Ibn Sina (Avicenna): A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Peter Adamson
3.81
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. The Odes of Horace
By: Horatius , David Ferry
4.06
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
The poet-translator whose acclaimed version of Gilgamesh was a finalist for the National Book Criti… read more
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"Carpe diem." (Odes: I.11)"-Horatius, The Odes of Horace
"We are but dust and shadow."-Horatius, The Odes of Horace
"Pulvis et umbra sumus. ( We are but dust and shadow. )"-Horatius, The Odes of Horace
"Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings."-Horatius, The Odes of Horace
3. 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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4. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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5. Second Treatise of Government
By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more
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6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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7. Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more
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8. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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9. Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction
By: Peter Adamson , Peter S. Adamson
3.97
Format: 112 pages,
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10. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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11. Mortality
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more
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12. Kleider machen Leute
By: Gottfried Keller
4.01
Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback
>>Kleider machen Leute<>Die Leute von Seldwyla<<. Aus Seldwyla stammt auch der romantisch veranlagt… read more
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13. Lyrical Ballads
By: William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , None
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly … read more
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14. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
15. How to Be a Conservative
By: Roger Scruton
3.80
Format: 240 pages, ebook
What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in t… read more
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16. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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17. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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18. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
By: Mike Duncan
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more
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19. The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)
By: Mai Mochizuki
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of c… read more
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20. Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
By: Robert Irwin
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaI… read more
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21. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.93
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more
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