Stephen Mitchell: 59 books
by Stephen Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Enhanced by Stephen Mitchell’s illuminating commentary, the next volume of the classic manual on the art of living
The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal...
Bhagavad Gita
A New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus,...
Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness
A Biblical Tale Retold
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
**“**A unique and special kind of masterpiece.” —John Banville
Stephen Mitchell’s gift is to breathe new life into ancient classics. In Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness, he offers us his riveting novelistic version of the Biblical tale in which Jacob’s favorite son is sold into slavery...
Tao Te Ching
A New English Version
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching llods at the basic predicatment of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit....
Permanent Moments
A Fictional Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
When clearing out his mothers fl at Stephen discovers a tin of old photographs under her bed. Each image evokes a memory of childhood and we get to meet the people who inhabit those memories wayward friends and sensible friends, strict teachers and hopeless teachers, ugly girls and gorgeous girls,...
Gilgamesh
A New English Version
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although previously there have been competent scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchell's lithe, muscular...
A Mind at Home with Itself
How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Internationally acclaimed, bestelling author Byron Katie’s most anticipated work since Loving What Is
We live in difficult times, leaving far too many of us suffering from anxiety and depression, fear and anger. In her new and most anticipated work since Loving What Is, beloved spiritual...
Genesis
A New Translation of the Classic Bible Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
In this highly acclaimed translation, Stephen Mitchell conveys in English the simplicity, dignity and powerful earthiness of the original Hebrew. More than just interpreting it, he also separates stories that were combined by scribes centuries after they were written, explaining their sources and...
A Thousand Names for Joy
Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy, she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry.Stephen...
by Stephen Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
A revised edition of the first book of poems by Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator of Rilke's poetry, The Book of Job, and the Tao Te Ching. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Gospel According to Jesus
New Translation and Guide to His Essenti
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A dazzling presentation of the life and teachings of Jesus by the eminent scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell.
by Stephen Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight.
Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli...
Past Perfect
Freedom from Perfection in Life and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
We seem to be obsessed with perfection. It's everywhere, permeating our conversations, our language, our advertising, our films and our religion. It's not only widespread across our culture; it has roots deep in the beginning of our civilization. For the sake of our well-being and our faith we need...
Lieben was ist
Wie vier Fragen Ihr Leben verändern können
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Jahrelang litt Byron Katie unter Depressionen, hatte massive Essstörungen, Zornausbrüche und war Alkoholikerin. Mit 44 Jahren schien ihr Leben ziemlich ausweglos. Ein Erleuchtungserlebnis änderte ihr Leben dramatisch. In der Folge entwickelte sie ein ebenso einfaches wie wirkungsvolles Selbsterkenntnis-System....