An Experiment in Leisure
By: Marion Milner
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going…
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. 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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- 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
4. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosop… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
5. La mujer justa
By: Sándor Márai , None
3.38
Format: None pages,
Tres voces, tres puntos de vista, tres sensibilidades diferentes para desentranar una historia de p… read more
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6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
7. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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8. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
By: Mason Currey
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more
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- nonfiction
9. Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
By: Anne McCaffrey
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
It was not Threadfall that made Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be … read more
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10. A Life of One's Own
By: Marion Milner , Joanna Field
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
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11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- nonfiction
14. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
15. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
By: Hiro Arikawa
4.34
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old a… read more
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"Guddo rakku!"-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
"Because it was only natural to feel sad."-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
"Realmente, o ser humano é um bicho esquisito. - Nana"-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
"- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família."-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles
16. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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- nonfiction
"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
17. Vladimir
By: Julia May Jonas
3.44
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more
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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
18. An Experiment in Leisure
By: Marion Milner
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- psychology
