5 Best philosophy books like How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova by V.F. Cordova

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How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova

By: V.F. Cordova

4.48

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy. Even as she becam…

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1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

By: Nancy MacLean

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more

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"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"

-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

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2. American Indian Myths and Legends

By: Richard Erdoes , Alfonso Ortiz

4.08

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for ISBN: 0394740181, ISBN-13: 9780394740188. This magnificent collectio… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • native american
  • indigenous
"Elderly Cheyenne warriors, weary of the misery and boredom of old age, made elaborate preparations to end their lives in battle. Yet accepting death was also an affirmation of life, for Crazy Horse a…"

-Richard Erdoes, American Indian Myths and Legends

"A tremendous thunderclap was heard, the loudest there has ever been ... The sun remained hidden behind dark clouds, and there was only twilight, gray and misty. Then the earth trembled, and there cam…"

-Richard Erdoes, American Indian Myths and Legends

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3. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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4. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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5. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction

6. The Glass Bead Game

By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more

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7. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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8. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

9. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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10. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

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11. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

12. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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13. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

14. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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15. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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16. Too Hot to Handle (Romancing the Clarksons, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of  Hook, Line, & Sinker  comes "a sparkling rom-com … read more

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"If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you."

-Tessa Bailey, Too Hot to Handle (Romancing the Clarksons, #1)

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17. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

By: J.M. Miro

3.79

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His … read more

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"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."

-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

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19. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and … read more

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"Everywhere we go, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, capitalism follows us."

-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

"Science is supposedly about asking questions, except about scientists and how science is done."

-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

"Access to a dark night sky—to see and be inspired by the universe as it really is—should be a human right, not a luxury for the chosen few."

-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

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20. How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova

By: V.F. Cordova

4.48

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy. Even as she becam… read more

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  • native american
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • native americans
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21. Look To The Mountain: An Ecology Of Indigenous Education

By: Gregory Cajete

4.35

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

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  • native american
  • indigenous
"Who is speaking for the waters of the Earth?"

-Gregory Cajete, Look To The Mountain: An Ecology Of Indigenous Education

"There is no such thing as primitive in the way Western education has traditionally conditioned people to perceive it."

-Gregory Cajete, Look To The Mountain: An Ecology Of Indigenous Education

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Nancy MacLean

4.29

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Richard Erdoes , Alfonso Ortiz

4.08

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Joseph Campbell

3.79

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Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

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Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

4.47

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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

4.15

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Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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