The list below contains a bunch of my philosophy, religion, psychology items. Mostly academic-scholarly things. If you scroll past those, you will see what I affectionately call my “pulp non-fiction.” Those are History, Military, and Biography items.
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology
A.
Adorno, Theodor – In Search of Wagner
Adorno, Theodor – Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music
Adorno, Theodor – Aesthetic Theory
Agamben, Giorgio – The Open
Agamben, Giorgio – The Man Without Content
Agamben, Giorgio – State of Exception
Agamben, Giorgio – The Highest Poverty
Agamben, Giorgio – Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Althusser, Louis – For Marx – 1970 ed. (trans. B. Brewster)
Arendt, Hannah – Crises of the Republic
Arendt, Hannah – The Origins of Totalitarianism
Ayerza, Josefina (ed.) – lacanian ink 41/42
Ayerza, Josefina (ed.) – lacanian ink 43/44
B.
Badiou, Alain – Being and Event
Badiou, Alain – In Praise of Love
Badiou, Alain – Logics of Worlds
Badiou, Alain – Second Manifesto for Philosophy
Badiou, Alain – The True Life
Barzun, Jacques – Darwin, Marx, Wagner
Barzun, Jacques – From Dawn to Decadence
Barzun, Jacques – Teacher in America
Barzun, Jacques – The House of Intellect
Baudrillard, Jean – The Agony of Power
Baudrillard, Jean – Simulacra and Simulation
Baudrillard, Jean – The Vital Illusion
Baudrillard, Jean – The Intelligence of Evil
Baudrillard, Jean – The Perfect Crime
Berdyaev, Nicolas – The Destiny of Man – 1960; Harper & Row
Berger, Peter L. – The Social Construction of Reality
Berger, Peter L. – The Sacred Canopy
Berger, Peter L. – Invitation to Sociology
Berlin, Isaiah – Karl Marx: His Life and Environment – 3rd Edition; 1973
Bernasconi, Robert & Simon Critchley (eds.) – Re-Reading Levinas – 1991; Indiana Uni. Press
Blacker, Carmen – The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan (1975 ed.)
Boshan – Great Doubt – (trans. Jeff Shore)
Braverman, Arthur (trans.) – Mud & Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
Breuer, Joseph – Introduction to the Theory of Sets
Burckhardt, Jacob – Force and Freedom 1955
Burckhardt, Jacob – The Greeks and Greek Civilization
C.
Campbell, Joseph – The Power of Myth 1991 ed.
Camus, Albert – The Myth of Sisyphus
Cantor, Georg – Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers
Cassirer, Ernst – An Essay on Man
Cassirer, Ernst – The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Chapman, Siobhan – Philosophy for Linguists: An Introduction
Chomsky, Noam – Hegemony or Survival
Chomsky, Noam – Failed States
Christian, William A. – Oppositions of Religious Doctrines – 1972
Claussen, Detlev – Theodor Adorno, One Last Genius
Cook, Francis Dojun – How to Raise an Ox
Covell, Stephen G. – Japanese Temple Buddhism – 2005 – University of Hawaii Press
D.
Day, Dorothy – The Long Loneliness
de Chardin, Teilhard – The Divine Milieu
de Chardin, Teilhard – The Phenomenon of Man
Dilthey, Wilhelm – Selected Works Vol. 1: Introduction to the Human Sciences
Donington, Robert – Wagner’s ‘Ring’ and its Symbols
Dubord, Guy – Society of the Spectacle
Dufresne, Todd – Killing Freud
Durkheim, Emile – The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
E.
Eagleton, Terry – Culture and the Death of God – (2014)
Eliade, Mircea – The Myth of the Eternal Return
Eves, Howard – Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics – 3rd ed
F.
Fanon, Frantz – The Wretched of the Earth
Fedotov, Georgy – The Russian Religious Mind
Foucault, Michel – “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Foucault, Michel – Archaeology of Knowledge
Foucault, Michel – Discipline and Punish
Fremantle, Anne – A Primer of Linguistics (1974 edition)
Frenzel, Ivo – Friedrich Nietzsche: An Illustrated Biography
Freud, Sigmund – Civilization and Its Discontents
Fromm, Erich – The Sane Society
Fromm, Erich – Beyond the Chains of Illusion – 1966
Fukuyama, Francis – The End of History and the Last Man
G.
Gadamer, H. – Philosophical Hermeneutics – 2008 (trans. David E. Linge)
Gadamer, H. – Truth and Method – Continuum; 2006
Gadamer, H. – The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
Gadhafi, M. – The Green Book
Godel, Kurt – On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
Grousset, René – The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire
H.
Habermas, Juergen – Legitimation Crisis
Hansen, Wilburn – When Tengu Talk – (2008) Uni. of Hawaii Press
Hartman, Robert S. – Reason in History: Hegel
Hegel, G. W. F. – Phenomenology of Spirit – trans. A. V. Miller
Hegel, G. W. F. – Lectures on the Philosophy of World History – trans. H. B. Nisbet
Heisenberg, Werner – Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Horkheimer, M. & T. Adorno – Dialectic of Enlightenment – trans. Edmund Jephcott
J.
Jakobson, Roman – The Framework of Language
James, William – The Varieties of Religious Experience – 1961 ed.
Jay, Martin – Adorno
Jay, Martin – The Dialectical Imagination
K.
Kaufmann, Walter – Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Keegan, John – The Face of Battle
Kekes, John – The Illusions of Egalitarianism
Kelly, Laurence – Lermontov: Tragedy in the Caucasus
Kerr, Fergus – Immortal Longings
Klemperer, Victor – Language of the Third Reich
Kokushi, Muso – Dream Conversations: on Buddhism and Zen
Kuhn, Thomas S. – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kusan Sunim – The Way of Korean Zen
L.
Lacan, Jacques – “Écrits” – (trans. Bruce Fink)
Lacan, Jacques – “On the Names-of-the-Father” – (trans. Bruce Fink)
Lacan, Jacques – Seminar XI: “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis”
Lee, M. Owen – Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art
Lenin, V. I. – What is to be done?
Lenin, V. I. – State and Revolution
Lenin, V. I. – Revolution at the Gates (ed. with Intro by S. Zizek)
Leupin, Alexandre – Lacan Today: Psychoanalysis, Science, Religion
Levinas, Emmanuel – Alterity and Transcendence
Lichtheim, George – Lukács
Lichtheim, George – The Concept of Ideology and other essays
Lindbeck, George A. – The Nature of Doctrine – 1984
Locke, John – Political Writings (ed. David Wootton)
Luhmann, Niklas – The Reality of the Mass Media – 1996
Lukacs, Georg – History and Class Consciousness
M.
Macquarrie, John – An Existentialist Theology: Comparison of Heidegger and Bultmann
Macquarrie, John – Mediators Between Human and Divine – 1996 ed.
Taizen Maezumi – Teaching of the Great Mountain
Magee, Bryan – The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
Malevich, Kasimir – The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism
Malinowski, Bronislaw – Magic, Science, and Religion
Malroux, Andre – Anti-Memoirs
Mannheim, Karl – Ideology and Utopia
Marcuse, Herbert – One Dimensional Man
Marcuse, Herbert – Soviet Marxism – 1958 ed.
Maritain, Jacques – Existence and the Existent
Marks, Robert W. – The Meaning of Marcuse – 1970 ed.
Miłosz, Czesław – The Captive Mind
More, Thomas – Utopia
Morgan, George A. – What Nietzsche Means – 1965 ed.
Morinaga, Soko – The Ceasing of Notions (text from the Dunhuang Caves)
Mukarovsky, Jan – Structure, Sign, and Function: Selected Essays
N.
Negri, Antonio – Time for Revolution
Negri, Antonio & Michael Hardt – Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Negri, Antonio – The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
O.
Otto, Rudolf – The Idea of the Holy
P.
Palmer, Richard E. – Hermeneutics
Pauly, Reinhard G. – Music in the Classic Period
Pieper, Josef – Leisure, the Basis of Culture – (introduction by T. S. Eliot)
Pocock, J. G. A. – The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law – (1990 edition)
R.
Ricoeur, Paul – Interpretation Theory – 1976
Richie, Donald – A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics – 2007
Rosenberg, Alexander – Economics – Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns
S.
Said, Edward – Culture and Imperialism
Saussure, Ferdinand de – Course in General Linguistics
Sayama, Mike – Samadhi: Self-Development in Zen, Swordsmanship, and Psychotherapy
Schapiro, Leonard – The Russian Revolutions of 1917 – 1984
Schapiro, Leonard – Rationalism and Nationalism in Russian Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
Schlette, Heinz Robert – Towards a Theology of Religions – Burns & Oates, London – 1966
Schmaus, Warren – Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition – 2004 ed.
Schrag, Calvin O. – The Self After Postmodernity – 1997; Yale Uni. Press
Scruton, Roger – The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Niebelung
Seung Sahn – The Compass of Zen (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
Shariati, Ali – Religion vs. Religion
Simirenko, Alex – Social Thought in the Soviet Union
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell – The Meaning and End of Religion
So Sahn – The Mirror of Zen (ed. Boep Joeng)
Spengler, Oswald – Man and Techinics
Stace, W. T. – The Philosophy of Hegel
Stace, W. T. – Religion and the Modern Mind
Suny, Ronald & Arthur Adams – The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory (3rd ed.)
T.
Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro – In Praise of Shadows
Thayer, William Roscoe – The Life and Times of Cavour – 1911 edition
Thayer, William Roscoe – The Collapse of Superman – 1918 edition
Tucker, Richard C. – The Marx-Engels Reader – 2nd Edition
Tucker, Richard C. – The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
V.
Virilio, Paul – Art and Fear
Vohra, Ranbir – The Chinese Revolution: 1900-1950
W.
Wallerstein, Immanuel – World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
Y.
Yanagi, Soetsu – The Unknown Craftsman
Z.
Zizek, Slavoj – The Sublime Object of Ideology
Zizek, Slavoj – The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
Zizek, Slavoj – The Parallax View
Zizek, Slavoj – Living in the End Times
History, Military, Chess, Biography, and everything else
A.
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh – Periodic Tables: A Cultural history of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc
B.
Bates, Henry Walter – The Naturalist on the River Amazons – (1921 edition)
Beevor, Antony – Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege
Bolgar, R. R. – The Classical Heritage & Its Beneficiaries – (1958 edition)
C.
Carter, Steven D. – Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan (1993)
Chan, Jackie (with Zhu Mo) – Never Grow Up
Chernev, Irving – Logical Chess
Chernev, Irving – Practical Chess Endings
Cherniaev, Alexander & Eduard Prokuronov – The New Old Indian
Cline, Eric H. – 1177B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed
D.
Dempsey, Jack – Championship Fighting
Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs, and Steel
Doak, Kevin Michael – Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity – 1994 ed.
Domingos, Pedro – The Master Algorithm
Dunlop, Richard – Behind Japanese Lines with the OSS in Burma
E.
Easthope, Antony – Poetry as Discourse
F.
Farris, William Wayne – Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500-1300
Ferejohn, John A. & Frances McCall Rosenbluth (eds.) – War and State Building in Medieval Japan – (2010)
Fowler, Edward – The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early 20th Century Japanese Fiction
G.
Gallagher, Joe – Starting Out: The King’s Indian
Giles, Herbert A. – A History of Chinese Literature – (Tuttle; 1973)
Gordon, Andrew (ed.) – Postwar Japan as History
Grann, David – The Lost City of Z
Green, Peter – Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture – (Thames and Hudson, 1989)
Greene, Douglas G. – John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles
Greene, Graham – In Search of a Character
Gross, Josh – Ali vs. Inoki (2016)
Grylls, Bear – Mud, Sweat and Tears: The Autobiography
H.
Hall, John Whitney – Government and Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700: A Study Based on Bizen Province – (Uni. of Michigan; 1999)
Hall, John W. & Marius B. Jansen (eds.) – Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan – (Princeton; 1970)
Hansen, Lars Bo – Foundations of Chess Strategy
Harding, W. P. G. – The Formative Period of the Federal Reserve System (Riverside; 1925)
Hellbeck, Jochen – Stalingrad
Horne, Alistair – The Fall of Paris
I.
J.
Jinichi, Tokeshi – Kendo: Elements, Rules, and Philosophy
Jones, Michael – Leningrad: State of Siege
K.
Kershaw, Alex – Escape From The Deep
Kiernan, Denise – The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of The Women Who Helped Win WWII
Kotov, Alexander – Chess Tactics
Kyle, Chris & William Doyle – American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
L.
Layden, Joe – The Last Great Fight
Levy, Ian Hideo – Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism
Lu, David J. – Japan: A Documentary History – The Dawn of History to the Late Tokugawa Period
Lu, David J. – Japan: A Documentary History – The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present
M.
Macintyre, Ben – Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Marovic, Drazen – Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess
Maruyama, Masao – Studies in The Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan (trans. Mikiso Hane)
Mason, David S. – Revolution and Transition in East-Central Europe – 2nd edition
Mayor, Adrienne – The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates
McCallum, Donald F. – The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan
McManus, John C. – The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
McNelly, Theodore – Politics and Government in Japan – 2nd Edition
Miyoshi, Masao – Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel – Univ. of Michigan
Moody, Glyn – Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
N.
Nimzowitsch, Aron – My System & Chess Praxis
O.
Oakeshott, R. Ewart – The Archaeology of Weapons
Ooka, Makoto – The Colors of Poetry
Ooms, Herman – Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800
Ooms, Herman – Tokugawa Ideology, Early Constructs 1570-1680
Osborne, Milton – River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73
Owens, Mark (Matt Bissonnette) – No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Bin Laden
P.
Pachman, Ludèk – Modern Chess Strategy
Pehl, Mary Jo – Employee of the Month and other Big Deals
R.
Raymond, Eric S. – The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Reid, Anna – Leningrad
Roiz, Michael – The Nimzo-Indian Defence
Rosenfeld, Allen S. – Charley Burley: The Life and Hard Times of an Uncrowned Champion
S.
Saidy, Anthony – The Battle of Chess Ideas
Salisbury, Harrison – The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (2003 ed.)
Scheerer, Christoph – The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (2011 ed.)
Schenk, George – Moss Gardening (8th printing/2002)
Scruton, Roger – The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung
Shaw, John – Starting Out: The Queen’s Gambit (Everyman Chess)
Shelmerdine, Cynthia W. (ed.) – The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age
Shereshevsky, Mikhail – Endgame Strategy
Smirin, Ilya – King’s Indian Warfare!
Snyder, Timothy – The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
Spoto, Donald – Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich
Soltis, Andrew – Chess to Enjoy
Soltis, Andrew – Pawn Structure Chess
Strauss, Barry – The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece – and Western Civilization
T.
Talty, Stephan – Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy Seal History
Toby, Ronald P. – State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan – Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt – The Mushroom at the End of the World – (2015)
W.
Wagner, Richard – My Life – (1936 edition)
Webster, Donovan – The Burma Road
Y.
Yrjölä, Jouni & Jussi Tella – The Queen’s Indian
Z.
Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene – The Art of Chess Combination
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