Theories of Primitive Religion
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
3.68
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this book E. E. Evans-Pritchard examines the various theories which have been put forth by anthr…
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1. Quo Vadis
By: Henryk Sienkiewicz , W.S. Kuniczak
4.01
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome--from the Forum to the Coliseum, fr… read more
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"If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?"-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
"-Моето щастие мина, и радостта ми отмина, но аз не съм зла."-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
"Светът е измамен, а животът е илюзия. Трябва да имаш достатъчно ум за да различиш приятните от лошите илюзии."-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
"Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure. And death itself, which for you is the end of life, is for us merely its beginning,—t…"-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
2. I and Thou
By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- psychology
"All real living is meeting."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
3. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
4. The Golden Bough
By: James George Frazer
4.03
Format: 880 pages, Paperback
A world classic. The Golden Bough" describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex pract… read more
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- history
- religion
- nonfiction
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- anthropology
"God may pardon sin, but Nature cannot."-James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
"Man sollte auch hinter den Ofen gehen und sich den Zahn nach rückwärts über den Kopf werfen mit den Worten: „Maus, gib mir deinen eisernen Zahn. Ich werde dir meinen Knochenzahn geben.“ Danach bleibe…"-James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
"Das Stuhlbein, welches an Stelle des Tierbeines behandelt wird, gehört in keiner Weise zu dem Tiere, und das Verbinden dieses Gegenstandes ist nichts weiter als eine Nachahmung der Behandlung, welche…"-James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
"Bei den Südslaven gräbt ein Mädchen die Erde von den Fußtapfen ihres Geliebten aus und tut sie in einen Blumentopf. Dann pflanzt sie eine Ringelblume, eine Pflanze, die als unverwelklich gilt, hinein…"-James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
5. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society
By: Victor Turner
3.94
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate t… read more
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- social science
- psychology
- religion
- nonfiction
- anthropology
6. Precious Bane
By: Mary Webb
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A compelling story of passion, with an enduring air of enchantment throughout, Precious Bane is a n… read more
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"What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Perché io credo che l'anima agisca sul corpo, che lo vivifichi col suo soffio e lo ricopra di un velo che lo fa sembrare più bello di quanto non sia."-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"There are misfortunes that make you spring up and rush to save yourself, but, there are others that are too bad for this, for they leave nought to do. Then a stillness falls on the soul, like the sti…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
"Not only had he looked at me, but he had looked with favour and longing, and though I knew it was only because the truth was hidden from him, yet I was glad of what I had, as a winter bird is, that w…"-Mary Webb, Precious Bane
7. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- psychology
8. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
By: Carol Cosman , Émile Durkheim , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life(1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discoverin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
- anthropology
9. Mitos Peribumi Malas
By: Syed Hussein Alatas
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Citra tentang kemalasan golongan peribumi yang digembar-gemburkan oleh para penjajah tidak berasas,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
- anthropology
10. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
11. Beneath the Wheel
By: Hermann Hesse , None
4.47
Format: 310 pages,
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheelor The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respec… read more
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12. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects Of Ndembu Ritual
By: Victor Turner
4.06
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Collection of 10 articles previously published on various aspects of ritual symbolism among the Nde… read more
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- social science
- religion
- nonfiction
- anthropology
13. All My Puny Sorrows
By: Miriam Toews
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poigna… read more
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14. To Live
By: Michael Berry , Yu Hua
4.34
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese … read more
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"It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life."-Michael Berry, To Live
15. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more
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16. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
By: Nigel Barley
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
When British anthropologist Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, … read more
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17. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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18. The Consolations of Philosophy
By: Alain de Botton
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophytakes the discipline of logic and the mind back to … read more
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19. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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20. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
21. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- history
- sociology
- anthropology
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
22. No siento nada
By: Liv Strömquist
4.22
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Una radiografía del amor en la era del narcicismo extremo, el nuevo ensayo de la historietista más … read more
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- nonfiction
23. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
24. 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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- nonfiction
- sociology
25. Lectura fácil
By: Cristina Morales
4.06
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Adminis… read more
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"Igual que hemos subvertido el hecho de que siempre limpiaran o cocinaran las tías, debemos subvertir el hecho de que siempre escriba el escritor."-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
"al estirarle un brazo, hice crujir yo las costuras de la camisa de Ibrahim, y va el tío y me dice que perdón. ¿Perdón por qué? ¿Por ir vestido? Será que se están pidiendo perdón a ellos mismos por at…"-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
"Rather than yielding to power in despondence and defeat, we can radicalise against it. We can become so thoroughly repellent that they wouldn’t dare tell us to overcome our adversity, so repellent th…"-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
"La profesora repitió la disimulada orden. Era disimulada por dos motivos: primero, porque no dijo "Quitaos los calcetines" sino "Nos quitamos los calcetines", es decir, que no dio la orden sino que e…"-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
26. Ansia
By: Henar Álvarez
3.59
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
Una novela adictiva, desafiante y ardiente sobre el deseo y las relaciones de poder Natalia es u… read more
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27. The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences)
By: Jack Goody
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much on … read more
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- history
- sociology
- anthropology
28. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
By: Madelaine Böhme
4.16
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbrea… read more
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- history
- anthropology
29. Dysphoria Mundi
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
« Puisque mon désir de vivre en dehors des prescriptions normatives de la société binaire hétéro-pa… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
"Esas cajas que contienen mi biblioteca constituyen mi biografía. Hay muchas maneras de narrar una vida. Es posible decir, como suele hacerse, la fecha de nacimiento, la nacionalidad, el estado civil,…"-Paul B. Preciado, Dysphoria Mundi
30. Theories of Primitive Religion
By: E.E. Evans-Pritchard
3.68
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this book E. E. Evans-Pritchard examines the various theories which have been put forth by anthr… read more
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- spirituality
- sociology
- anthropology
31. El hombre mojado no teme la lluvia: Voces de Oriente Medio
By: Olga Rodríguez
4.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
En una de sus múltiples visitas a Oriente Medio para cubrir una crisis, Olga Rodríguez se ofreció a… read more
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