Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)
By: G.A. Cohen
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it gua…
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1. A Scanner Darkly
By: Philip K. Dick
4.02
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more
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"We're all dreaming,"-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"I have seen myself backward."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
2. On the Plurality of Worlds
By: David Kellogg Lewis
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of wor… read more
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- philosophy
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"We can imagine the impossible, provided we do not imagine it in perfect detail and all at once."-David Kellogg Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds
3. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
4. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
5. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.19
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
6. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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- philosophy
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
7. Mother Night
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
8. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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9. Ethical Intuitionism
By: Michael Huemer
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This book defends a form of ethical intuitionism, according to which (i) there are objective moral … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
12. 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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- politics
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- economics
13. The Collector
By: John Fowles
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obse… read more
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14. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
15. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
16. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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17. On Bullshit
By: Harry G. Frankfurt
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more
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18. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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19. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
20. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
21. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
22. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
23. Animal Liberation
By: Peter Singer
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more
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24. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By: Robert Nozick
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held politi… read more
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25. The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
By: Michael Huemer
3.33
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
Modern states commonly deploy coercion in a wide array of circumstances in which the resort to forc… read more
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26. A Theory of Justice
By: John Rawls , None
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has no… read more
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27. 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
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
28. The Complete Cosmicomics
By: Italo Calvino , Tim Parks , William Weaver , Martin L. McLaughlin
4.47
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories-… read more
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29. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
30. Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory)
By: G.A. Cohen
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it gua… read more
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- nonfiction
- political science
- economics
31. On What Matters: Volume One
By: Derek Parfit
4.17
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parf… read more
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