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1	How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It more books like this by Arthur Herman add to wishlist This study of Scotland's impact on civilization chronicles the transformation of Scotland after British rule, the achievements of great Scots such as Adam Smith, David Hume, and others, and the ideas of liberty that shaped the Enlightenment and the modern world. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $8.48! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Becoming Enlightened more books like this by Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (Editor) add to wishlist Drawing from traditional Buddhist meditative practices, His Holiness the Dalai Lama presents step-by-step contemplative exercises designed to expand the reader's capacity for spiritual growth, along with clear milestones to mark the reader's progress. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
3	The Enlightenment more books like this by Dorinda Outram add to wishlist Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and has continued unabated until our own times. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, on the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. Did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
4	After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path more books like this by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. add to wishlist Kornfield, a psychologist and Buddhist monk, offers this inspirational reminder for those on the path to Enlightenment. AFTER THE ECSTASY, THE LAUNDRY speaks to the importance of the daily, the simple, the quotidian in the search for higher consciousness, reminding us that what we're after is all around us. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet more books like this by Trinh Xuan Thuan, Matthieu Ricard add to wishlist A Buddhist with a scientific background and a scientist with a Buddhist background compare notes on the intersection of the disparate worldviews, highlighting remarkable similarities between the two. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $8.95! \| first editions
6	The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents more books like this by Margaret C Jacob add to wishlist The movement called the Enlightenment swept through 18th-century Europe, forever changing the political, religious, and educational landscape. Margaret Jacob has assembled selections by important figures of the period, including Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. She covers the movement's lengthy evolution ... see all copies from $5.04! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
7	How to See Yourself as You Really Are more books like this by Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (Read by) add to wishlist In a practical, uplifting, and deeply relevant new work, His Holiness the Dalai Lama guides readers along the path to self-knowledge using the traditional Buddhist steps of meditative reflection. see all copies from $2.65! new only from $5.88! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The philosophy of the enlightenment more books like this by Ernst Cassirer add to wishlist In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ideas ... see all copies from $3.68! new only from $24.78! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Portable Enlightenment Reader more books like this by Issac Kramnick, Various, Isaac Kramnick (Editor) add to wishlist The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
10	Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment more books like this by Thaddeus Golas add to wishlist Thaddeus Golas is a lazy man. Laziness keeps him from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking and other evidences of virtue. He found a way to enlighten himself - and you - with two sentences. The first is We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The second? The universe is ... see all copies from $3.87! new only from $37.41! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Nowadays, the Enlightenment is often judged harshly for its simplistic optimism. Peter Gay revisits the sources to show that the Enlightenment's increasing scientific method and belief in reason marked the beginning of the modern age. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $12.52! \| SVS
12 view cover	The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment more books like this by Adyashanti add to wishlist More and more people today have had a glimpse of genuine spiritual awakening, only to see it slip away after a few hours or days. Adyashanti calls this the 'I got it/I lost it' phenomenon, and it perplexes many of his students. For those caught between what he calls 'non-abiding' awakening and the ultimate state of 'abiding' enlightenment, ... see all copies from $18.07! new only from $18.07! \| SVS
13 view cover	A Search for God, Book II more books like this by Edgar Cayce, Association for Research & Enlightenment (Editor) add to wishlist In 1931, Edgar Cayce agreed to help a group of people grow spiritually and become more psychic with one condition: They would have to "live" the precepts. It took the group eleven years to apply and compile the twenty-four lessons which became A Search for God, Books I and II. This material has helped individuals and groups around the world to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist In the early eighteenth century, Edinburghwas a filthy backwater synonymous with poverty and disease, and recently famous for religious persecution. When this small walled-off city surrendered to a handful of Highlanders in 1745, things had never looked bleaker. Yet by century's end, the ancient Scottish capital had become the marvel of modern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions
15	The Enlightenment: An Interpretation more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist In his reinterpretation of The Enlightenment, the author describes its social history and the environment from which philosophers drew their ideas. see all copies from $2.50! first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution more books like this by Roger Chartier, Steven L Kaplan (Editor), Keith M Baker (Editor) add to wishlist Historian Roger Chartier, part of a school now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, analyzes the causes of the French Revolution not simply by investigating its "cultural origins", but by pinpointing the conditions that "made it possible because conceivable". Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the ... see all copies from $5.20! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe more books like this by James Van Horn Melton, T C W Blanning (Editor), William Beik (Editor) add to wishlist James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this is the first book-length, critical reassessment of what Habermas termed the 'bourgeois public sphere'. During the Enlightenment the Public ... see all copies from $27.81! new only from $27.81! \| SVS
18 view cover	A Search for God more books like this by Edgar Cayce add to wishlist In 1931, Edgar Cayce agreed to help a group of people grow spiritually and become more psychic with one condition: They would have to "live" the precepts. It took the group eleven years to apply and compile the twenty-four lessons which became A Search for God, Books I and II. This material has helped individuals and groups around the world to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.66! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Military Experience in the Age of Reason more books like this by Christopher Duffy add to wishlist War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions ... see all copies from $18.46! new only from $75.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning more books like this by Heinrich Dumoulin add to wishlist According to the Zen tradition, enlightenment is a cosmic experience of universal unity. Here, Heinrich Dumoulin traces the development of Zen and the concept of enlightenment from its origins in India through its development in China to its fruition in Japan. Delineating the Buddhist origins, as well as the Taoist and yogic influences, he traces ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.58! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Robert Darnton add to wishlist Historian Darnton here collects his articles on the oddities, "minor" events, everyday life, and flow of ideas during the Enlightenment. Darnton's selection and scholarship reveal the popular, street-level origins of what has too-often been seen only as an exchange of elevated ideas. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
22	Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment more books like this by Garry Wills add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! new only from $62.94! \| first editions
23 view cover	Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment more books like this by Vicki MacKenzie add to wishlist Diane Perry led an average childhood in London's East End until, in her teens, in the 1950s, she converted to Buddhism. Journalist Vicki Mackenzie explores Perry's quest for spiritual enlightenment in a Buddhist monastery in India and the 12 years she spent in a remote cave, 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.23! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Enlightenment in America more books like this by Henry F. May add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! new only from $23.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader more books like this by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Editor) add to wishlist This book gathers into one volume the most provocative philosophical writing on race produced by the luminaries of the European Enlightenment. There is no anthology that has so focused itself on exploring through primary texts the alliance between philosophy, anthropology and race. It is an attempt to show, through primary texts on matters of race ... see all copies from $12.98! new only from $39.83! \| first editions \| SVS

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