How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the chaos
By: The School of Life
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A reassuring guide to navigating the challenges of modern media and staying sane in a world that do…
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1. How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
By: Sara Maitland
3.33
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
"Learn how to enjoy solitude and find happiness without others Our fast-paced society does not app… read more
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"Running alone can allow you to hit the mute button on the world... and take full advantage of exercise's stress-busting benefits. 'Running alone can be a meditative experience where you get to really…"-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
"...The fear-and-projection strategy will turn round and bite back: you will be the sad, mad, bad person, and this can only make a difficult situation very much worse. Additionally, since - as you wil…"-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
"This about it for a moment. It is truly very odd. We apparently believe that we own our own bodies as possessions and should be allowed to do with them more or less anything we choose, from euthanasi…"-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
"Respect but do not fear your own fear. Do not let it come between you and something that might be deeply enjoyable. Remember it is quite normal to be a bit frightened of being alone. Most of us grew …"-Sara Maitland, How to Be Alone (The School of Life)
2. Exercises in Style
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Barbara Wright
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The plot of Exercises in Style is quite simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger … read more
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"C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron"-Barbara Wright, Exercises in Style
3. How to Be Bored (The School of Life Book 4)
By: The School of Life , Eva Hoffman
4.34
Format: 345 pages,
Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, … read more
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- philosophy
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4. 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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- nonfiction
5. 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
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6. The Death of Grass
By: John Christopher
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvat… read more
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7. Mariana
By: Harriet Lane , Monica Dickens
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Monica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana - an Englishw… read more
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8. Only the Paranoid Survive
By: Andrew S. Grove
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most … read more
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- nonfiction
9. 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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10. Status Anxiety
By: Alain de Botton
3.90
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
“There's no writer alive like de Botton” ( Chicago Tribune ), and now this internationally heralded… read more
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- philosophy
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- essays
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"Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
11. How Proust Can Change Your Life
By: Alain de Botton
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more
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"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
12. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
By: Valeria Luiselli
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more
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13. The Conquest of Happiness
By: Bertrand Russell , None
4.20
Format: None pages,
The books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. - TIME "The Conquest of Happin… read more
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14. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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15. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
16. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
17. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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18. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
By: Ryan Holiday
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"We must master ourselves unless we'd prefer to be mastered by someone or something else."-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
"We must practice temperance now, in times of plenty, because none of us know what the future holds- only that plenty never lasts."-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
19. Okay Days
By: Jenny Mustard
3.76
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more
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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days
20. Confidenza
By: Domenico Starnone
3.49
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Pietro vive con Teresa un amore tempestoso. Dopo l’ennesimo litigio, a lei viene un’idea: raccontam… read more
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"Far chiarezza all'interno della vita di coppia, mah, forse è un dovere, ma anche un lusso che è rischioso permettersi."-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza
"- Aveva per modello qualcuno dei suoi insegnanti? - I miei insegnanti? No, assolutamente no. Anzi, il mio unico imperativo era: non fare ai tuoi allievi il male che i tuoi insegnanti hanno fatto a te."-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza
"Pensai: ci innamoriamo di persone che sembrano vere ma non esistono, sono una nostra invenzione; questa donna così ferma, dalle frasi così scandite, questa donna senza timidezze, sferzante, non la co…"-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza
21. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- essays
- self help
22. Loved and Missed
By: Susie Boyt
4.30
Format: None pages, None
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, … read more
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"I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself."-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"I thought of him as a long-lost relation. A sailor coming into port- agitated, sweat on his brow- who needed somewhere calm to lay his head. He was good company. And it was hard for me to feel I was …"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"You ever wish that you’d . . . ’ I waited for more, but her question politely disintegrated. But then, although no more words were forthcoming, she tilted her head slightly and suddenly what she’d as…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
"Jean’s capacity to bounce back in life always impressed me. The way she held herself in high regard. It was a form of personal, almost bodily optimism, you could say. Integrity that went deep and was…"-Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
23. The School of Life: An Emotional Education
By: Alain de Botton
4.25
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more
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- mental health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
24. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
25. What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
By: Tim Urban
4.28
Format: 746 pages, Kindle Edition
From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
"The Scientist’s clear mind sees a foggy world, full of complexity and nuance and messiness, the Zealot’s foggy mind shows them a clear, simple world, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distincti…"-Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
26. Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
By: Katherine Rundell
4.10
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
An unmissable essay on the importance of children's literature by the bestselling and award-winning… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Children's books are not a hiding place, they are a seeking place."-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
"But the writing we call children’s fiction is not a childish thing: childish things include picking your nose and eating the contents, and tantruming at the failure to get your own way. The 45th Pres…"-Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
27. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
By: Louise Perry
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
28. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
By: Maryanne Wolf
3.89
Format: 272 pages, ebook
The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply in… read more
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- psychology
"Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a con…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political or…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"It is still a matter of amazement to me that what we know before we read any sentence prepares us to recognize even the visual shapes of the individual words faster and to understand their meanings m…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
29. When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times
By: Haemin Sunim
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim, a guide to turning life's challenges into opportun… read more
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- mental health
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- self help
30. Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
By: Shauna Shapiro
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Discover the Transformative Effects of Being Kind to Yourself “This brilliant book offers us both … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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31. How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the chaos
By: The School of Life
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A reassuring guide to navigating the challenges of modern media and staying sane in a world that do… read more
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