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Religion & Philosophy
Religion & Philosophy
Religious studies and Philosophy about the meaning of life and how the great thinkers, poets and writers.of yesteryear fathomed things out.
| RENE DESCARTES Book Number: 25251 |
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Renee Descartes (1596-1650) was the father of modern philosophy and one of the greatest thinkers in history. His genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. He broke the conv...
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| LAO TZU Book Number: 25252 |
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Dating from around 300BC, this is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should ...
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| ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Book Number: 28847 |
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Hailed as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De ...
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| WASHINGTON IRVING Book Number: 56597 |
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According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worsh...
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| NIETZSCHE Book Number: 58191 |
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'Human, All Too Human' (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forc...
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| DAVID HUME Book Number: 65536 |
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David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (173...
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| ABDULLAH YUSUF ALI Book Number: 30323 |
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The Holy Qu'ran (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. Th...
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| EDITED BY TOM GRIFFITH Book Number: 78848 |
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St Augustine's 'Confessions' was written between AD 397-400. An autobiographical work, it was written in 13 parts, each a complete text intended to be read aloud. Written in his early 40s, it docum...
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| JEAN COOPER Book Number: 81755 |
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Sub-titled 'Taoism, The Power of Gold, and The Quest for Immortality', here is an essential guide to Chinese legend and lore, Chinese magic and medicine and Taoism. Here in one slender volume are ...
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| IRENE STENGS Book Number: 81970 |
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Sub-titled 'King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class', the Dutch scholar explores what this ruler's unparalleled popularity says about modern society in Thailand today. The global...
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| ELIZABETH GILBERT Book Number: 82790 |
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Best known as the author of Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert once again fills her readers with empowerment in her recent meditations. On opening the book, you are greeted with the question and resp...
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| JORG RUPKE Book Number: 83994 |
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The Ancient and Modern series from Oxford University Press puts the ancient world in the context of contemporary thinking, and this volume on religion is a particularly fascinating window into the ...
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| DELIA PEMBERTON Book Number: 84336 |
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Buddhism views the world we perceive as an illusion. In accordance with the law of cause and effect, or karma (literally 'action') the soul is propelled into an endless series of reincarnations. ...
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| ABBIE FAREWELL BROWN Book Number: 84567 |
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Join the Norse gods Odin, Loki and Thor as they and their companions battle, bicker and banter their way through life in this compilation of Scandinavian folklore. Discover how the world began find...
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| Z'EV BEN SHIMON HALEVI Book Number: 84666 |
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A big, glamorous Thames & Hudson softback first published in 1979 and here in reprint with 127 illustrations, 14 of which are in colour. Kabbalah is the mystical aspect of Judaism. In Biblical, m...
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| SIR THOMAS BROWNE Book Number: 84673 |
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First published in 1881 and printed in this enlarged edition in 1990, we are thrilled to have this facsimile which must have been lurking in a nice dry warehouse for quite some time and is now quit...
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| NEALE DONALD WALSCH Book Number: 84850 |
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The dialogue continues - this paradigm shift will take great wisdom, great courage and massive determination. For fear will strike at the heart of these concepts and call them false...yet you will...
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| SHELLEY EMLING Book Number: 85154 |
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Sub-titled 'The Brief, Astonishing Life of St Catherine of Siena', here is the first modern, secular biography of Italy's answer to Joan of Arc. Only one of two patron saints of Italy, the other b...
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| PLATO Book Number: 83605 |
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Socrates was one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity and we only know of him and his ideas through the words of his most prominent student, Plato. Plato was a prolific writer and produced se...
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| KRISTA TIPPETT Book Number: 84920 |
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Sub-titled 'An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living', here is a Penguin paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller. Krista Tippett has created a masterclass in living in a fractured ...
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| ANITA DIAMANT Book Number: 84927 |
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Loosely based on stories found in the Bible, here is a brilliant fictionalised work which became a film and a New York Times bestseller and here in 20th anniversary edition which Bibliophile has im...
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| JOHN BROOM Book Number: 85165 |
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'My son, cast thy heart firmly on the Lord, and fear not the judgement of men, when conscience testifieth of thy dutifulness and innocencey.' - Edith Cavell. A toxic mix of nationalism and militar...
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| GEORGE OLIVER Book Number: 81036 |
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Written in 1841, this study by leading Freemason George Oliver examines initiation rituals from many cultures to make the argument that these traditions have a common origin. An initial chapter des...
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| J. DUQUESNE & F. LEBRETT Book Number: 85030 |
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The carefully chosen works of art depict major events in the history of the Christian church. Each painting is shown on the right-hand-side of the page, whilst on the left is an in-depth descriptio...
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| GARY RASHBA Book Number: 85031 |
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The Holy Land, an area stretching between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, has been disputed territory throughout history. The author of this fascinating book describes 17 notable battle...
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| BENEDICT DE SPINOZA Book Number: 30619 |
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Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his dea...
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| MICHAEL MOORE Book Number: 84461 |
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Ancient philosophy asks about what is real, what we as human animals are, whether and what a soul is. It asks about how we are to live, what our purpose in life is, and how we are to treat our fel...
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| ROBIN LANE FOX Book Number: 85053 |
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A magisterial and beautifully written authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, vulnerable and profound, written by the Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford. 'You ar...
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| VITTORIO SGARBI Book Number: 85061 |
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350 masterly colour images depict our Lord Jesus Christ suffering, in joy, anger, mercy, weakness, friendship, even whimsy. The book explores how the image of the Son, not the Father, inspired peo...
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| PHILIP JENKINS Book Number: 85065 |
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We all recognise the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but the alternative scriptures which arose in the variety of Christian sects after Christ's death are uncovered despite original attem...
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