The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
3.71
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The cosmopolitan political tradition defines people not according to nationality, family, or class …
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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. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
4. The Oxford History of the French Revolution
By: William Doyle
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This second edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the French Revolution dr… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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6. The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought Da… read more
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7. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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8. The Naked Sun (Robot #2)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more
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9. Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
By: Edith Hall
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Pa… read more
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10. Canne al vento
By: Grazia Deledda , Angela Cerinotti
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Unica donna insignita dal Nobel nell'ambito della letteratura italiana e autrice di più di cinquant… read more
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"...siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento."-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento
"Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse like little clouds around the moon when the wind b…"-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento
"The feast lasted nine days, the last three becoming a continuous circle dance accompanied by songs and music. Noemi always stayed on the belvedere among the banquet remains. ... No, she didn't dance,…"-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento
"Eccola dunque col pensiero laggiù. Le par d’essere ancora fanciulla, arrampicata sul belvedere del prete, in una sera di maggio. Una grande luna di rame sorge dal mare, e tutto il mondo pare d’oro e …"-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento
11. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
12. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
By: Geoffrey West
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more
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14. What Kind of Creatures Are We?
By: Noam Chomsky
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of… read more
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15. Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
To flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependen… 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. The Robots of Dawn (Robot #3)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonizatio… read more
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18. Perpetual Peace
By: Immanuel Kant
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Vers la paix perpetuelle parut en 1795. L'ouvrage, qui eut un grand succes, venait clore un mouveme… read more
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19. Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
By: Seneca , James Romm
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne ("Gripping . . . the narrative ve… read more
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20. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
By: Immanuel Kant , None
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text. 1. Idea for a Universal History … read more
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21. Autobiography
By: Morrissey
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder … read more
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22. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
23. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
24. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
25. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
26. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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27. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more
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"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
28. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
By: Jeffrey Rosen
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how… read more
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"If you had to sum it up in one sentence, the classical definition of the pursuit of happiness meant being a lifelong learner, with a commitment to practicing the daily habits that lead to character i…"-Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
29. The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
3.71
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The cosmopolitan political tradition defines people not according to nationality, family, or class … read more
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30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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