The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
By: Sigmund Freud , Joyce Crick , John Carey
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, lik…
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1. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
4.00
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
3. The Red Book: Liber Novus
By: C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck
4.50
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called it his “confrontation with the un… read more
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- psychoanalysis
- classics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"You are a slave to what you need in your soul."-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido."-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
"Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real."-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
"«Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»"-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
4. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- classics
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
5. Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
By: Camille Paglia
3.69
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Overconcentration on any one point is distortion."-Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
"Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracu…"-Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
6. Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
By: Flora Rheta Schreiber
3.99
Format: 481 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse wh… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- psychology
"There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you."-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
"You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready."-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
"Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up"-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
"She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her."-Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
7. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more
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- classics
"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories
8. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
By: Henri Bergson , Fred Rothwell , Yaşar Avunç , None
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
En este espléndido ensayo filosófico escrito en los albores del siglo XX, Henri Bergson se pregunta… read more
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- humor
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- comedy
"A flexible vice may not be so easy to ridicule as a rigid virtue."-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them."-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"En ce sens, on pourrait dire que la nature obtient souvent elle-même des succès de caricaturiste. Dans le mouvement par lequel elle a fendu cette bouche, rétréci ce menton, gonflé cette joue, il semb…"-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"Si régulière que soit une physionomie, si harmonieuse qu'on en suppose les lignes, si souples les mouvements, jamais l'équilibre n'en est absolument parfait. On y démêlera toujours l'indication d'une…"-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
9. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
10. The Sublime Object of Ideology
By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more
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- philosophy
- psychoanalysis
- nonfiction
- psychology
11. 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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- nonfiction
- psychology
12. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
By: Sigmund Freud , Joyce Crick , John Carey
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, lik… read more
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- classics
- humor
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- comedy
13. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
14. Symbolic Exchange and Death
By: Jean Baudrillard , Ian Grant
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theori… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
15. What Is Art?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
3.73
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Kar… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, and consequently it is impossible for me to live,"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling th…"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
16. A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more
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17. The Drawing of the Dark
By: Tim Powers
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Del Rey's Impact line introduces a list of titles that have "slipped through the cracks and become … read more
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18. The Palm-Wine Drinkard
By: Amos Tutuola
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional w… read more
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19. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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20. L'ultimo quaderno
By: José Saramago
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Oltre a essere uno dei piu importanti scrittori del nostro tempo, Jose Saramago e stato un acuto os… read more
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21. 4.48 Psychosis
By: Sarah Kane
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more
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22. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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23. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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24. Justine
By: Marquis de Sade
3.76
Format: 205 pages,
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, conocido por su titulo de Marques de Sade (Paris, 2 de junio de… read more
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25. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
By: Jacques Lacan
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized au… read more
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26. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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27. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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28. Politics
By: Aristotle
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more
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29. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
By: C.G. Jung
4.20
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
"Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious."-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
30. The Joker
By: Brian Azzarello , Lee Bermejo
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City--fro… read more
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31. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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- psychology
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
