The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd
By: Theodore Dalrymple
3.81
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
The cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of u…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- history
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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- philosophy
- history
- nonfiction
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
3. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
By: Oswald Spengler
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- history
- nonfiction
5. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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6. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
7. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II
By: None , Leon Trotsky , Thomas P. Whitney , Georgi Plekhanov
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is a question if any work of literature in our era other than The Divine Comedyis commensurate w… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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10. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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11. Mortality
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more
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12. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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13. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
By: James K.A. Smith
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our t… read more
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14. Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
By: Thomas Sowell
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and m… read more
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15. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
16. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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17. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
By: Michael Kandel , Jan Kott , Tadeusz Borowski , None
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz… read more
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18. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
By: Douglas Murray
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more
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19. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
By: Christopher Booker
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle o… read more
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20. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
4.52
Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
23. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.09
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
By: Douglas Murray
4.21
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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25. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
26. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
27. A Movie Making Nerd
By: James Rolfe
4.02
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
James Rolfe is an independent filmmaker and creator of the Angry Video Game Nerd web series and fea… read more
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28. Discrimination and Disparities
By: Thomas Sowell
4.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd
By: Theodore Dalrymple
3.81
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
The cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of u… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Home: Social Essays
By: Amiri Baraka
4.19
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The author, poet, playwright, and composer documents the racial politics of America between 1960 an… read more
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