Introduction to Systems Theory
By: Niklas Luhmann
4.20
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
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1. 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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"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
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society
By: Jürgen Habermas , Thomas A. McCarthy
3.91
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
A major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique … read more
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3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. دایی جان ناپلئون
By: None , Iraj Pezeshkzad
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, m… read more
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5. Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
By: Benedict Wells
4.38
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Jules und seine beiden Geschwister wachsen behütet auf, bis ihre Eltern bei einem Unfall ums Leben … read more
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"De eenzaamheid in ons kunnen we alleen samen overwinnen."-Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
"Er waren dingen die ik niet kon zeggen, alleen schrijven. Want als ik praatte, dacht ik en als ik schreef, voelde ik."-Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
"Ik vraag me af wanneer alles verkeerd begon te lopen en of het misschien al vanaf het begin de verkeerde kant op is gegaan."-Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
"Aber in ihrer Gegenwart habe ich zum ersten Mal die Stille in mir genossen. Sie war wie eine kalte Hand auf einer heißen Stirn."-Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
6. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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7. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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8. The Big Five for Life
By: John P. Strelecky
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
This book will inspire you. It will change your life in ways you can't know now, but you'll underst… read more
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9. Elefant
By: Martin Suter
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Ein Wesen, das die Menschen verzaubert: ein kleiner rosaroter Elefant, der in der Dunkelheit leucht… read more
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10. De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more
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11. The Art of Happiness
By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach
4.19
Format: 294 pages, ebook
New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more
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12. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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13. Between Facts & Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law & Democracy
By: Jürgen Habermas , William Rehg
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"[A] fascinating synthesis of Continental and Anglo-American legal theory. . . full of interesting … read more
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15. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
16. The Complete Poetry
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Jay Parini
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works… read more
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17. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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18. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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19. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
By: Octavio Paz , Lysander Kemp , Yara Milos
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this internationa… read more
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20. Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
By: Martin Suter
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Starwirtschaftsanwalt Urs Blank, funfundvierzig, Fachmann fur Fusionsverhandlungen, hat seine Gefuh… read more
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21. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
22. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
23. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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24. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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25. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more
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26. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
27. New Rules of Sociological Method: Second Edition
By: Anthony Giddens
3.81
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
This is a new and revised edition of a book which has established itself as a basic text in social … read more
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28. Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)
By: Lorraine Daston
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. … read more
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29. Introduction to Systems Theory
By: Niklas Luhmann
4.20
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentiet… read more
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30. Sortiermaschinen: Die Neuerfindung der Grenze im 21. Jahrhundert
By: Steffen Mau
3.80
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Die Neuerfindung der Grenze im 21. Jahrhundert Der kosmopolitische Traum von einer grenzenlosen … read more
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31. Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy
By: Nadia Urbinati
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
ما الذي يميّز الشعبوية عن السياسات الديموقراطية الاعتيادية؟ ولماذا ينبغي أن نشعر بالقلق إزاء صعودها؟… read more
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