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 toNirvana:A Study of theSamghasBased 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.
