An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
By: Ian Hacking
3.80
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
This is an introductory textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world's foremos…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. The Racial Contract
By: Charles W. Mills
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. Wi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
3. The Two Cultures
By: C.P. Snow , Stefan Collini
3.66
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a … read more
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"The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process"-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
"Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other."-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
"There is no getting away from it. It is technically possible to carry out the scientific revolution in India, Africa, South-east Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, within fifty years. There is no …"-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
"But what about the other side? They are impoverished too—perhaps more seriously, because they are vainer about it. They still like to pretend that the traditional culture is the whole of ‘culture’, a…"-C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
4. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
By: Samir Okasha
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can sci… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
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"It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science."-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
"The failure of Popper's demarcation criterion throws up an important question. Is it actually possible to find some common feature shared by all the things we call 'science...'? It may be that they s…"-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
"The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only inte…"-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
"From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of the identity of indiscernibles (PII). PII says that if …"-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
5. Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)
By: Claude McKay
4.02
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay (1889–1948), reveals much a… read more
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"Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws."-Claude McKay, Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)
"If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O l…"-Claude McKay, Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)
6. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
By: Jonathan Edwards
3.85
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
This is a reprint of Jonathan Edward's famous sermon. Many have said it is the most famous sermon e… read more
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- history
"The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an …"-Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- history
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
9. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- science
10. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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- philosophy
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- history
- science
12. What Is This Thing Called Science?
By: Alan F. Chalmers
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
This indispensable new edition brings Chalmers' popular text up to date with contemporary trends an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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13. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
14. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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15. A Mathematician's Apology
By: G.H. Hardy
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1940 as his mathematical powers were declining, G.H. Hardy's apology offers an engaging … read more
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16. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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17. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
18. Naming and Necessity
By: Saul A. Kripke
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is … read more
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19. Euthyphro
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more
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20. 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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21. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
By: Steve Silberman
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more
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22. Calculus Made Easy
By: Martin Gardner , None
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Calculus Made Easyhas long been the most popular calculus primer, and this major revision of the cl… read more
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23. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
24. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
25. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
26. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
By: John Gray
3.54
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
By: Andriy Burkov
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Concise and to the point — the book can be read during a week. During that week, you will learn alm… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
28. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
By: Gary F. Marcus
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the… read more
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- nonfiction
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29. Convention: A Philosophical Study
By: David Lewis
4.05
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance h… read more
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- logic
- philosophy
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30. Philosophy of Logics
By: Susan Haack
4.16
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's… read more
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- philosophy
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31. An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
By: Ian Hacking
3.80
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
This is an introductory textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world's foremos… read more
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- history
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- philosophy
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"The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea."-Ian Hacking, An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
