On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
By: Umberto Eco
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On the Shoulders of Giants is a collection of essays based on lectures Eco famously delivered at th…
Want to Read $ 15.37"Reflect before you think."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
"Reflect before you think."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
"With irony we say the opposite of truth."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
"With irony we say the opposite of truth."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
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1. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
2. The Birds and Other Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.39
Format: 440 pages, ebook
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more
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3. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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5. The Complete Stories
By: Franz Kafka , John Updike , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir , James Stern , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Nahum N. Glatzer , None
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Me… read more
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6. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
By: James P. Carse
3.51
Format: None pages,
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7. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
8. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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9. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
10. House of Day, House of Night
By: Olga Tokarczuk , Antonia Lloyd-Jones
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The English translation of the prize-winning international bestseller Winner of the Gunter Grass Pr… read more
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11. Discourse on Method
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more
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12. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
By: Albert Einstein , Robert W. Lawson , Nigel Calder
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According t… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Celestial Bodies
By: Jokha Alharthi
3.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbre… read more
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"Laughter looks so disgusting sometimes."-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
"Como nos sentimos livres, quando já não nos limitamos a ser uma extensão ou uma personificação da fantasia de outra pessoa, mesmo que essa pessoa seja o nosso pai."-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
"I could not believe how much pain was crackling through the air, generated simply by Mayya's being there. Haloes of light embraced that presence. If I were to just put my hand out, I felt, I could to…"-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
"Não tinhas a mínima noção do que é o amor, Mayya? Não sentiste nada do que eu passei enquanto andava à volta da tua casa como um peregrino em volta da Caaba, uma, duas, sete vezes? Como pôde a casa t…"-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
15. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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16. Hoe migratie echt werkt
By: Hein de Haas
4.43
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Migratie-expert Hein de Haas vertelt het ware verhaal over migratie en de effecten ervan. Al jar… read more
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17. Desencajada
By: Margaryta Yakovenko
4.02
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
«Mi pasado había quedado borrado a nivel legal. Yo no tenía partida de nacimiento. De la persona qu… read more
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18. M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa
By: Antonio Scurati
4.28
Format: 848 pages, Kindle Edition
Il 3 maggio 1938, nella nuova stazione Ostiense, Mussolini insieme a Vittorio Emanuele III e al min… read more
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19. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
By: Salman Rushdie
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--… read more
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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a per…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go t…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"Christopher came to believe that the people who understood the dangers posed by radical Islam were on the right, that his erstwhile comrades on the left were arranging with one another to miss what s…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
20. Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America: Essays
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present,… read more
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21. On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
By: Umberto Eco
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On the Shoulders of Giants is a collection of essays based on lectures Eco famously delivered at th… read more
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"Reflect before you think."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
"With irony we say the opposite of truth."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
"Visionaries see only what their culture has taught them to see and allows them to imagine."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
"Constant innovation constantly accepted by everybody will lead to ranks of dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of other dwarfs."-Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures
