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Bhagavad Gita, The Alan Jacobs 9781903816516
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The "Bhagavad Gita" is a sacred scripture of epic dimensions and is the key sacred text of Hinduism. It means the "song of God" and is often called the "Song Celestial". Alan Jacobs uses contemporary... -
Principal Upanishads Alan Jacobs 9781903816509
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The "Upanishads" are the sacred writings of Hinduism. They are perhaps the greatest of all the books in the history of world religions. Their origins predate recorded history, being revealed to the... -
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £13.16Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers... -
How To Think: A Guide for the Perplexed by Alan Jacobs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. Most of us... -
What Became of Wystan? by Alan Jacobs 9781557285829
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939. By carefully examining poems that represent transitional... -
The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography by Alan Jacobs 9780691191782
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.64How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English languageWhile many of us are familiar with such famous words as "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. ... -
Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs 9780060872571
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060872571Author Alan JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Native American Wisdom - Sacred Texts: A Spiritual Tradition at One with Nature Alan Jacobs 9781786781390
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Although there are major differences in the lifestyles of the numerous Native American nations, they share fundamental beliefs. The spiritual wisdom of these people is based on a love and reverence... -
Red Death by Alan Jacobson
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504063579Author Alan JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint -
Velocity by Alan Jacobson 9781497692084
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Spectrum by Alan Jacobson 9781624672712
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624672712Author Alan JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint -
No Way Out by Alan Jacobson 9781497655362
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Crush by Alan Jacobson 9781497692077
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Dark Side of the Moon by Alan Jacobson 9781504050098
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.82The OPSIG team must literally leave Earth to save it in this "thriller ride of a lifetime" from the USA Today-bestselling author of The Lost Codex (Gayle Lynds). In 1972, Apollo 17 returned to Earth... -
Hard Target by Alan Jacobson 9781504013383
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The 7th Victim: A Novel by Alan Jacobson 9781497692046
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The Illustrated Gnostic Gospels (Watkins Illustrated Classics): Including The Gospel of Judas, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene Alan Jacobs 9781786789662
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50A stunning illustrated gift edition of the bestselling Alan Jacobs edition of the Christian mystical sacred text The Gnostic Gospels. Includes c.50 full-colour illustrations in a hardcover package... -
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Professor Ian Stewart 9781781259429
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu' Tim Radford Many people think mathematics is... -
The Gnostic Gospels: Including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Vrej Nersessian
Booksplease Price: £19.38The selections made in this volume shed light on these esoteric doctrines revealing intimate conversations between Jesus and his Disciples. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene throws new light on his... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.94When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the... -
Gandhi by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50This unique and important anthology offers a judicious, manageable and appealing selection from around 50,000 pages of work published originally in approximately 100 books. Alan Jacobs' choice... -
Dreamer in the Dream, The Jane Adams 9781846949821
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is... -
Why Souls?: A Mirror to the Universe Joshua R. Farris 9781903816417
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In Why Souls? A Mirror to the Universe, author Joshua R. Farris carefully examines some of the best-laid arguments for the soul, ultimately advancing his own, claiming that embracing the concept of... -
The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden 9780691260921
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.55Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles,... -
The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.30The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has... -
Watkins Masters of Wisdom: Osho: Living Dangerously: Ordinary Enlightenment for Extraordinary Times Osho 9781780280073
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Nearly three decades after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers around the world. This inspiring compendium of spiritual wisdom and insight offers a... -
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he... -
The Wondrous Journey: Into the Depth of Our Being by Ilie Cioara 9781846949517
Booksplease Price: £12.75The Wondrous Journey is Ilie Cioaras follow up to The Silence of the Mind. A practical book on meditation and enlightenment, a must read for any spiritual seeker. A less rational and more poetic... -
Enlightenment: The Path Through the Jungle by Waite Dennis 9781846941184
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £16.73What is enlightenment? What is it not? This book exposes the myths and defines this misused term once and for all. Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? This book explains... -
Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation - Revised Edition: Korzybski Non-Aristotelian Thinking and Enlightenment by Ted Falconar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64In this revised edition of Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation: Korzybski, Non-Aristotelian Thinking and Enlightenment Ted Falconar has written a comprehensive new introduction and provided... -
Words for Readers and Writers: Spirit-Pooled Dialogues by Larry Woiwode
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.19Writing is foundational, allowing us to communicate and construct meaning. This collection of 21 essays invites us to explore the significance of writing as well as to believe in the transforming... -
Theology and Literature after Postmodernity by Peter Hampson 9780567672056
Booksplease Price: £40.79This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a... -
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life by Rod Dreher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.52THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When... -
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen 9781324116776
Booksplease Price: £13.14We embraced the mediated life-from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse-because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp... -
Back to the Truth - 5000 years of Advaita Dennis Waite 9781905047611
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Advaita is a spiritual philosophy based on the Upanishads, older than most other religious systems we know about but also the most logical and scientific in its approach. The literal meaning is "Not... -
Talking about Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations by Isaac Adams
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Conversations about racism are as important as they are hard for American Christians.Yet the conversation often gets so ugly, even among the faithful who claim unity in Jesus. Why is that the case?... -
Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays 9781481305242
Booksplease Price: £39.09The claim that the events of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection took place ""according to the Scriptures"" stands at the heart of the New Testament's message. All four canonical Gospels declare...