44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World
By: Zygmunt Bauman
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long.…
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1. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
By: Richard Sennett
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"İyi bir işin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri artık örtüşmüyordu."-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
"Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insanın karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlatıya dönüşmesini engelleyen çılgın zaman deneyimi arasında bir çatışma yarattı."-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
"... sürekli riske maruz kalmak, karakter duygunuzu iyice aşındırır. Ortalamaya doğru regresyon eğilimini yenebilecek hiçbir anlatı yoktur; insan her defasında 'baştan başlar'."-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
"Rutin, belirli bir noktada zararlı hale gelmeye başlar. Çünkü insanoğlu kendi çabası üzerindeki kontrolünü yitirir; çalışma zamanı üzerindeki kontrolün yitmesi ise insanın zihnen öldüğü anlamına geli…"-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
2. O Cortiço
By: Aluísio Azevedo , None
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Se O Cortiço é dos romances mais contundentes da literatura brasileira, este volume possui atributo… read more
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"[...] honestidade sem mérito, porque vinha da indolência do seu temperamento e não do arbítrio do seu caráter."-Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço
3. İnsan Olmak
By: Engin Geçtan
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kan… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. The Little Virtues
By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg
4.10
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more
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- philosophy
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"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
5. Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm
By: Gündüz Vassaf , Zehra Gençosman , Ömer Madra
4.30
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Bazı eleştirmenlerin "şeytanın avukatı" sıfatını yakıştırdıkları Gündüz Vassaf'ın "gözden geçirilmi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
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"Herkes aynı yöne çekseydi, dünya alabora olurdu. Yidis atasözü"-Gündüz Vassaf, Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm
"Psikiyatrist, bugünün totaliter toplumunda, en yüce kolluk kuvvetidir."-Gündüz Vassaf, Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm
"The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously."-Gündüz Vassaf, Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm
"Dünyayı sözcüklerle tutsak ettik. Bu süreçte biz de, kendi sözcüklerimizin tutsağı olduk."-Gündüz Vassaf, Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm
6. Morfina
By: Szczepan Twardoch
3.93
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
Bóg? Honor? Ojczyzna? Morfina! Konstanty Willemann, warszawiak, lecz syn niemieckiego aryst… read more
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- polish literature
"Ale przecież to wiesz, Konstanty, wiesz, że takim jest świat, że muszą być i zawsze będą rządzący i rządzeni, i że granica między nimi jest większą niż granica między zbawionymi i potępionymi, że prz…"-Szczepan Twardoch, Morfina
"Mam to w dupie. Twarz chlustam, polewam łeb spuchnięty resztą wody, czaszka skrzypi, słyszę, jak mi czaszka skrzypi, od środka opuchnięty mózg napiera na kości, od zewnątrz mrozi je lodowaty strumień…"-Szczepan Twardoch, Morfina
"Myślisz o Celtach Slowianach Awarach zasiedleniach językach izoglosach etymologiach indoeuropejskich ugrofińskich substratach nie dlatego, że zaraziła cię tym twoja matka, myślisz, ponieważ łudzisz s…"-Szczepan Twardoch, Morfina
7. The Art of Loving
By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
8. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more
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9. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- philosophy
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
10. La plaça del diamant
By: Mercè Rodoreda
3.73
Format: None pages,
La vida de Natalia, la protagonista i narradora de La placa del Diamant, es capgira quan coneix Qui… read more
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11. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
12. 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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13. Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more
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14. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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15. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
16. Bodas de sangre
By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more
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17. Ofrenda a la tormenta (Trilogía del Baztán, #3)
By: Dolores Redondo
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Izminal e samo mesets ot prikliuchvaneto na vtoriia sluchai, pri koito inspektor Amaia Salasar uspi… read more
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18. 27 śmierci Toby'ego Obeda
By: Joanna Gierak-Onoszko
4.64
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
To też jest Kanada: siedem zapałek w słoiku, sny o czubkach drzew, powiewające na wietrze czerwone … read more
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- polish literature
- nonfiction
"Przydaje się wtedy formuła mająca wszystkie wątpliwości rozwiać, a wszelkie winy unieważnić. Cudowne zaklęcie, trzy słowa, które dobrze brzmią w każdej epoce i pod każdą szerokością geograficzną. Ta-…"-Joanna Gierak-Onoszko, 27 śmierci Toby'ego Obeda
19. La Malnata
By: Beatrice Salvioni
3.91
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Due ragazzine molto diverse tra loro. La storia di un'amicizia indimenticabile nell'Italia del fasc… read more
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20. I baffi
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.73
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more
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21. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
22. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- essays
"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
23. Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
By: Renee Engeln
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Żyjemy w świecie, w którym wmawia się kobietom, że ich największą wartością jest piękny wygląd. Wiz… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"They know what they see isn't real, but they still long for it."-Renee Engeln, Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
"Once when I was in graduate school, I got a terrible case of the flu and dropped a good deal of weight in a short amount of time. When I returned to campus, a professor said, “You look good! Did you …"-Renee Engeln, Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
"If we train young women to believe their most important asset is their appearance … It is no coincidence that when women say things men don't like, the response is often not a critique of their ideas…"-Renee Engeln, Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
"I want to apologize to all the women I have called beautiful before I've called them intelligent or brave I am sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is all you …"-Renee Engeln, Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
24. Los hombres no son islas: Los clásicos nos ayudan a vivir
By: Nuccio Ordine
3.81
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Partiendo de la célebre meditación de John Donne, Nuccio Ordine amplía su «biblioteca ideal» invitá… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Go the F**k to Sleep
By: Adam Mansbach
4.28
Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition
A laugh-out-loud, adults-only bedtime story for parents familiar with the age-old struggle of putti… read more
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"All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep."-Adam Mansbach, Go the F**k to Sleep
26. Blomsterdalen
By: Niviaq Korneliussen
3.67
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i… read more
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27. Czuły narrator
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Wyjątkowe zaproszenie za kulisy własnej twórczości – pierwsza książka Olgi Tokarczuk po otrzymaniu … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"A to, co wyobrażone, jest pierwszym stadium istnienia."-Olga Tokarczuk, Czuły narrator
28. Une sortie honorable
By: Éric Vuillard
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
La guerre d'Indochine est l'une des plus longues guerres modernes. Pourtant, dans nos manuels scola… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- essays
"Art unmakes the world made by work."-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had
30. Timandra
By: Theodor Kallifatides
3.64
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
Timandra è una figura di confine: corposa, perché le fonti storiche ne fanno cenno come della splen… read more
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31. 44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World
By: Zygmunt Bauman
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long.… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- polish literature
- sociology
