Spring Hardcovers: Philosophy

Edited by Dick Donahue and Juan Martinez Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek and Julie Stevenson -- Publishers Weekly, 1/21/2008

Brandeis Univ. Press

(dist. by UPNE)

Memoirs (Apr., $35) by Hans Jonas traces the life of the 20th-century thinker best known for The Imperative of Responsibility and for his writings on gnosticism.

State Univ. of New York Press

Stairway to Nirvana: A Study of the Samghas Based on the Works of Tsong Kha Pa (Mar., $75) by James B. Apple discusses the Tibetan Buddhist text.

Univ. of Wisconsin Press

Human Goodness (Apr., $24.95) by Yi-Fu Tuan unravels the complex nature of goodness through the lives of such exemplary figures as Confucius and Simone Weil.

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