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mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his "testament," a...... more

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(1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. The work is a study of the major schools of Mahayana...... more

a hostile attitude toward Jews and Judaism; indeed, some of them are tainted with antisemitism. The Qur an, the Holy...... more

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First published in 1928, and translated from the original Japanese by Major A. P. McKenzie, this book sets out the...... more

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Tibullus is one of the three great Roman elegists. In this volume, the award-winning poet A. M. Juster provides a...... more

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poetry compiled in 1243 by Ibn Sa id al Andalusi, a native of Alcal la Real in then Moorish southern Spain. The text is...... more

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in the literature of the Veda and explains the theology, cosmology, and psychology of that holy book. A landmark for...... more

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Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His...... more

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never been a truly satisfactory English translation of the Qur’an, until now. This superb new translation of the Qur’an is...... more

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