Overview :One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus--featured here in a stand-alone edition--is a crucial exposition of ... Read More
Overview :Q. Why are there almost as many jokes about death as there are about sex? A. Because they both scare the pants off us. Thomas Cathcart an... Read More
Overview :Experience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over ... Read More
Overview :In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how... Read More
Overview :Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our per... Read More
Overview :The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of ... Read More
Overview :Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic... Read More
Overview :Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms... Read More
Overview :In 1933 the crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a practicing lawyer, unleashed the character Perry Mason in the novel The Case of the... Read More
Overview :Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. "the philosopher-king of comedy," and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material. Twenty... Read More
Overview :As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber--the leading theorist in the field of ... Read More
Overview :Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist wit... Read More
Overview :The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in... Read More
Overview :Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life of Our Lord ... Read More
Overview :Hannibal Lecter, the subject of best-selling novels, movies, and the acclaimed TV series Hannibal, is one of pop culture's most compelling c... Read More
Overview :The Princess Bride is the 1987 satirical adventure movie that had to wait for the Internet and DVDs to become the most quoted of all cult cl... Read More