The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
By: Pierre Hadot
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic wo…
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1. Luces de bohemia: Esperpento
By: None , Alonso Zamora Vicente , Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
3.71
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Valle-Inclán escribió, en 1920, esta obra, con la que quedó inaugurada una nueva manera de ver la r… read more
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"España, en su concepción religiosa, es una tribu del Centro de África."-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento
"En España podrá faltar el pan, pero el ingenio y el buen humor no se acaban"-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento
"Mi nombre es Máximo Estrella. Mi seudónimo, Mala Estrella. Tengo el honor de no ser Académico."-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento
"El periodismo es travesura, lo mismo que la política. Son el mismo círculo en diferentes espacios."-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento
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. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
By: Thomas Nagel
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Mind and CosmosThomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism… read more
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4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
5. Utilitarianism
By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more
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6. The Revolt of the Masses
By: José Ortega y Gasset
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by th… read more
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7. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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8. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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9. Filosofía y poesía
By: María Zambrano
4.10
Format: None pages,
Este ensayo, concebido por Maria Zambrano en 1939 durante su exilio en Mexico, la autora reflexiona… read more
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10. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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11. Castellio contra Calvino: Conciencia contra violencia
By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
"Tolerancia frente a intolerancia, libertad frente a tutela, humanismo frente a fanatismo, individu… read more
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12. 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
13. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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16. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
17. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
By: Rutger Bregman
4.22
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more
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"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
18. Tragedias
By: Esquilo
4.08
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Tragedias de Esquilo. Contiene:Los persas (472 a. C.)Los siete contra Tebas (467 a. C.)Las suplican… read more
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"El futuro, cuando suceda, lo oirás. De momento déjalo correr, no llores antes de hora, pues claramente llegará con los rayos de la aurora."-Esquilo, Tragedias
19. The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the hea… read more
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"De chemische bestanddelen van verschillende bloemengeuren stimuleren bepaalde stemmingen en beïnvloeden hoe alert of juist ontspannen we ons voelen. Zo is recent gebleken dat lavendel, waarvan de kal…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
"Zelfs de kleinste wezens beschikken over een zenuwstelsel dat dopamine of aanverwante moleculen nodig heeft om tot zoek- en verzamelgedrag aan te zetten. De menselijke zenuwbanen zijn wellicht een co…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
20. The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
By: Pierre Hadot
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic wo… read more
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