The One by Whom Scandal Comes
By: René Girard
4.22
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
“Why is there so much violence in our midst?” René Girard asks. “No question is more debated today.…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect."-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
"Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect."-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
"We condemn the Inquisition in the name of Christian values. After all, we can't condemn it in the name of the Mahabharata, which is comprised of a series of alternating murders, rather like the Iliad!"-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
"We condemn the Inquisition in the name of Christian values. After all, we can't condemn it in the name of the Mahabharata, which is comprised of a series of alternating murders, rather like the Iliad!"-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
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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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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- nonfiction
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
3. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
4. The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
By: Eric Voegelin
4.21
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-se… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
5. The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
By: Richard Rohr
4.26
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods f… read more
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- philosophy
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- nonfiction
- theology
"When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic."-Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
6. The Art of the Novel
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes,… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
8. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- philosophy
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- theology
9. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
10. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
By: Sönke Ahrens
3.42
Format: 320 pages,
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- nonfiction
11. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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- nonfiction
12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sir Gawain and the Green Knightand Pearlare two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. S… read more
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13. The Way of a Pilgrim
By: Anonymous , Thomas Hopko , None
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ova knjiga nije drugo nego upravo pokusaj opisati osobno iskustvo jednog ruskog poboznika - bogotra… read more
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14. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
15. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
16. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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17. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
(1939 translation) read more
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18. The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus
By: Andrew Klavan
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believe… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
19. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
By: Luke Burgis
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more
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20. Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
By: Roger Scruton
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“…one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western poli… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The American liberal is certainly not averse to the power of the state, provided it is exerted by liberals, and exerted against conservatives."-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
"What makes a political order legitimate, in the conservative view, is not the free choices that create it, but the free choices that it creates."-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
"The lesson of history for Hume is that the established order, founded on customs that are followed and accepted, is always to be preferred to the ideas, however exultant and inspiring, of those who w…"-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
"When society is organised from above, either by the top-down government of a revolutionary dictatorship, or by the impersonal edicts of an inscrutable bureaucracy, then accountability rapidly disappe…"-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
21. The One by Whom Scandal Comes
By: René Girard
4.22
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
“Why is there so much violence in our midst?” René Girard asks. “No question is more debated today.… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
"Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect."-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
"We condemn the Inquisition in the name of Christian values. After all, we can't condemn it in the name of the Mahabharata, which is comprised of a series of alternating murders, rather like the Iliad!"-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
"So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World's fairs w…"-René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes
