Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
By: Jonathan Wolff
3.95
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Language, Truth, and Logic
By: A.J. Ayer
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First publishe… read more
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- philosophy
"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... […"-A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
3. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
4. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
5. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- philosophy
6. The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations
By: Robert Nozick
4.18
Format: 306 pages,
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- philosophy
7. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
By: Owen Jones
4.09
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more
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"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
8. The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff
3.88
Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more
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- philosophy
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"This is pity,"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
9. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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10. Marxism and Literature
By: Raymond Williams
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. H… read more
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11. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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12. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
By: Richard J. Evans
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more
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13. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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14. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- philosophy
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
15. 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
16. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
By: Christopher Hill
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protesta… read more
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17. 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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18. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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19. The Nature of Rationality
By: Robert Nozick
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a … read more
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20. Politics
By: Aristotle
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more
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21. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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22. 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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23. 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
24. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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25. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
26. The Precipice
By: Toby Ord
4.00
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch… read more
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"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of futu…"-Toby Ord, The Precipice
27. The Psychology of Stupidity
By: Jean-François Marmion
3.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Stupidity is all around us. But in order to vanquish it, we must first understand it. In The Psycho… read more
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"Fighting stupidity tends to reinforce it."-Jean-François Marmion, The Psychology of Stupidity
28. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
By: Simon Baron-Cohen
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more
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29. 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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30. Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
By: Jonathan Wolff
3.95
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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