Decadence: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: David Weir
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780190610227. The history of decadent culture runs from ancient…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- art
- history
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- sociology
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Moonglow
By: Michael Chabon
3.80
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon… read more
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- audiobook
"...When were they happy?" "In the cracks?" I said. "In the cracks."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
3. Monsieur De Phocas
By: Jean Lorrain
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Monsieur de Phocas (1901) has been ranked with Huysmans' À Rebours (1884) as the summation of the F… read more
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- literature
"Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others."-Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
"To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living... and only dreams can do that for me."-Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
"The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead."-Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
"And it seemed that my flesh crawled with the gentleness of those glaucous things evoked by the verse. It was as if fingertips, like cut emeralds or fresh olives, were stroking the palm of my hand."-Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
4. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
By: Thomas Cathcart , Daniel Klein
3.76
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30."-Thomas Cathcart, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
"Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking the priests, pu…"-Thomas Cathcart, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
5. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
By: Samuel P. Huntington
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
6. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
7. The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin (Maigret #10)
By: Georges Simenon , Siân Reynolds
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in L… read more
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- audiobook
8. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
9. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
By: Ted Orland , David Bayles
3.87
Format: 237 pages,
"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made… read more
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- art
- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
12. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
13. How to Write a Thesis
By: Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel "The Name of the Rose," he was one of Ital… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
14. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canonis more than a required reading list-it is a vision… read more
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15. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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16. The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
By: David J. Linden
4.33
Format: 228 pages,
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17. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
18. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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19. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
20. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
By: Dante Alighieri , Dorothy L. Sayers , Barbara Reynolds
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rimastanza's and brings his poetry v… read more
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21. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
22. Black Sheep
By: Georgette Heyer
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
With her high-spirited intelligence and good looks, Abigail Wendover was a most sought-after young … read more
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23. Who Rules the World?
By: Noam Chomsky
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the… read more
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24. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of How to Liveand How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient … read more
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25. Populism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Cas Mudde , None
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, l… read more
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26. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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- art
- history
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- nonfiction
- literary criticism
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
27. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
28. Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
By: Scott Barry Kaufman
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full … read more
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29. Decadence: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: David Weir
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780190610227. The history of decadent culture runs from ancient… read more
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- nonfiction
- criticism
- sociology
- literary criticism
30. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
By: C.A. Fletcher
4.15
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've n… read more
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"I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think"-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
"No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective."-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
"Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn’t know about."-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
"I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me."-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
31. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
By: Donald J. Robertson
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roma… read more
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