The Story of Utopias
By: Lewis Mumford
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain…
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
By: Philip Roth
3.91
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a… read more
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"Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"موته كان خلاصها.الموت تدخل ليبسط كل شيء.كل شك،كل ريبة،كل الهواجس أزيحت جانبا على يد ذلك المستخف الأعظم بهم جميعا،الذي هو الموت."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
3. What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
By: Will Gompertz
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humorEvery year, millions of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is Duchamp who is to blame for the whole “is it art?"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Picasso is said to have once mused that it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child."-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"We'll be fine’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir said assertively. ‘We are good artist; we know that. Remember what Baudelaire said before he died: "Nothing can be done except little by little." That is what we…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Porque no pienso que la cuestion de fondo resida en juzgar si una obra nueva de arte contemporaneo es buena o mala: el tiempo se encargará de eso. es más importante comrpender de qué modo y por qué e…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
4. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
5. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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- philosophy
"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
6. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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- philosophy
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
7. Una noche con Sabrina Love
By: Pedro Mairal
3.68
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Daniel Montero tiene diecisiete años y un rito nocturno: mirar el programa de la porno star del mom… read more
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8. Sostiene Pereira
By: Antonio Tabucchi
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more
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9. All We Shall Know
By: Donal Ryan
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I… read more
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10. The Scarlet Plague
By: Jack London
3.88
Format: 136 pages,
'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgro… read more
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11. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
12. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
13. The Thief's Journal
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
3.00
Format: 144 pages,
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying… read more
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14. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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15. A Philosophy of Walking
By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros
3.74
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
16. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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17. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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18. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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19. The Technological Society
By: Robert K. Merton , Jacques Ellul
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendere… read more
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20. All the Names
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead shar… read more
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22. 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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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
"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
23. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
By: Irene Solà
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more
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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
24. Los asquerosos
By: Santiago Lorenzo
3.81
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Manuel acuchilla a un policía antidisturbios que quería pegarle. Huye. Se esconde en una aldea aban… read more
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"La suerte estaba echada y no había otra que salir arreando: ARREA jacta est." · Los asquerosos - Santiago Lorenzo"-Santiago Lorenzo, Los asquerosos
"No acoplaba bien, acaso por el chorro excesivo de ansias que tenía de acoplar [...] angustias derivadas del que si me arrimo o que si me despego."-Santiago Lorenzo, Los asquerosos
25. 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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- nonfiction
- history
"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
26. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
27. Hurricane Season
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more
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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
28. Poeta chileno
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.39
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more
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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
29. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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- nonfiction
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
30. Todo va a mejorar
By: Almudena Grandes
3.86
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
España en un futuro próximo. Un nuevo partido político llamado Movimiento Ciudadano ¡Soluciones Ya!… read more
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31. The Story of Utopias
By: Lewis Mumford
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- society
- utopia
- sociology
