Understanding Islam: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places
By: Matthew S. Gordon
3.48
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In a thoughtful exploration of Islam's history, beliefs, and practices, this enlightening book corr…
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1. Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Kim Knott
3.26
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Hinduism is practiced by about 80 percent of India's population, and by about 30 million people out… read more
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- history
- religion
- nonfiction
"Within a Hindu universe the proper ordering of society rather than the desire of the individual was of first importance."-Kim Knott, Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction
"Hinduism is both polytheistic and monotheistic. Both the many and the One have a place within it, and within the common experience of most Hindus themselves."-Kim Knott, Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction
2. Islam Explained
By: Tahar Ben Jelloun , Franklin Philip
3.53
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In an accessible question-and-answer format, Islam Explained clarifies the main tenets of Islam, th… read more
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- religion
- islam
- history
"Don't worry, life is good despite everything!"-Tahar Ben Jelloun, Islam Explained
3. Sostiene Pereira
By: Antonio Tabucchi
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more
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4. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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- religion
5. Follia
By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola
3.96
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more
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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"-Patrick McGrath, Follia
6. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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7. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile
By: Peter Cameron , Giuseppina Oneto
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
James ha 18 anni e vive a New York. Finita la scuola, lavoricchia nella galleria d'arte della madre… read more
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9. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
By: Mary Douglas
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In Purity and DangerMary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of e… read more
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11. The Chosen
By: Chaim Potok
3.89
Format: 384 pages,
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, thei… read more
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12. Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
By: The Boston Globe
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service The story behind this groundbreaking book--one of t… read more
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13. A Christmas Memory
By: Truman Capote
3.27
Format: None pages, Audio CD
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's ru… read more
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14. The Bookseller of Kabul
By: Åsne Seierstad , None
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Asne Seierstad spent four months living with a b… read more
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15. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand
By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more
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17. Homo Faber
By: Max Frisch
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. Dubbed … read more
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18. Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places
By: C. Scott Littleton
3.50
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Shinto provides a succinct, authoritative and accessible introduction to one of the great religious… read more
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19. 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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- nonfiction
"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
20. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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- nonfiction
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
21. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
22. Natale a Parigi
By: Irène Némirovsky
3.08
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
È la vigilia di Natale, e a Parigi la neve cade fitta imbiancando le strade. Ovunque fervono i prep… read more
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23. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
24. Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake, #2)
By: Victoria Schwab
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual. She (plus her ghost best friend, J… read more
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25. Understanding Hinduism : Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places
By: Vasudha Narayanan
3.35
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and accessible introduction to one of the world's most diverse and esteemed religions. One … read more
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- nonfiction
26. Understanding Confucianism
By: Jennifer Oldstone-Moore
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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27. Understanding Islam: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places
By: Matthew S. Gordon
3.48
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In a thoughtful exploration of Islam's history, beliefs, and practices, this enlightening book corr… read more
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- religion
- islam
- history
28. Taoism
By: Jennifer Oldstone-Moore
3.16
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Existing in China alongside Confucianism and Buddhism throughout the centuries, Taoism has had a ma… read more
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