The New Media Epidemic: The Undermining of Society, Family, and Our Own Soul
By: Jean-Claude Larchet
4.26
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. On Wealth and Poverty
By: John Chrysostom , Catharine P. Roth
4.49
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
The sermons of St John Chrysostom are noted as classical commentaries on the Christian life. Knowin… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"This is why God has allowed you to have more: not for you to waste on prostitutes, drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and all other kinds of indolence, but for you to distribute to those in need."-John Chrysostom, On Wealth and Poverty
2. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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- philosophy
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
3. How to Live a Holy Life
By: Gregory Postnikov , Seraphim Englehardt
4.68
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
This pocket-sized book, originally published in Russian in 1904, is a short but comprehensive work … read more
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- religion
4. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- nonfiction
5. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
6. The Great Divorce
By: C.S. Lewis
4.31
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
7. Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
By: Ana Smiljanic , None , Thaddeus of Vitovnica
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica was one of the most renowned spiritual guides of Serbia in the twentiet… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
8. On Christian Doctrine
By: Augustine of Hippo , D.W. Robertson Jr.
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
9. Daphnis and Chloe
By: Paul Turner , Longus
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more
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10. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
By: Gabor Maté
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more
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11. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- philosophy
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
12. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
13. Everyday Saints and Other Stories
By: None
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
More than a million copies and several million electronic versions of this book have sold in less t… read more
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14. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
By: Ernst F. Schumacher
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom." --Newsweek One the 100 mo… read more
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15. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
16. Laurus
By: None , Lisa Hayden
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more
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17. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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- politics
"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
18. The Face of Another
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… read more
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19. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
20. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- technology
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
21. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- technology
22. The Age of Division: Christendom from the Great Schism to the Protestant Reformation
By: John Strickland
4.75
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
If you have ever wondered exactly how we got from the Christian society of the early centuries, uni… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Whole Counsel of God: An Introduction to Your Bible
By: Stephen De Young
4.50
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Whole Counsel of God, popular writer and podcaster Fr. Stephen De Young gives an overview of… read more
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24. Face to Face: Knowing God beyond Our Shame
By: Stephen Freeman
4.68
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
From advertising to social media, from trauma survival to keeping up with the Joneses, shame is dee… read more
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- religion
- psychology
25. Athonite Fathers of the 20th Century, Volume 1
By: Cell of the Resurrection on the Holy Mountain
4.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the lives of twenty-four Athonite Fathers of the twentieth century the reader encounters heaven … read more
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26. The Age of Utopia: Christendom from the Renaissance to the Russian Revolution (Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was Book 3)
By: John Strickland
4.76
Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition
Continuing the epic of Christendom told in earlier volumes, The Age of Paradise and The Age of Divi… read more
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27. The New Media Epidemic: The Undermining of Society, Family, and Our Own Soul
By: Jean-Claude Larchet
4.26
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. Jean-Claude Larchet, renowned for his examinations of the causes and consequences of spiritual … read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- technology
28. The Age of Nihilism: Christendom from the Great War to the Culture Wars (Paradise and Utopia: The Rise and Fall of What the West Once Was Book 4)
By: John Strickland
4.70
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
In this final volume of the series, John Strickland tells the story of Christendom’s most tumultuou… read more
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- religion
29. The Sunflower: Conforming the Will of Man to the Will of God
By: John Maximovitch
4.71
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflower’s, so that even in days o… read more
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30. Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Anger and Meekness
By: Gabriel Bunge
4.41
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Evagrius Ponticus (343 399 AD) spent sixteen years in the desert of Egypt, where he gained the gift… read more
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"So should the one inflamed with anger not pray at all? By no means! But instead of reaching for what is unattainable and even dangerous on account of his passionate condition, he should resort to tho…"-Gabriel Bunge, Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Anger and Meekness
"The above explains why thoughts of acedia [despondency] can appear in apparently such contradictory ways: in the lukewarm, as sluggishness, indifference, and even depression, and in the conscientious…"-Gabriel Bunge, Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Anger and Meekness
31. Patristic Theology: The University Lectures of Father John Romanides
By: John Romanides
4.50
Format: 296 pages, None
What is orthodoxy? Is it a religion? What is the essence of Orthodox Tradition? What are the "two k… read more
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