History and Memory
By: Jacques Le Goff
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historia…
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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. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- history
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. 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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- philosophy
- history
- nonfiction
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- history
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5. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- philosophy
- history
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
7. İnsan Ne İle Yaşar?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Lev Tolstoy
1.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Insan Ne Ile Yasar" unlu dusunur ve yazar Tolstoy'un okuyucunun manevi dunyasina hitap eden hikaye… read more
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- philosophy
8. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
By: Marc Bloch , Joseph R. Strayer , None
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques… read more
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9. On Collective Memory
By: Lewis A. Coser , None
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-194… read more
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10. Interpreting the French Revolution
By: François Furet
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This series of essays shows how one can conceptualize an historical event such as the French Revolu… read more
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11. 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
"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
"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
12. The Interpretation of Cultures
By: Clifford Geertz
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far bey… read more
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13. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Norman Thomas di Giovanni
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sandwas the last … read more
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14. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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15. Poemas de Álvaro de Campos
By: Fernando Pessoa , Álvaro de Campos
3.93
Format: None pages,
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16. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
17. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
18. O que é Meu
By: José Henrique Bortoluci
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more
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19. Historia del silencio: Del Renacimiento a nuestros días
By: Alain Corbin
3.13
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
El silencio no es la simple ausencia de ruido. Hace posible la fortaleza interior donde los grandes… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. On History
By: Fernand Braudel
3.63
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire —a collection of essays written over a twent… read more
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- history
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21. History and Memory
By: Jacques Le Goff
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historia… read more
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