A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
By: Nikhil Krishnan
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy…
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1. Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.22
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn … read more
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"Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they sa…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"All the drinking reinforced my unease, and since nothing of what I did gave me anything back, I became more and more worn down, it was as though I was being drained, I became emptier and emptier, and…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
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2. The Sea, the Sea
By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie
3.66
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more
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3. La sociedad de la transparencia
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.92
Format: 290 pages,
Ningun otro lema domina hoy el discurso publico tanto como la transparencia. Segun Han, quien la re… read more
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4. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
By: Isaiah Berlin
3.50
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental disti… read more
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5. Under the Net
By: Iris Murdoch
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more
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6. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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7. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
By: Steven Pinker
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupt… read more
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9. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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10. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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11. Van Gogh: The Life
By: Steven Naifeh
4.18
Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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13. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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14. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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15. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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16. Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
By: Kieran Setiya
3.58
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022" Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challeng… read more
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17. A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
By: Nikhil Krishnan
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy… read more
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18. The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
By: David Edmonds
4.07
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordin… read more
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19. God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music
By: Leah Payne
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Traces Contemporary Christian Music's role in creating a theological and political vision for publi… read more
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20. Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
By: Ashley Mears
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of model… read more
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21. Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books)
By: Benjamin Storey
3.83
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of u… read more
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"Learning to perceive the height of our existence as well as its breadth is what can transform our hectic dabbling into work with steady purpose."-Benjamin Storey, Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books)
