The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)12 reviews Anonymous Penguin Classics, 1965 Excellent Introduction + Sublime + Probably the best translation for most purposes + vast..universes of spiritual truth             The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)26 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 decent and clear + Superb Modern English Translation + Nicely done + Some Brief Thoughts on this Edition of the Quran + Straight-forward and easy to read translation             The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century ...9 reviews W. W. Norton, 2005 Wonderful... + Thanks + It's Required Needed item for school. Great idea to be able to purchase both volumes at a discounted price.             The Prophet261 reviews Kahlil Gibran Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 Fabulous writing + The Greatest! + The Prophet + If God Himself were to give an opinion...             Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)94 reviews Henry David Thoreau Dover Publications, 1995 The Hobo Philosopher + HDT speaks my mind + A classic + Pertinent and well written             The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)54 reviews Benjamin Franklin Dover Publications, 1996 Franklin's informal account of his remarkable life + an important work - should be read by all young men + You've Got to Love Ben! In many ways, this is, to someone coming to it for the first time, a very surprising book. For one thing, it is amazingly incomplete. Franklin is, of course, one of the most famous Americans who ever lived, and his accomplishments in a wide array of endeavors are a part of American lore and popular ...             A Short History of Nearly Everything621 reviews Bill Bryson Broadway, 2004 Delightful + excellent + A valuable service to society - don't quibble over facts + The history of our world for dummies             Galileo9 reviews Bertolt Brecht Grove Press, 1994 IN DEFENCE OF SCIENCE The pressures that the established order can bring to bear on those who want to move outside the status quo are enormous. In the end those in charge can grind down the best of men with the most worthy knowledge to disseminate. That is the story that the master communist playwright Bertolt Brecht ...             The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version5 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 The Best of the Real Study Bibles + Great study resource + Oxford Annotated NRSV + the new oxford annotated bible with the apocrypha,augmented third edition, new revised standard version             The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic)13 reviews Bantam Classics, 1998 Constitution of the United States, 1791 (Summary) + Fundamental Reading + Can you spend three dollars any wiser? + The Foundations of America in One Book + the most imortant document ever written by free men             Zen in the Art of Archery61 reviews Eugen Herrigel Vintage, 1999 Zen in practice + A Book for all Artists + wonderful insight... + A classic             A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)635 reviews Howard Zinn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 A People's History of the United States + Wow! + Peoples History of the United States This is a book that everyone should read & should be a requirement in all schools.             Essential Rumi67 reviews Jalal al-Din Rumi HarperOne, 1997 Real Men Read Rumi + this is a transcendence, not a 'translation' + Should Own This + Love this book             The Symposium (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Plato Penguin Classics, 2003 The Conversation + It's all in love + Ups and downs We all like to chat about romance around a dinner table but what is romance and love all about? Well, Symposium is one of the most serious discussions about this issue datable to the 5th century BCE. At that time, Greeks at dinner parties used to sprawl themselves on couches with food and wine ...             The Nag Hammadi Library68 reviews James M. Robinson HarperOne, 1990 Necessary + A Definitive New Translation? The Three Sins of James M.Robinson + I like a newer volume of these texts. + Good, but not "definitive" + Nag Hammadi             The Ascent of Humanity9 reviews Charles Eisenstein Panenthea Productions, 2007 Our World---Diagnosis & Prognosis--and for the Reader---Treatment & Healing + Hard-headed scientist approves hippie-dippy tome. + Everything you once thought to be groundbreaking... + An Important Work + Thought-provoking; ties things together             The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)21 reviews Ralph Waldo Emerson Modern Library, 2000 Eye Opening Essays + Excellent essays, but poorly edited + One of the absolute classics If the words of Whitman do not prompt one to at least explore the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson, nothing I say will be able to (or should). I suppose though many readers have merely seen Emerson's name after a famous quote or heard it mentioned by others and are curious about what he wrote. The ...             The Revenge of Gaia51 reviews James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock Basic Books, 2006 Revenge of Gaia + Tipping Point This book was bought for my husband. He liked it very much. He had borrowed it from the library and wanted his own copy.             The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (Meridian)24 reviews Anonymous Plume, 1974 The Lost Books Of The Bible and the Forgotten Books Of Eden + Brethren, you should not be ignorant . + The rest of the story...... + What Might Have Been: Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha             From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present149 reviews Jacques Barzun Harper Perennial, 2001 My enduring Top-2 pick for understanding the Meaning of Life book. + Hey Eric + One of the best books you'll read this year... + The in-depth flow of cultural evolution + This will help every student of art, music, political science,