6 best-selling nonfiction books like La verdad y las formas jurídicas by Michel Foucault

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La verdad y las formas jurídicas

By: Michel Foucault

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Estas cinco conferencias, dictadas por Michel Foucault en la Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in La verdad y las formas jurídicas by Michel Foucault , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Vita Nuova(1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in … read more

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2. Cronopios and Famas

By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected i… read more

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3. 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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4. The Kingdom of This World

By: Alejo Carpentier , Harriet de Onís

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurp… read more

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5. An Evil Mind (Robert Hunter, #6)

By: Chris Carter

4.36

Format: None pages, ebook

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible dou… read more

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6. La plaça del diamant

By: Mercè Rodoreda

3.73

Format: None pages,

La vida de Natalia, la protagonista i narradora de La placa del Diamant, es capgira quan coneix Qui… read more

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7. Aura

By: Carlos Fuentes

3.82

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more

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"Hay que morir antes de renacer."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

8. The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more

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9. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

10. Balún Canán

By: Rosario Castellanos

3.64

Format: 288 pages,

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11. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

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12. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

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13. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

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14. Cinco horas con Mario

By: Miguel Delibes

3.90

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. read more

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15. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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16. The Twilight Zone

By: Nona Fernández

4.20

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invad… read more

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  • politics
"No importa lo que ves, importa lo que crees que ves."

-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone

"Ser estúpido es una elección personal y no necesariamente hay que llevar uniforme para ejercer ese maligno talento."

-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone

"La empatía y la compasión son rasgos de lucidez, la posibilidad de ponerse en los zapatos del otro, de transmutar la piel y enmascararse con un rostro ajeno es un ejercicio de pura inteligencia."

-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone

"I believe that evil is directly proportional to idiocy. I believe that the territory you roamed in anguish before you disappeared is ruled by idiots. It isn’t true that criminals are masterminds. It …"

-Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone

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17. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of O pacto da branquitude by Maria Aparecida Silva Bento

18. O pacto da branquitude

By: Maria Aparecida Silva Bento

4.50

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Diante de dezenas de recusas em processos seletivos, Cida Bento identificou um padrão: por mais qua… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. La verdad y las formas jurídicas

By: Michel Foucault

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Estas cinco conferencias, dictadas por Michel Foucault en la Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

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4.05

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Nona Fernández

4.20

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4.50

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3.78

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4.14

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