A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000
By: Michel Beaud
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible s…
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1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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5. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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6. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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7. The Devil
By: Leo Tolstoy
3.43
Format: 42 pages,
After talking to Samokhin, Eugene returned to the house as depressed as if he had committed a crime… read more
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8. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. A Companion to Marx's Capital
By: David Harvey
4.05
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx'… read more
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10. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
11. In the Penal Colony
By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more
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12. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
13. Why Marx Was Right
By: Terry Eagleton
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism i… read more
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14. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
15. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
16. 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
17. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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18. How Propaganda Works
By: Jason F. Stanley
3.55
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News com… read more
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"Perhaps most disturbingly for me, when I look upon my own discipline, the discipline of philosophy, I find egregious effects of ideology and propaganda. Philosophy is self-consciously devoted to the …"-Jason F. Stanley, How Propaganda Works
19. A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000
By: Michel Beaud
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible s… read more
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