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Simon & Schuster, New York, 2015. 2nd trade paperback edition. Condition: New.For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives.Waking Up is part memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no… Read More

Harper, New York, 1989. 18th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, fading to cover, light price sticker residue, slight corner creasing, spine crease, well read.Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings—as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

New Directions, New York. 13th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover, light nicks at spine.The Wall, the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out.This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it.

Condition: Good, light edge and corner wear, slight creasing and indentations at rear cover. No interior writing or markings.Everyone's favorite big-eared little elephant finds his way to the skies.

Abacus, UK, 2010. 31st trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.… Read More

DC Comics, New York, 1987. First softcover printing with the full number line indicated. Alternate scarce cover. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, spine ahs creasing and light nicks, back cover shows some scuffing on black areas.This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.

TSR. 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, small indentations at rear cover.The streets of Waterdeep, where danger lurks round every corner as the avatars of the gods seek the Tablets of Fate.Where Cyric and Myrkul, god of death, plot to capture Midnight and twist the Tablets to their own dark ends, imperiling the very existence of Faerun. Where the destiny of the world will be decided and a new pantheon of gods will rise into the heaven.

Traveler's Tales, Palo Alto. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear.Foreword by Pico Iyer.As a professional travel writer and editor for the past 40 years, Don George has been paid to explore the world. Through the decades, his articles have been published in magazines, newspapers, and websites around the globe and have won more awards than almost any other travel writer alive, yet his pieces have never been collected into one volume. The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George fills this void with a moving and inspiring collection of tales and reflections from one of America's most acclaimed and beloved travel writers.From his high-spirited account of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on a whim when he was 22 years old to his heart-plucking description of a home-stay in a muddy compound in Cambodia as a 61-year-old, this collection ranges widely. As renowned for his insightful observations as for his poetic prose, George always absorbs the essence of… Read More

Citadel Press, New York, 2002. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Introduction by Norman Spinrad.Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1952-1955. These fascinating stories include We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, The Cookie Lady, The World She Wanted, and many others.

Ace, New York, 1980. First paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine creases and nicks, ex-library.Rob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why The King of Space had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power...Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars.

Ace, New York, 1983. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, dust shadow on rear cover.

Berkley, New York, 1983. First paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light creasing at spine, light nicks at spine ends, light age toning to inside pages.The Eternal Champion. The albino Emperor meets Queen Yishana. Now sword and man are one. Elric's awesome loneliness, ironically, is ended. And the Eternal Champion and his blade Strombringer must go forth through havoc and horror to carve out their destiny.

First edition, illustrated.
Condition: Near fine book in very good plus dust jacket, the dust jacket has light edge creases, slight crease at spine. This is a large book and may require additional postage.
Photographs by Peter Christopher
Retells the story of Columbus's first voyage, and uses the experiences gained by sailing a replica of the Nina to describe what that trip must have been like.

ECW Press, Toronto, 2008. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slight creasing at spine, a few pages have been folded corners.What Does The Moon Smell Like? is an all ages quiz book that feeds your brain tasty, bite-sized tidbits of cool science trivia. It tickles your brain while giving it a workout, so your brain won't even know that it's been to the gym! From the surprising science behind everyday life, to the mysteries on the frontiers of scientific discovery, What Does The Moon Smell Like? explores anything and everything in a user-friendly quiz format.

Tarcher, New York, 2010. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light corner wear and slight nicks at spine.In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.

36th paperback printing.

Condition: Near fine, very light spine crease.

This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings. "For years," says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, "the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula's What the Buddha Taught fills the need as only could be done by one having a firm grasp of the vast material to be sifted. It is a model of what a book should be that is addressed first of all to 'the educated and intelligent reader'. Authoritative and clear, logical and sober, this study is as comprehensive as it is masterly."

This edition contains a selection of illustrative texts from the Suttas and the Dhammapada (specially translated by the author), sixteen illustrations, and a bibliography, glossary and index.

Knopf, Toronto, 1999. First edition. Condition: Book is near fine, slightly bowed, dust jacket has edge wear and creasing along spine.Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. Soshe is elated to learn she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner in a union beneficial to both. For Sardaji's first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him children. Roop believes that she and Satya, still very much in residence, will be friends. But the relationship between the older and younger woman is far more complex. And, as India lurches toward independence, Sardarji struggles to find his place amidst the drastic changes.

Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, corners have nicks and bumps, back cover has light indentations.NO writing or markings.

Condition: Very good minus, light edge wear and corner bumps, light stretch marks on bottom near spine on protective plastic, faint spine crease.

Hyperion, New York, 1993. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Slight edge wear.When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson is a revealing, no holds barred account of the life and times of the outrageous originator of Gonzo journalism.