Awaiting God: A New Translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre a Un Religieux
By: Simone Weil
4.28
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Awaiting God (218 pages) combines a fresh translation (by Weil scholar, Brad Jersak) of Simone Weil…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
3. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
4. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
By: Mark Wolynn
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer
By: Rowan Williams
4.30
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
In this simple, beautifully written book Rowan Williams explores four essential components of the C… read more
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- religion
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- theology
6. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
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. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
9. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more
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11. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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14. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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15. The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality
By: Kyriacos C. Markides
3.88
Format: 96 pages,
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16. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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17. A Secular Age
By: Charles Margrave Taylor
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over… read more
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18. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
19. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
20. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
21. The Conference of the Birds
By: Attar of Nishapur
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Considered by Rumi to be “the master” of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem… read more
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- philosophy
"El amor ama las cosas difíciles."-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
"چون بلند و پست با هم یار شد آدمی اعجوبه ی اسرار شد"-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
"Quando o amor me subjuga o coração, meu canto é como o suspiroso mar."-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
"في قرارة كل شخص مــائة خنزير...فإما أن يسفك دم الخنزير، أو أن يعقد الزنار"-Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds
22. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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23. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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- nonfiction
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
24. 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
25. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
26. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
27. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
28. Social Creature
By: Tara Isabella Burton
3.36
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, spla… read more
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29. Passions of the Soul
By: Rowan Williams
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches. In Passions of th… read more
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- theology
30. God with Us: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection - Then and Now
By: Rowan Williams
4.38
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
From the pen of one of our greatest living theologians, here is a fresh and compelling introduction… read more
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- theology
31. Awaiting God: A New Translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre a Un Religieux
By: Simone Weil
4.28
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Awaiting God (218 pages) combines a fresh translation (by Weil scholar, Brad Jersak) of Simone Weil… read more
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