Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
By: Roger Scruton
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Roger Scruton was one of Britain's leading thinkers. In this book he offers a radically different a…
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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- nature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
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"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. St. Francis of Assisi
By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more
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"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
3. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- nature
- ecology
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- nonfiction
- environment
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
4. The Poetic Edda
By: Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The Poetic Eddacomprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place … read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Song of Roland
By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more
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6. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
By: Oswald Spengler
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
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7. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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- philosophy
8. The Heart of the Matter
By: Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Scobie is a highly principled officer in a war-torn West African state. When he is passed over for … read more
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9. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
By: Thomas Sowell
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- society
"Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it pos…"-Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
10. Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
By: Pope Benedict XVI
3.00
Format: 108 pages,
For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who ro… read more
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11. Legion
By: William Peter Blatty
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from Th… read more
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12. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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13. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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14. Being There
By: Jerzy Kosiński
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and signifi… read more
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15. Het belastingparadijs
By: None
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
U beseft het misschien niet, maar u woont in een exotisch paradijs. En dan hebben we het niet over … read more
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16. Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1)
By: J.G. Ballard
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's st… read more
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17. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
18. 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
- society
- audiobook
"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
19. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
By: Helen Thompson
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western… read more
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- politics
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20. Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
By: Roger Scruton
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Roger Scruton was one of Britain's leading thinkers. In this book he offers a radically different a… read more
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- nonfiction
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- society
- nature
- science
21. Spirit of Solidarity (English and Polish Edition)
By: Józef Tischner
3.45
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
English, Polish (translation) read more
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