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  • The Path

    What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

    by Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh ...
    For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Practice of Wisdom

    Five Quests

    by Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, Michael Puett ...
    A master class from four renowned Harvard professors—an anthropologist, a physician, a theologian, and a historian—on discovering wisdom in challenging times.In moments of uncertainty, to whom do we turn for solace and insight? How can we endure and overcome our own suffering? Harvard University professors Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, and Michael Puett turn to great ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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  • The Ambivalence of Creation

    Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China

    by Michael J. Puett ...
    As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries B.C.), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a sage innovate? If so, under what conditions? Where did human culture originally come from? Was it ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    The Path

    What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

    by Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh ...
    Narrated by Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 12 min

    For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Huainanzi

    Edited by John Major, Sarah Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, Harold Roth ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, The Huainanzi is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous self-cultivation and mental discipline, brilliantly synthesizing for readers past and present the full spectrum of early ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    The Practice of Wisdom

    Five Quests

    by Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, Michael Puett ...
    Narrated by Sandra Churchill, Matt Godfrey ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    In moments of uncertainty, to whom do we turn for solace and insight? How can we endure and overcome our own suffering? Harvard University professors Davíd Carrasco, Arthur Kleinman, Stephanie Paulsell, and Michael Puett turn to great thinkers, artists, and religious traditions not for definitive answers, but for lessons we can bring to our own quests for wisdom. Wisdom, they find, is not an ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • DIVINITY SCHOOL

    by Elizabeth Pyjov, Luis Fernández Cifuentes ...
    This collection of poems offers a Buddhist reinterpretation of Judeo-Christian theology, examining core religious concepts and figures through an Eastern philosophical lens.It presents alternative perspectives on well-known biblical narratives, such as the roles of God, Eve, Christ, and the apostles, often emphasizing themes of non-duality, doubt as a twin of belief, and the limitations of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Analects

    An Illustrated Edition

    by Confucius ...
    Translated by Brian Bruya ...
    Series series The Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics
    For the first time in one volume, The Analects illustrated by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful graphic adaptation of The Analects, one of the most influential books of all time and a work that continues ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Why We Play

    An Anthropological Study

    by Roberte Hamayon ...
    Translated by Damien Simon ...
    Whether it’s childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity’s seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play’s many ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    No Time Like the Present

    Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

    by Jack Kornfield ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and “one of the great spiritual teachers of our time” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple) Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be instantly happy with the keys to inner freedom.Through his signature warmhearted, poignant, often funny stories, with their a-ha moments and O. Henry-like outcomes, Jack Kornfield shows how we ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

    How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

    by Jack Lowery ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 9 min

    An “unsparing account” (NPR) of art collective Gran Fury, which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propagandaIn the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Chinese Philosophy - Simple Guides

    by Peter Nancarrow ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time• to recognize traditional concepts that continue to inform Chinese thinking today China, an emerging superpower, is heir ... Read more

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