This Book Will Make You Think
By: Alain Stephen
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Succinctly distills each of the great philosophers' best-known theories through their most famous q…
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1. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
By: John Gray
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
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"In the world shown us by Darwin, there is nothing that can be called progress."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
2. Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pajamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and How We Got Them
By: Judy Parkinson
3.45
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
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3. The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
By: Martin Puchner
4.36
Format: 184 pages,
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4. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more
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5. The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Can Change Them
By: Sharon Begley , Richard J. Davidson
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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6. As a Man Thinketh
By: James Allen
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
The mind guides our footsteps as we progress along the pathway of life. Purity of mind leads inevit… read more
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7. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By: William B. Irvine
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more
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8. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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9. I Used to Know That: History
By: Caroline Taggart , Emma Marriott
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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10. Self-Reliance and Other Essays
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental ideali… read more
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11. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
12. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
By: Robert H. Lustig
4.28
Format: 416 pages, ebook
An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more
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14. The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness
By: Jonas Salzgeber
4.18
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”– Epictetus, Stoic philoso… read more
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15. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
16. Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
By: David Fideler
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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17. Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
By: Mike Higgins
3.80
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
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18. Notes from the End of Everything
By: Robert Pantano
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. This Book Will Make You Think
By: Alain Stephen
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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20. The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
By: Kit Yates
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From birthdays to birth rates to how we perceive the passing of time, mathematical patterns shape o… read more
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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