The Heroic Enthusiasts, Gli Eroici Furori: An Ethical Poem
By: Giordano Bruno
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.12
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould'… read more
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."-Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
"I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammal…"-Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
"El mundo está repleto de señales que no percibimos. Las criaturas diminutas viven en un mundo diferente de fuerzas poco familiares. Muchos animales “de nuestra escala exceden en mucho el alcance de n…"-Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
2. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
3. 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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"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
4. Praise of Folly
By: Erasmus , Betty Radice , A.H.T. Levi
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist move… read more
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5. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
6. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
7. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
By: Joseph Campbell , Heinrich Robert Zimmer
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legends, myth, and folklore, ta… read more
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8. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Marianne Cowan
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of… read more
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9. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more
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10. The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan
By: George Steiner
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thoughthis magnum … read more
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11. The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
By: Anonymous , Juan Mascaró
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages an… read more
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12. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more
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13. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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14. Nosotros, los hijos de Eichmann: Carta abierta a Klaus Eichmann
By: Günther Anders
4.06
Format: 205 pages,
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15. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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. Discourse on Method
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more
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18. Elder Race
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.11
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more
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19. The Heroic Enthusiasts, Gli Eroici Furori: An Ethical Poem
By: Giordano Bruno
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
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"Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me."-Giordano Bruno, The Heroic Enthusiasts, Gli Eroici Furori: An Ethical Poem
20. Anthropology: Why It Matters
By: Tim Ingold
4.02
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fu… read more
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21. Che cosa è la religione?
By: Jeppe Sinding Jensen
3.14
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
La religione è un fatto sociale e culturale, parte integrante della storia umana.Questo libro ha l’… read more
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