Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners
By: Bryan W. Van Norden
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In just thirteen brief, accessible chapters, this engaging little book takes "absolute beginners" f…
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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- philosophy
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
By: Bryan W. Van Norden , Philip J. Ivanhoe
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This new edition offers expanded selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius),… read more
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- philosophy
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3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- philosophy
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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5. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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6. The Iliad/The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more
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7. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
By: Mark Edward Lewis
3.82
Format: None pages,
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- china
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8. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
9. The Children of Húrin
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more
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10. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. His Master's Voice
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutr… read more
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- philosophy
12. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
By: Matthew Harvey Sommer
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Changes in the criminalization of sexual behaviour during the Qing dynasty indicate that the 18th c… read more
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13. Chinese
By: Jerry Norman
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
A general introduction to the study of Chinese traces the language's history from the second millen… read more
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- language
14. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
15. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more
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- philosophy
- china
- nonfiction
16. A History of Reading
By: Alberto Manguel
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien … read more
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17. Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
By: Mark Lawrence
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin. At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are ra… read more
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18. A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation
By: Chad Hansen
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Paperback
This ambitious book presents a new interpretation of Chinese thought guided both by a philosopher's… read more
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19. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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20. Metaphors We Live By
By: George Lakoff , Mark Johnson
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The now-classic Metaphors We Live Bychanged our understanding of metaphor and its role in language … read more
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21. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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22. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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- nonfiction
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
23. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
24. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
25. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.34
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more
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"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)
27. Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners
By: Bryan W. Van Norden
4.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In just thirteen brief, accessible chapters, this engaging little book takes "absolute beginners" f… read more
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- language
28. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
By: David Stasavage
3.85
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation." —Steven Levitsky, N… read more
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"History suggests that even in a full democracy, the risk that the 5,000 will dominate is much greater than the threat that the 5,000,000 will expropriate the 5,000."-David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
29. A Bad Girl's Book of Animals
By: Wong May
4.12
Format: 83 pages, None
The poems here are little and fragile. They are old women dying alone in drafty back bedrooms. If y… read more
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30. Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar
By: Edwin G. Pulleyblank
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is a comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of… read more
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31. The Philosophy of the Daodejing
By: Hans-Georg Moeller
4.21
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
For centuries, the ancient Chinese philosophical text the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) has fascinated a… read more
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- china
- nonfiction
"Like it or not, philosophy or intellectual activity in ancient China was distinguished from manual labor, and thus philosophical texts were not only political in nature (because they normally address…"-Hans-Georg Moeller, The Philosophy of the Daodejing
