12 must-read nonfiction books like Mind and tissue: Russian Research Perspectives on the Human Brain by Raymond Peat

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Mind and tissue: Russian Research Perspectives on the Human Brain

By: Raymond Peat

4.30

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This book offers new perspectives for expanding our scientific traditions. "Mind and Tissue is a…

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1. St. Francis of Assisi

By: G.K. Chesterton , Joseph F. Girzone

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, perhaps the greatest saint in the Christian calendar,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any pr…"

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

"I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like…"

-G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

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2. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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3. City of God

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Format: 1186 pages, Paperback

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

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4. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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5. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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6. Might is Right

By: Ragnar Redbeard

4.12

Format: None pages,

Might is Rightis an unprecedented book by an author of extraordinary virility and rugged primeval f… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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8. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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10. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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11. We Want to Live 2005 Edition

By: Aajonus Vonderplanitz

3.09

Format: None pages,

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  • nutrition
  • nonfiction
  • health

12. The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling

By: Anonymous , William Johnston , Huston Smith

3.69

Format: 176 pages,

Originally written in Middle English by an unknown mystic of the fourteenth century, The Cloud of U… read more

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13. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more

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14. 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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15. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

16. Christ the Eternal Tao

By: Damascene Christensen , None , None

3.46

Format: 272 pages,

This book looks at Christ through the innocent vision of Lao Tzu. People of the modern West have to… read more

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17. Super Imperialism - New Edition: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance

By: Michael Hudson

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students. read more

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18. 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

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19. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

By: Frank Herbert

3.88

Format: 587 pages, Paperback

Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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  • philosophy
"But you invite ..."

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"In the wrong hands,"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"Only fools prefer the past!"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"For what do you hunger, Lord?"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

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20. The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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21. Mind and tissue: Russian Research Perspectives on the Human Brain

By: Raymond Peat

4.30

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This book offers new perspectives for expanding our scientific traditions. "Mind and Tissue is a… read more

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  • health
  • biology
  • nutrition
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science

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Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

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4.29

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4.12

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3.95

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3.79

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