6 must-read nonfiction books like Shamanism by Piers Vitebsky

Cover of Shamanism by Piers Vitebsky

Shamanism

By: Piers Vitebsky

3.74

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Shamanism by Piers Vitebsky , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

2. 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

Cover of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, James  Wood, Justin Obrien

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

Similar categories in Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus book and Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism

  • nonfiction
  • mythology
"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

Cover of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Serge L. Levitsky

4. 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

Similar categories in Karl Marx's Das Kapital book and Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism

  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. The Three Ecologies

By: Félix Guattari

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as… read more

Similar categories in Félix Guattari's The Three Ecologies book and Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Tim Flannery, Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst, Suzanne Simard

6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism

  • nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

7. The Mabinogion

By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more

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8. Cosmos

By: Witold Gombrowicz , Danuta Borchardt

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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9. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

Similar categories in Elaine N. Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You book and Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism

  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

10. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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12. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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13. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Extracted from Volume 8. A parapsychological study of the meaningful coincidence of events, extrase… read more

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14. Shamanism

By: Piers Vitebsky

3.74

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world … read more

Similar categories in Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism book and Piers Vitebsky's Shamanism

  • history
  • native american
  • psychology
  • paganism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology
  • anthropology

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