knights, including Merlin the Wise, Sir Pellias (or the Gentle Knight) and of course, Sir Gawaine. One of the key points in the book is Arthur's search for the answer to the riddle "What is it that a woman most desires?" with his life at stake.

The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi, Illustrations by Mariano Leone

Pinocchio plays pranks upon the kindly woodcarver Geppetto, is duped by the Fox and the Cat, kills the pedantic Talking Cricket, and narrowly escapes death, with the help of the blue-haired Fairy. A wooden puppet without strings, Pinocchio is a tragicomic figure, a poor, illiterate, naughty peasant boy who has few choices in life but usually chooses to shirk his responsibilities and get into trouble. This sly and imaginative novel, alternately catastrophic and ridiculous, takes Pinocchio from one predicament to the next, and finally to an optimistic, if uncertain, ending. — Quick view Add to Cart

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights/The Adventures of Pinocchio

$13.00

From the author's Foreword:

"This series of sermon-essays on The Lord's Prayer was prepared for publication from the notes used in the preaching of the sermons in which form they first appeared. An intentional attempt has been made to retain the phrasing and the emphasis of the pulpit. The essays do not pretend to be the polished word of a writer; they are, rather, the utterance of a preacher as he tries to minister to his people from week to week in a parish of nearly five thousand members scattered over a geographical area of overwhelming proportions." — Quick view Add to Cart

The Desires of a Religious Man (Signed and Inscribed)

$75.00

Burma, Greece, the Palau Islands, Nigeria, the Spanish Americans of New Mexico…ancient cultures where the oxcart and the hand plow work side by side with the helicopter and the tractor…where modern methods in child care, farming, health, and manufacturing are enriching old ways of life…

This provocative and authoritative study of the impact of modern technical advances on the traditional life in five representative old societies was prepared by an outstanding group of international social scientists under the direction of the renowned anthropologist, Margaret Mead. — Quick view Add to Cart

Cultural Patterns and Technical Change

$15.00

In this eloquent little book, leading colonial historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr., provides a highly readable overview of the religious beliefs of eleven of the most esteemed men of the generation that declared our independence and wrote the U.S. Constitution. Perhaps for the first time, we confront the breadth and diversity of the Founding Fathers' thinking on religious matters. In fact, their sustained ruminations on issues of religion, conscience, and ethics contributed to making their era one of the greatest in human history.

As Mapp contends, there was "no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers. Their religious attitudes were as varied as their political opinions." This is hardly surprising, as these eleven men -- Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Haym Solomon -- came from many parts of the colonies and from differing social backgrounds.

The Faiths of Our Fathers explores the profound connections between the Revolutionary period and our own. In doing so, it offers a much-needed corrective to the many misconceptions about the role of faith in the lives of our Founding Fathers. — Quick view Add to Cart

The Faiths of Our Fathers

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Mr. Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride.

In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing character of Pooter, the Grossmith brothers created a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle-class suburbia--one which sends up the late Victorian crazes for aestheticism, spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody.

This edition contains the original illustrations by Weedon Grossmith. — Quick view Add to Cart

The Diary of a Nobody

$8.00

No writer in history has illuminated the dark and fantastic side of the human soul with the clarity and perception of Kafka, and this group of stories has been selected to reflect his finest and most representative work.

In his brilliant introduction to this volume, Philip Rahv writes, "Kafka so compellingly arouses in us a sense of immediate relatedness, of strong even if uneasy identification... because of the profound quality of his feeling for the experience of human loss, estrangement, guilt and anxiety—an experience increasingly dominant in the modern age." Indeed, Kafka speaks to today's world with a rarely equaled immediacy and directness of expression.

These selected stories comprise fifteen of Kafka's best-known and most typical works, including "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," "The Great Wall of China," "Investigations of a Dog," and "The New Advocate." — Quick view Add to Cart

Franz Kafka

Selected Stories of Franz Kafka

$12.00

Psychology and the Real World: Essays Illustrating Fundamental Contributions to Society is a collection of brief, personal, original essays, ranging in length from 2500 to 3500 words, in which leading academic psychologists describe what their area of research has contributed to society. The authors are true stars in the field of psychology. Some of their work (for example, Elizabeth Loftus’s studies of false memories, Paul Ekman’s research on facial expression, and Eliot Aronson’s “jigsaw,” or cooperative, classroom studies) is well known to the public. The research of others is less familiar to nonspecialists, but no less fascinating. The book is unique the world of textbook ancillaries in that it does not reprint writings. Rather, innovative psychological scientists clearly and entertainingly tell readers why their research matters and how their line of inquiry developed.

The concept for the book came from the FABBS Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation that supports the work of 22 scholarly societies that span the cognitive, psychological, behavioral, and brain sciences.

The authors have volunteered their contributions. These authors have agreed that all grants, advances, and royalties and other financial earnings from this volume will go to the FABBS Foundation to support their educational mission. — Quick view Add to Cart

Psychology and the Real World

$12.00

Two classic science fiction books by the late British philosopher W. Olaf Stapledon.

One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years.

Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First Men is full of pioneering speculations about evolution, terraforming, genetic engineering and many other subjects. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos. — Quick view Add to Cart

Last and First Men and Star Maker

$25.00

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) is the novel that Anthony Trollope considered his masterpiece.
In the course of the last century and a half, Trollope’s county of Barset has become one of English literature’s most celebrated fictional landscapes. This sixth and final novel in the Barsetshire series revolves around the proud, hardworking, and impecunious Reverend Josiah Crawley, curate of the poor parish of Hogglestock, and his brush with disaster. Crawley stands accused of a theft, but, as he is uncertain himself as to the truth of the matter, he is unable to offer a defense and retreats into self-doubt and shame. The community is bitterly divided between those who wish to help him and those convinced of his guilt, the latter headed by Mrs. Proudie, the bishop’s forceful wife. Meanwhile, Crawley’s daughter Grace has captured the affection of Archdeacon Grantly’s son, Henry, but her father’s scandal stands in the way of their marriage. The solution to the mystery, the downfall of Mrs. Proudie, and the resolution of the fates of many other beloved characters, including Septimus Harding, Johnny Eames, and Lily Dale, bring the famous Barsetshire chronicles to a splendid conclusion. The Last Chronicle of Barset provides a brilliant example of Trollope’s ability to render a highly individual society with such detail and force that it comes to reflect every society, in any age.

Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Gill — Quick view Add to Cart

Anthony Trollope

The Last Chronicle of Barset

$8.00