How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
By: Alex Rosenberg
3.30
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. …
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1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
3.95
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more
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"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
By: Peter Pomerantsev
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Bec…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all the time. There's like several "you"s.' Seen from this pers…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"That unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace. One time I see a poster advertising a new property development that captures the tone nicely. Got up in the style of Nazi propaganda, it shows two Germ…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
3. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
By: Nir Eyal
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
By: David Perlmutter , Kristin Loberg
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Perlmutter, the devastating truth about the effects o… read more
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5. Factotum
By: Charles Bukowski
3.93
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more
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"عشق به درد آدمهای واقعی میخورد."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
6. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- philosophy
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
7. Chasm City
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more
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8. Wittgenstein’s Nephew
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.03
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more
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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
9. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
10. 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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11. Maxims
By: François de la Rochefoucauld , Leonard Tancock
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire an… read more
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12. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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13. The Right to Be Lazy
By: Paul Lafargue , None
4.28
Format: None pages,
Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, e… read more
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14. A Study in Scarlet
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is t… read more
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15. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By: Walter Isaacson
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people k… read more
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16. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
17. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
18. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- audiobook
19. The Way of Edan (The Edan Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip Chase
3.92
Format: 539 pages, Kindle Edition
The Kingdom of the Eternal will awaken when the Way of Edan holds sway over all of Eormenlond. So s… read more
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20. The Prophet of Edan (The Edan Trilogy, #2)
By: Philip Chase
4.24
Format: 713 pages, Kindle Edition
Ruin follows in the wake of Torrlond’s victorious army and the beasts its priests enslave, leaving … read more
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21. The Sandman: Act III
By: Dirk Maggs
4.51
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In Act III, we follow Morpheus on a grand journey to take care of family business. He visits with h… read more
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22. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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- philosophy
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- sociology
- audiobook
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
23. The War of the Poor
By: Éric Vuillard
3.38
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ W… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust."-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"El martirio es una trampa para los oprimidos, sólo es deseable la victoria. Yo la contaré."-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"And even if you don't give a shit whether or not the Chinese painter of rocks and birds had some mysterious kinship of the soul with the Landgrave of Hesse, fantasies are nonetheless one path to the …"-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
"No me creo nada. En esas leyendas infames, la cerviz de los renegados sólo se doblega en el momento en que se les retira la palabra. Esas leyendas sólo pretenden que resuene en nosotros la voz que no…"-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor
24. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
By: Jared Diamond
3.90
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
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"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
25. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
26. Lurking: How a Person Became a User
By: Joanne McNeil
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of vi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
27. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Studies in Continental Thought)
By: Martin Heidegger
4.16
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
Offers an assessment of Kant's thought. This title talks about the problem of how the author propos… read more
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28. The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
By: Timothy Tackett
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillo… read more
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29. The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
By: David Robert Grimes
4.26
Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition
THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'An unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to rea… read more
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30. Ideas
By: Edmund Husserl
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presents Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in which he seeks to found an a priori science in w… read more
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31. How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
By: Alex Rosenberg
3.30
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. … read more
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