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  • The Baboons of Hada

    by Eric Ormsby ...
    Written over a period of 30 years, this precise and generous poetry opens with an exuberant bestiary of spiders, starfish, penguins, snakes, and contemplative baboons. The collection then moves on to explore a world of intricate wonders and memories: the grandeur of noses, the mayonnaise tornado whipped up by a kitchen whisk, and the gossip gravediggers whisper to the dead. Finally, the poet's ... Read more

    $23.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time's Covenant

    Selected Poems

    by Eric Ormsby ...
    Bringing together Eric Ormsby's entire poetic oeuvre thus far, including a healthy selection of previously unpublished poems, Time's Covenant is timeless, by one of America's best poets. Essential reading. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Ghazali

    The Revival of Islam

    by Eric Ormsby ...
    Series series Makers of the Muslim World
    This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period. Attracting the patronage of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk early in his career, he was appointed head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad, and attracted audiences from across the Islamic world, who sought his teachings on Islamic philosophy and jurisprudence. Eventually ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Between Reason and Revelation

    Twin Wisdoms Reconciled

    Edited by Eric Ormsby ...
    Series series Ismaili Texts and Translations
    I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThis is the first English translation of the final philosophical work of the great eleventh-century Ismaili thinker, poet, and Fatimid emissary, N?sir-i Khusraw. Appointed from Cairo by command of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mustansir to serve first as a d?'?, and then as the hujjat, for the entire region of Khur?s?n, he maintained his ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • West-Eastern Divan

    Complete, annotated new translation (bilingual edition)

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Eric Ormsby ...
    In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian poetic traditions, and was immediately inspired to create his own West-Eastern Divan as a lyrical conversation between the poetry and history of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • From Africa to Zen

    An Invitation to World Philosophy

    by Roger T. Ames, J Baird Callicott, David L. Hall, Peter D. Hershock, Oliver Leaman, Janet McCracken, Robert A. McDermott, Eric Ormsby, Thomas W. Overholt, Graham Parkes, Roy Perrett, Stephen H. Phillips, Homayoon Sepasi-Tehrani, Jacqueline Trimier, Jorge Valadez ...
    In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an

    Scriptural Sources of Islam Between History and Fervor

    by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi ...
    Translated by Eric Ormsby ...
    Two major events occurred in the early centuries of Islam that determined its historical and spiritual development in the centuries that followed: the formation of the sacred scriptures, namely the Qur'an and the Hadith, and the chronic violence that surrounded the succession of the Prophet, manifesting in repression, revolution, massacre, and civil war.This is the first book to evaluate the ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning … A masterpiece’.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker – and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they ... Read more

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  • Misquoting Muhammad

    The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy

    by Jonathan A.C. Brown ...
    Series series Islam in the Twenty-First Century
    A much needed and timely work on the contentious issues of Islamic thought in the modern worldAN INDEPENDENT RELIGION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Lucid, learned and engaging.'The Sunday TimesFew things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • How the World Thinks

    A Global History of Philosophy

    by Julian Baggini ...
    *SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' ObserverIn this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought.One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the s... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ariel

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They ... Read more

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  • Philosophy in the Islamic World

    A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3

    by Peter Adamson ...
    Series series A History of Philosophy
    The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing full coverage of Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslims, and by taking the story of philosophy from its beginnings in the ... Read more

    $8.79 CAD