Thomas Paine’s Common Sense; and Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
By: George H. Smith
3.77
Format: None pages, None
Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws and how this right of …
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1. Arthur Schopenhauer (The Giants of Philosophy)
By: Mark Stone , Charlton Heston , Mark Stone
3.49
Format: 2 pages, Audio CD
Schopenhauer emphasized the dark aspects of existence. Evil, pain and suffering are not aberration:… read more
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- philosophy
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- history
2. The Theory of the Leisure Class
By: Thorstein Veblen , Alan Wolfe
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen's work is as fresh and relevant a… read more
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- politics
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"The earlier and cruder method of advertisement held its ground so long as the public to which the exhibitor had to appeal comprised large portions of the community who were not trained to detect deli…"-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
"The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Th…"-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
"The effect of the pecuniary interest and the pecuniary habit of mind upon the growth of institutions is seen in those enactments and conventions that make for security of property, enforcement of con…"-Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
3. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
4. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. The Apothecary's Daughter
By: Julie Klassen
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
LILLY HASWELL REMEMBERS EVERYTHING -- WHETHER SHE WANTS TO, OR NOT ... As Lilly toils in her father… read more
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6. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Simone de Beauvoir
By: Lynn Redgrave , Ladelle McWhorter
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Audio CD
Simone de Beauvoir stands as a towering figure in the twentieth century's flowering of thought amon… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Bertrand Russel and A. N. Whitehead
By: Lynn Redgrave , Paul Grimley Kuntz
3.73
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead coauthored a seminal work in logic entitled Principia Mathemati… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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- nonfiction
10. The Prestige
By: Christopher Priest
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance. From… read more
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11. The Call of the Wild
By: Jack London
3.91
Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more
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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
12. How to Watch TV News
By: Neil Postman , Steve Powers
4.25
Format: None pages,
An important guide to understanding what you're getting--and not getting--from TV news. Postman and… read more
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13. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
14. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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15. Two Treatises of Government - John Locke
By: Wendy McElroy , George H. Smith , Craig Deitschmann
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Audio
An audio lecture which discusses John Locke and his Two Treatises of Government. Two Treatises of G… read more
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16. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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17. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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18. Jean-Paul Sartre:
By: Charlton Heston , John Compton
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Audio CD
Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, is perhaps the best known advocate of existentialism. In th… read more
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19. Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy
By: None
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Audio CD
For centuries, the works of Aristotle and other Greek thinkers were preserved in the Arabic world, … read more
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20. 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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- nonfiction
"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
21. The Girl in His Shadow (Nora Beady, #1)
By: Audrey Blake
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The story of one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her Rais… read more
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22. A Castaway in Cornwall
By: Julie Klassen
3.97
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Laura Callaway daily walks the windswept Cornwall coast, known for many shipwrecks but few survivor… read more
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"He realized it was the first of January, the day many people began the new year with a thorough cleaning. A time for "Out with the old, in with the new." Could Richard do the same to his heart, his w…"-Julie Klassen, A Castaway in Cornwall
23. Maimonides & Medieval Jewish Philosophy
By: Idit Dobbs-Weinstein
3.40
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The first significant Jewish philosopher is recognized as Philo (ca 13 BC - 45/50 AD), who lived in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. William James, Charles Pierce and American Pragmatism
By: James Campbell
3.51
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
C. S. Peirce was an authentic American genius who developed a tough-minded pragmatism and a sweepin… read more
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25. Voltaire and Rousseau (The World of Philosophy)
By: Charles Sherover
3.69
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
***SERIES START*** explanations give you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life! Lyn… read more
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26. Civil Disobedience/The Liberator
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.61
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau's arguments for civil disobedience: the deliberate violation o… read more
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27. The Science of Love
By: Wind Goodfriend
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How can things like the scientific method, experimental design, and statistical analysis be applied… read more
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28. Socrates (The World of Philosophy)
By: Lynn Redgrave
3.80
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
Though he left no written works Socrates was the first great philosopher of the West. His conversat… read more
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29. Duns Scotus and Medieval Christianity
By: Ralph McInerny
3.52
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The Roman Empire became Christian in AD 323; about two centuries later, the rest of Europe began to… read more
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30. Communist Manifesto/Social Contract
By: Ralph Raico
3.28
Format: None pages, Audio CD
This presentation discusses two political documents that have changed history: Karl Marx's Communis… read more
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31. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense; and Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
By: George H. Smith
3.77
Format: None pages, None
Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws and how this right of … read more
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