books by Open Court Publishing Company     books:     Open Court Publish...      Francis Bacon: Novum Organum - With Other Parts of The Great Instauration (Volume 3, Paul Carus Student ... Francis Bacon Open Court Publishing Company, 1994 A gem! Though somewhat obscure, this book should be more widely known and read. Very enlightening and well ahead of it's time. Terrific, readable translation. You'll never look at the world again in the same way!             Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Open Court Publishing Company, 1988 This is the motherload! This, and other of Leibniz's writings are, ..... I don't know. Profound? That is an understatement! Paradigm shifting? At least a few? These are some of the most powerful and poignant thoughts put into writing. This is the man who discovered the calculus with meaning ...             Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China A. C., Graham Open Court Publishing Company, 1989 A classic study A.C. Graham's Disputers of the Tao became an instant classic when it was published in 1989. Graham was the foremost scholar in his field in his day, and this book is still the standard study of early Chinese philosophy. (My understanding was that this title is out ...             Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy (Reality of the Psyche Series) Edward F. Edinger Open Court Publishing Company, 1991 A great introduction to a fascinating subject If I had my time over again I would read these three books on alchemy in the following order: All of them are excellent in their own sphere to introduce a complex process. (1) The Forge and the Crucible - Eliade This is an excellent prehistory of alchemy showing the ...             Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Implications of Expertise Carl Bereiter, Marlene Scardamalia Open Court Publishing Company, 1993 The best popular (but science based) book on expertism An excellent book by two excellent expert & learning researchers on nature and implications of expertise in human behaviour. Has various implications in the fields of schooling, life-long learning, apprenticeship and just plain old teaching. Does not contain ...             How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization Open Court Publishing Company, 2008 Summary Without Loss of Depth How do you summarize a summary of 2500 years of thought? Great! Mortimer Adler was one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century, primarily because of the literally ecyclopaedic nature of his knowledge. I say literally encyclopaedic because he edited the ...             The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism David D. Friedman Open Court Publishing Company, 1989 A true classic Whether you agree or not with David Friedman, you will learn a lot from reading this book. David doesn't duck any of the hard questions, and even on the most difficult issues, such as eliminating government defense, he will make you think. In the end, even those who ...             Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul (Reality of the Psyche Series) Marie-Louise von Franz Open Court Publishing Company, 1987 The History Of Science And Religion This is one of the few books Marie-Louise von Franz actually wrote (as opposed to being a transcription of seminars she gave at the Jung Institute in Zurich). Thus, in many ways, it is quite dense, and a difficult read. But, I believe this to be one of her finest ...             The Jesus Legend G. A. Wells Open Court Publishing Company, 1996 Well-researched, well-written, fair, repetitious Once you have read one of Professor Well's books you have read them all. They are like a Symphony in which every movement is a variation of the same theme. That being said, each is a good reads. The author knows the details of the Gospels better than 99% of most ...             Good Mood Julian L. Simon Open Court Publishing Company, 1993 Comprehensive The premise of Simon's theory is that depression is due to our tendency to compare ourselves to others, how we used to be, what we hope to be, etc. It sounds simplistic, but the book is actually very comprehensive. Rather than making generalizations about all ...             The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary Thomas Stephen Szasz Open Court Publishing Company, 1990 The entire mental health profession is a load of crap! Szasz is a psychiatrist who realized that the entire mental health profession is a load of crap - and so are politics, religion, and American sexual morality. In "The Untamed Tongue," Szasz dissects the language of almost every single field of human "knowledge," ...             On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (The Open Court Classics Open Coutn Library of ... Arthur Schopenhauer Open Court Publishing Company, 2003 Minor Problem This amazing treatise on human knowledge has one little fault. The editors at Open Court left out eleven words in the Tranlator's Introduction. This omission should gratify present-day philosophers in that it turns Schopenhauer's words into modern-sounding nonsense. I ...             Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend Jeffrey S. Victor Open Court Publishing Company, 1993 A rational explanation Jeffery Victor methodically dissects the overblown hysteria-ridden Satanic panic with clear writing, documented facts, and the right touch of humor. A must-read for anyone who's ever played D&D and been accused of being a Satanist, or for people who believe in SRA.             Jungian Analysis (The Reality of the Psyche Series) Open Court Publishing Company, 1995 A wonderful "Handbook". Jungian Analysis (The Reality of the Psyche Series) I, as a clinical psychologist and as a Trainee Junguian Analist, in the Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Junguian Institut, found in this book a precious "handbook" if this existed in psychological treatment. This book ...             Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Open Court Publishing Company, 1996 How we got today's welfare-warfare state These days many of us wonder how it happened that the great ideals of the American Revolution, liberty and self-reliance, were overthrown and replaced by today's gigantic and ravenous welfare-warfare state. It is easy to blame Roosevelt and the New Deal, but many of ...          products you might be interested in search for books contemporary, implications, instauration, philosophical, psychotherapy, re-collection      toavi.com    web we recommend Summary Without Loss of Depth randomly chosen VHS: Mozart: Romantic Prague