The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
By: Peter Burke
3.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leona…
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1. Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
By: Daniel L. Everett
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett w… read more
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2. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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3. Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
By: Susan Neiman
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Our culture is obsessed with youth-and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining respon… read more
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4. How to Read and Why
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question wit… read more
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5. Beauty
By: Roger Scruton
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane," writes Roger Scruton. "It can be exhilarati… read more
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6. The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
By: Wade Davis
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive… read more
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7. Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
By: Alan Taylor
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as n… read more
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8. Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , None
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Taming the Tiger Withinis a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmati… read more
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9. The River of Consciousness
By: Oliver Sacks
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, andMusicophilia, a collection of essays tha… read more
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10. Plato: A Very Short Introduction
By: Julia Annas
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
This lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing… read more
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11. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
By: Svetlana Alexievich
4.49
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more
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"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
12. Dreamland: An Autobiography
By: Bob Lazar
3.88
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Bob Lazar is the reason Area 51 became infamous in the 1980s and his recent appearance on Joe Rogan… read more
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"The late nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, one of the best known and most respected UFO investigators, became the highest profile Lazar debunker, and although he often told his audiences that he wa…"-Bob Lazar, Dreamland: An Autobiography
13. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
By: Erik J. Larson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is ju… read more
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"This cuts the myth at an awkward angle: it is because the [artificial intelligence] systems are idiots, but still find their way into business, consumer, and government application, that human-value …"-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
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14. MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them
By: Nouriel Roubini
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Read and pay attention" (Martin Wolf, the Financial Times ): the bestselling author of Crisis Econ… read more
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15. The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
By: Peter Burke
3.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leona… read more
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16. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
17. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defie… read more
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"Huge amounts of blood were shed to make and maintain the Soviet Union. Some of it was the blood of idealists, some of thugs and careerists, but most of it was the blood of ordinary people whose main …"-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
"The Marxist prediction that capitalism would ultimately collapse and be replaced by socialism (Khrushchev’s tactless ‘We will bury you!’) had been a comfort to Soviet Communists as they struggled aga…"-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
18. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
By: Erik Davis
4.22
Format: 545 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Te… read more
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"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo cham…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"By refusing randomness and unpredictability, conspiracy theories and paranoid reality tunnels reify the hubris of systematic rationality as such. “Maybe all systems—that is, any theoretical, verbal, …"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
"The technological audacity of the Apollo program, with it's largely symbolic payload, was also sinking into the trivialisation that Guy Debord had identified the decade before as the underside of med…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
19. Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
By: António Damásio
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investig… read more
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"In no way can interoception be regarded as a plain perceptual representation of the body inside the nervous system. There is, rather, an extensive commingling of signals. By now we should be clear ab…"-António Damásio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
20. Science and Spiritual Practices: Reconnecting through direct experience
By: Rupert Sheldrake
3.76
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
In this pioneering book Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which … read more
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21. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
By: Luis Elizondo
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more
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