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Titles you can find in the Cretan (& Greek) "Philosophy" section include:
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Diegenes the Cynic: The War against the world
Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context
Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy
Plato's The Republic
Meet The Philosophers Of Ancient Greece
From Myth to Reason?: Studies in the Development of Greek Thought
Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece
Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
and many more...

Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle - by Reginald E. Allen (paperback, 446 pages, June 1992)

Book Description
Widely praised for its accessibility and its concentration on the metaphysical issues that are most central to the history of Greek philosophy, Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle offers a valuable introduction to the works of the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.

For the Third Edition, Professor Allen has provided new translations of Socrates' speech in the Symposium and of the first five chapters of Aristotle's Categories, as well as new selections bearing on Aristotle's Theory of Infinity, Continuity, and Discreteness. The book also contains a general introduction which sets forth Professor Allen's distinctive and now widely accepted interpretation of the development of Greek philosophy and science, along with selective bibliography, and lists of suggested readings.

Review from Amazon.com:

For a teacher willing to present his or her own analysis of the period, but looking for an inexpensive source of well-translated key texts from the pre-Socratics to Aristotle, this collection is unbeatable. At 450 pages it contains more than enough core reading for a one-term course. Moreover, it includes the 'unmoved mover' argument from the 'Phaedrus', which its competitors, even at twice the length and thrice the price do not.

Kazantzakis and God (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought) - by D. Dombrowski (paperback, 193 pages, November 1997)

Book description
Examines the concept of God which emerges from the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (the great Cretan author) and argues that he was a process theist.

"Dombrowski ranges widely over Kazantzakis's works in various genres...and therefore has a complete, broad picture....Kazantzakis, well ahead of many, was a 'process theologian,' combining a view of God with a Darwinian assurance that everything (even God) evolves. This work is the first book-length study of this aspect of Kazantzakis." -- Peter Bien, Dartmouth College

"Daniel Dombrowski has written a refreshing addition to the growing list of texts for...[people] desiring an exposure to Kazantzakis's maverick and controversial religious beliefs. The author's fascinating study of Nikos Kazantzakis's narrativised Bergsonian transformism is invaluable for the provocative way it helps melt the apparent glacial divide between Christian theology and modern literary fiction...This book is informative and stimulating, and for even the reader acquainted with Kazantzakis he opens up new layers of meaning, without falling into the tempting trap of finding more than is there." -- Darren J. N. Middleton, Rhodes College