Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

Trace the life in the Fertile Crescent with this past to present history reference book.

Enter the world of Modern History and meet the people who braved the open seas in search of new lands and adventures.

A guide to meaningful life choices for living an ethical life without theology or religious faith.

Come See the Garden That Is Your LifeWhen Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world.

The Black Plague is depressing read but it's something that's forever embedded in history.

Do you know who Barry Obama is?

FALL IN LOVE WITH THE LIFE YOU ALREADY HAVE Its easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are out there, somewhere outside of our daily routine.

History is interesting and so is geography.

During the Renaissance period, artists and scientists were considered as the highest individuals in society.

In the middle ages, there were nobles and knights who performed special roles in society.

Henry David Thoreau is beloved as Americas bard of Walden Woods.

Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy.

Examines Transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of powerNathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses to the growing crises of their times.

When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us today.

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold.

The Tao Te Ching, the classic work of ancient Chinese wisdom, has inspired and guided millions of people over more than a hundred generations.

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Those who care for the ailing, whether helping someone recover, grapple with a long-term disability, or face a terminal illness, often feel alone, overwhelmed, exhausted.

The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization.

Let's visit Ancient Rome, and have some great learning fun with the Romans.

A fervent, lifelong student of Zen, Alan Watts shows us that it is both an experience - a singular, powerful moment of realization - and a simple way of life, with an awareness that affects every moment of every day.

How did the ancient civilizations survive?

In this volume, Sorin Sabou explores the dependency of happiness on external goods in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

Is it possible, at all, to visit ancient Greece without leaving the comforts of home?

Why should we encourage kids to study history?

In the following pages, we will get to know about the 50 Famous People in Modern History.

Who was Empress Wu?

How you live today is very different from how a Renaissance child lived.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

In 2003, Brad Warner blew the top off the Buddhist book world with his irreverent autobiography/manifesto, Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality.

Millions of Americans today practice the asanas, or postures, of yoga, but many are unaware of the profound spiritual teachings at the heart of yoga's ancient source scriptures.

Have you ever been to Europe?

Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it.

Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies.

Can you be an atheist and still believe in God?

Don't wait until your kids get to school before they learn about who Confucius is.

History may have been started by the people before us but that story has molded our present.

Relive the Greek gods, goddesses and all those ancient histories with this educational book for children.

Our brains seek order and resist the unexpected, inconsistent, and counterintuitive.

How did the United States of America become a powerful nation?

Did you know that in ancient Europe the distribution of power is so great that nobles were very rich while the slaves were very poor?

Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems.

Make ancient history kid-friendly by carefully crafting the texts and then adding relevant images.

Why is it important to go back to the past?

Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago?

Schools don't just teach children all facts and real things.

This book must be one of the best references in the science's invention department of the renaissance.

How does a real-life Zen master - not the preternaturally calm, cartoonish Zen masters depicted by mainstream culture - help others through hard times when he's dealing with pain of his own?

When Peter J.