Philosophy for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know
By: Alain Stephen
3.50
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your Aristotelianism or Asceticism from your Egalitarianism? No? Well this book will gi…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The recent rise of so-called 'populism' is seen by some to represent a backlash against globalization and liberal capitalism. It actually presents some interesting philosophical questions as it seems to derive its power from emotive anger, soundbites and slogans that often don't stand up to scrutiny; opinions presented as fact -- a form of extreme subjectivism."-Alain Stephen, Philosophy for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know
"The recent rise of so-called 'populism' is seen by some to represent a backlash against globalization and liberal capitalism. It actually presents some interesting philosophical questions as it seems to derive its power from emotive anger, soundbites and slogans that often don't stand up to scrutiny; opinions presented as fact -- a form of extreme subjectivism."-Alain Stephen, Philosophy for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know
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1. Lullabies for Little Criminals
By: Heather O'Neill
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more
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"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
2. This Book Is Gay
By: None , Juno Dawson
3.77
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."-None, This Book Is Gay
"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"-None, This Book Is Gay
3. Charlotte
By: David Foenkinos
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte à vingt-six ans alors qu'elle é… read more
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"La dicha se convierte en una isla en el pasado, inaccesible."-David Foenkinos, Charlotte
"She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world."-David Foenkinos, Charlotte
"Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion."-David Foenkinos, Charlotte
4. Walking the Americas
By: Levison Wood
4.14
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Walking the Americas chronicles Levison Wood's 1,800 mile trek along the spine of the Americas, thr… read more
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- nonfiction
5. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
6. I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School
By: Caroline Taggart
3.41
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equa… read more
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- self help
7. Blood Brothers
By: Willy Russell
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot af… read more
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8. Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue … read more
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9. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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10. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
11. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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12. Град обреченный
By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Аркадий Стругацкий , Борис Стругацкий
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, … read more
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- philosophy
13. Le Colonel Chabert
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.59
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more
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"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert
14. From the Earth to the Moon
By: Jules Verne
3.76
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more
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"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
15. No Longer Human
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
16. Euthyphro
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more
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17. 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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18. Brief Answers to the Big Questions
By: Stephen Hawking
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"I use the word “God"-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
"This “Hawking temperature"-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
19. The Haar
By: David Sodergren
4.17
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more
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20. All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
By: Erik J. Brown
4.23
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance … read more
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"You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?"-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"When he kisses me, my chest feels lighter again, like he's taking on some of my sorrow but passing on some of his love."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"We're going to be okay,' I repeated to him. If things get hard again, I'll carry him. And he'll carry me. And we'll be okay."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
21. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
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22. The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
By: Héctor García
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japane… read more
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- nonfiction
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"You are a miracle, and there has never been-- nor will there ever be--anyone like you - Pau (Pablo) Casals"-Héctor García, The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
23. The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
By: Luca Crippa
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everythi… read more
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24. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
By: Elif Shafak
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We fee… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti život."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Do not be afraid of complexity. Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Uskraćivanjem spremnosti da saslušamo druge osiguravamo da se i oni osjećaju kao da ih nitko ne čuje. I krug se nastavlja, i sa svakim okretajem sve se više pogoršava."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Onog trenutka kad prestanemo slušati mišljenja koja se razlikuju od naših, prestajemo i učiti. Jer istina je da od jednakog i jednoličnog ne učimo baš mnogo. Obično učimo iz razlika."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
25. Philosophy for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know
By: Alain Stephen
3.50
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your Aristotelianism or Asceticism from your Egalitarianism? No? Well this book will gi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
"The recent rise of so-called 'populism' is seen by some to represent a backlash against globalization and liberal capitalism. It actually presents some interesting philosophical questions as it seems…"-Alain Stephen, Philosophy for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know
26. Kaizen: The Japanese Method for Transforming Habits, One Small Step at a Time
By: Sarah Harvey
3.56
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE MAGIC OF KAIZEN - THE JAPANESE METHOD OF TAKING SMALL STEPS TO ACCOMPLISH HUGE GOALS - IS NOW H… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
27. The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
By: Ant Middleton
4.14
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN I… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
28. The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!
By: Jade Bowler
4.15
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
We've all been there: a new school year starts and there's 8 months till your exams - that's plenty… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"This book recognises you as a complex human. This book recognises that the grade you get will not show every- thing behind the scenes, and that a pass grade for one person will merit the same congrat…"-Jade Bowler, The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!
29. A Thinking Person’s Guide to Islam
By: Ghazi bin Muhammad
4.43
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The world is at a crossroads today. A tiny minority of Muslims seems to be bent on hijacking the re… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Psychology for Busy People: Everything You Really Should Know
By: Joel Levy
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Explore the fascinating world of the human psyche with this accessible and concise guide to the fun… read more
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31. The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Klaus Dodds
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention. I… read more
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