Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
By: Agnes Callard
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we suc…
Want to Read $ 15.65"Aspirants open themselves up to a distinctive experience of losing everything without seeming to have lost anything at all."-Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
"Aspirants open themselves up to a distinctive experience of losing everything without seeming to have lost anything at all."-Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
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1. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
By: Joe Studwell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more
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2. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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3. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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4. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
By: Oscar Wilde
4.30
Format: None pages,
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5. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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6. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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- theory
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8. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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9. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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10. Principles: Life and Work
By: Jeremy Bobb , Ray Dalio
3.99
Format: None pages, Audio CD
#1 New York Times Bestseller "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." … read more
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11. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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12. Two Treatises of Government
By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more
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13. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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15. Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
By: Martha N. Beck
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationsh… read more
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16. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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17. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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18. On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Genealogy of Morals consists of three essays exploring morality and its origins where Nietzsche… read more
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19. Beauty and Sadness
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more
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20. Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
By: Craig Groeschel
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
MORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD! Are your thoughts out of control--just like your life? Do you long t… read more
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21. 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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- philosophy
"[...] 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
22. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- psychology
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- self help
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
23. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
24. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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25. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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26. Un apartamento en Urano
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more
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"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
27. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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28. The Second Body
By: Daisy Hildyard
3.63
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in the possession of a physical body, a… read more
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29. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
By: Carl Zimmer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more
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30. Transformative Experience
By: L.A. Paul
3.53
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect t… read more
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31. Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
By: Agnes Callard
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we suc… read more
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- self help
"Aspirants open themselves up to a distinctive experience of losing everything without seeming to have lost anything at all."-Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
