The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World
By: Ulrich Beck
3.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is met…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts
By: Zygmunt Bauman
4.10
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
3. Death with Interruptions
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
4.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more
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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
4. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more
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- philosophy
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- sociology
5. Crimen y castigo
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Esta novela, una de las mas grandes e imperecederas de la literatura universal, contiene dos de los… read more
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- philosophy
6. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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7. The Art of Life
By: Zygmunt Bauman
4.20
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
This new book by Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing … read more
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8. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
9. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
10. The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life
By: John P. Strelecky
3.55
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a m… read more
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- philosophy
"Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt."-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life
"Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?"-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life
"As I was floating on the surface, I realized something: When the turtle was swimming, it linked its movements to the movements of the water. When a wave was coming at him, he would float, and paddle …"-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life
11. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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- climate change
- politics
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
12. Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.11
Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition
Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Wir sind benommen vom Kommunikations- und Informa… read more
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- society
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13. The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World
By: Ulrich Beck
3.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is met… read more
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