7 Top philosophy books like The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe by Stephen Ellcock

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The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe

By: Stephen Ellcock

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between…

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe by Stephen Ellcock , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

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2. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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  • philosophy
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Rebecca Solnit

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature

4. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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5. Thought-Forms

By: Annie Besant , Charles W. Leadbeater

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

A study on the nature and power of thoughts this is the most well-known book of the prominent Theos… read more

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6. Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

By: John Berger

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers … read more

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7. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • philosophy
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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8. Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.43

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The FIFTH BOOK in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Br… read more

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9. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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10. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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11. The Ghost in You (Reckless, #4)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.26

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The fourth book in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed B… read more

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12. Friend of the Devil (Reckless, #2)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.31

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

The next book in the red-hot Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker… read more

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13. Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The next book in the red-hot Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker… read more

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14. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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15. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: 5 pages, ebook

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • philosophy
  • history
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16. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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17. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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18. The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more

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19. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott

20. Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day

By: Dan Nott

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We use water, electricity, and the internet every day--but how do they actually work? And what’s th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe by Stephen Ellcock

21. The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe

By: Stephen Ellcock

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • nature

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Man and His Symbols

C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

2.84

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Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave

4.44

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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

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Fantastic Four: Full Circle

Alex Ross

3.79

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Ed Brubaker

4.43

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Chip Zdarsky

3.94

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Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

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