Western Philosophy: An Anthology
By: John Cottingham
4.10
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
From ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today, Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides…
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
By: Julian Baggini
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
The author presents 100 thought experiments which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and i… read more
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- philosophy
- science
- nonfiction
- reference
4. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. The Faber Book of Beasts
By: Paul Muldoon
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Faber Book of Beastsis a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures wh… read more
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6. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
7. Essays and Aphorisms
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more
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8. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
By: Simon Blackburn
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscap… read more
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9. Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.80
Format: None pages,
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more
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10. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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11. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
12. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
By: David Hume
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more
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13. Philosophy: The Basics
By: Nigel Warburton
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in its fourth edition, Nigel Warburton's best-selling book gently eases the reader into the wor… read more
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14. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more
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15. The Philosophy Book
By: Will Buckingham , Douglas Burnham , Clive Hill , Peter J. King , None , Marcus Weeks
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
To the complete novice, learning about philosophy can be a cause for dread-"I won't understand" is … read more
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16. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
17. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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18. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
19. Kant: A Very Short Introduction
By: Roger Scruton
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most diff… read more
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20. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
21. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
By: Richard K. Morgan
4.04
Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition
Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited f… read more
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"You smoke?"-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
"Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture."-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
"What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me."-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
22. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
23. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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- nonfiction
"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
24. How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.37
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more
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- history
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"Racist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"I use “anticapitalist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
25. Western Philosophy: An Anthology
By: John Cottingham
4.10
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
From ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today, Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
- science
26. Political Philosophy (A222 Exploring Philosophy)
By: Jon Pike
3.67
Format: 180 pages, None
In this, the final book of exploring philosophy, we turn to political philosophy: that is, philosop… read more
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27. Knowledge (A222 Exploring Philosophy)
By: Cristina Chimisso
3.50
Format: 196 pages, None
Throughout the history of philosophy, knowledge has been a central problem; philosophers have dedic… read more
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28. Mind (A222 Exploring Philosophy)
By: Derek Matravers
3.00
Format: 156 pages, None
Philosophy begins with puzzlement. So far, you have thought your way through several of these puzzl… read more
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29. Ethics (A222 Exploring Philosophy)
By: Alex Barber
3.92
Format: 216 pages, None
Judgements about what we ought or ought not to do permeate and shape our lives. But what grounds do… read more
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30. The Self (A222 Exploring Philosophy)
By: Nigel Warburton
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is the first of six books in A222 Exploring philosophy. It is somewhat shorter than the other … read more
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31. The Philosophy of Religion (A222 Exploring Philosophy)
By: Timothy Chappell
3.67
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In this book we turn from the self to God. We turn from questions about personal identity, and what… read more
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