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The first and only full-length biography of one of the most charismatic spiritual innovators of the twentieth century.
Through his widely popular books and lectures, Alan Watts (1915-1973) did more to introduce Eastern philosophy and religion to Western minds than any figure before or since. Watts touched the lives of many. He was a renegade Zen teacher, an Anglican priest, a lecturer, an academic, an entertainer, a leader of the San Francisco renaissance,...
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A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Evelyn Fox Keller trained as a theoretical physicist at a time when women didn't "do physics." Unable to find a supportive advisor, she moved into the new field of molecular biology just getting off the ground. After receiving her doctorate, she returned to physics but then took another swerve, joining a small interdisciplinary effort to develop mathematical models of biological systems. This work led to her appointment to a special position as Professor...
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The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion-on modernism itself. Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling in the extraordinary James family, William emerges here as an immensely complex and curious man. William James, ten years in the making, draws on a vast number of unpublished...
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Strand Home Video
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[c1999]
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This 1998 documentary looks at the life and work of the controversial Russian-born author, Ayn Rand. A sense of life is a flux of events, ideas, emotions and accomplishments - all combining to create a portrait of one woman's genius and point of view.
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Mystic Fire Video
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c2002
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William Segal -- a philosopher, publisher, writer and painter -- searched relentlessly and compassionately for meaning in the chaotic and distracted time we call the 20th century. Segal helped bring Eastern and Western traditions together, always stressing what connected humanity rather than what differentiated it. In the last decade of his life, Segal befriended the documentary film maker Ken Burns, and the two men collaborated on an interior trilogy....
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Oxford University Press
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2009
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Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.
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