Language and Power
By: Norman Fairclough
4.02
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
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1. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.76
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- academic
"The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake."-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
"c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)"-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
"Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds rev…"-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
"Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were …"-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.94
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventuall… read more
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"I’ve remained a virgin for you."-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"مايؤلمني في الموت هو ألا أموت حبا"-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"Be calm. God awaits you at the door."-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."-Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- philosophy
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
6. The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Forrest Williams , Robert Kirkpatrick
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in France in 1937, this important essay marked a turning point in Sartre's philosop… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
8. Man and His Symbols
By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman
4.19
Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
9. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
10. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
12. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
By: Jürgen Habermas , Frederick G. Lawrence , Frederick Lawrence
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"Destined to be the most widely discussed intervention into the increasingly heated controversy ove… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
13. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
14. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
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"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
15. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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16. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
By: Mikhail Bakhtin , Michael Holquist , None
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of R… read more
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17. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
18. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
19. Language and Symbolic Power
By: John Thompson , Pierre Bourdieu , None , None
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relat… read more
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20. Effi Briest
By: Theodor Fontane , Douglas Parmée
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's… read more
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"Wir müssen verführerisch sein, sonst sind wir gar nichts."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
"For they’re ’uman too, even if they are Chinese, so I suppose it’s just the same for them as it is for us."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
"Warum sollte ich ihn nicht lieben? [...] Ich liebe alle, die´s gut mit mir meinen und gütig gegen mich sind und mich verwöhnen."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
"Ich liebe dich ja… wie heißt es doch, wenn man einen Zweig abbricht und die Blätter abreißt? Von Herzen, mit Schmerzen, über alle Maßen."-Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest
21. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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22. Daughter of Fortune
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-… read more
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"حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة"-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo"-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile."-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
23. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
By: Marcel Mauss
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A brilliant example of the comparative method,The Gift presents the first systematic study of the c… read more
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24. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- philosophy
"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
25. Unperfect
By: Susie Tate
4.06
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
When Mia shows up for the interview at a well-known architecture firm, she only has 27p, a squashed… read more
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26. Snapdragon
By: Kat Leyh
4.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’… read more
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27. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
28. 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
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"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
29. Language and Power
By: Norman Fairclough
4.02
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Language in Social Life is a major series which highlights the importance of language to an underst… read more
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- academia
- linguistics
- language
- politics
- research
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- reference
- sociology
30. Ideology: A Multidisciplinary Approach
By: Teun A. van Dijk
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The definition of ideology continues to occupy scholars across a wide range of disciplines. In this… read more
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- philosophy
- sociology
31. Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event
By: Stanton Wortham
3.40
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
In its first edition, winner of the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize from the Society for Linguistic An… read more
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