Transformative Experience
By: L.A. Paul
3.53
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
3. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
By: Robert H. Frank
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, aft… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
4. Civilization: The West and the Rest
By: Niall Ferguson
3.86
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism"-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
5. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
6. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
7. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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- nonfiction
8. You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Sherab Chödzin Kohn
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the es… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
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- philosophy
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10. On Bullshit
By: Harry G. Frankfurt
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more
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11. 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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12. The Peregrine
By: J.A. Baker
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregr… read more
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13. Exile and the Kingdom
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
3.46
Format: 32 pages,
These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more
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14. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
By: Gayle Laakmann McDowell
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
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15. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
By: None , None
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of th… read more
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16. Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
By: Jonathan Haidt , Stephen Macedo , John Koethe , Robert Merrihew Adams , Susan R. Wolf , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two cate… read more
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17. The Predictive Mind
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypot… read more
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18. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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19. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
20. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
By: Jonathan Rauch
4.25
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts Disinformation. Trolling. Conspir… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent."-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
"If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social n…"-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
21. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL)
By: Verlan Lewis
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century A… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
22. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
23. Antwerp
By: Michael Pye
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A rich history of Antwerp from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Edge of the WorldEven bef… read more
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24. The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron"
By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
3.74
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
25. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
By: Jordan B. Peterson
4.17
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus path of modern life. I… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- personal development
- psychology
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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- nonfiction
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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. 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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- nonfiction
- personal development
- psychology
28. Science Fictions
By: Stuart Ritchie
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions
29. When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
By: Maureen Quilligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Library Journal • "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe w… read more
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"In a short six weeks, the “Northern Rebellion,"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Although these were not necessarily gifts Mary consciously gave to Elizabeth, as the first independent queen of England it was she who established a powerful rhetoric for female rule, which Elizabeth…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Mary Stuart and Elizabeth both aimed at toleration in an intolerant age, in the same ways that Catherine de’ Medici, the mother-in-law of one and the almost mother-in-law of another English queen, la…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Because [Michel de Castelnau] had been charged with making peace between [Mary Stuart] and her barons, he ignored Mary’s adamant insistence on how anti-monarchal she considered the rebel lords to be;…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
30. Transformative Experience
By: L.A. Paul
3.53
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect t… read more
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31. Class Struggle Unionism
By: Joe Burns
4.16
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
For those who want to build a fighting labor movement, there are many questions to answer. How to r… read more
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