Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
4.35
Format: 478 pages, Hardcover
Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually …
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1. City of God
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson
3.93
Format: 1186 pages, Paperback
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
2. The Enneads
By: Plotinus , Stephen MacKenna , John M. Dillon , Stephan MacKenna
4.06
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Plotinus is the last great philosopher of antiquity, although in more than one respect, a precursor… read more
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"That which is afraid is that which is capable of being affected."-Plotinus, The Enneads
"The purification of the Soul is simply to allow it to be alone; it is pure when it keeps no company."-Plotinus, The Enneads
"Bad men rule by the feebleness of the ruled; and this is just; the triumph of weaklings would not be just."-Plotinus, The Enneads
"Those incapable of thinking gravely read gravity into frivolties which correspond to their own frivolous nature."-Plotinus, The Enneads
3. The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
By: Hans Jonas
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Gnostic Religion was the 1st decent introduction to gnosticism for the modern world & is still … read more
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4. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
By: Robert Alter , Gershom Scholem
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and c… read more
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5. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
6. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
7. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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8. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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9. Parmenides
By: Plato , Keith Whitaker
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more
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10. Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England
By: T.M. Luhrmann
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcr… read more
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11. Protagoras
By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o… read more
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12. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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13. The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 59)
By: James Hollis
3.65
Format: 448 pages,
Title #59. Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we … read more
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14. The Secrets of Alchemy
By: Lawrence M. Principe
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Alchemy, the "Noble Art," conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with b… read more
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15. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
16. Metaphysics
By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more
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17. The Wars of the Roses
By: Alison Weir
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for… read more
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18. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
By: Frances A. Yates
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Placing Bruno--both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake--in the Hermetic traditio… read more
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19. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
20. Cratylus
By: Plato , C.D.C. Reeve
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb editio… read more
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21. De Anima
By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know it… read more
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22. The Art of Memory
By: Frances A. Yates
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of… read more
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23. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
By: Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
This is the first of three fascinating volumes in which Braudel, the renowned historian and celebra… read more
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24. 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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"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
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
25. Timaeus/Critias
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates, Timaeus, Critias and Hermocrates, these two works ar… read more
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26. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
27. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
28. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
29. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more
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30. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
4.35
Format: 478 pages, Hardcover
Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually … read more
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