15 Top nonfiction books like Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A.C. Grayling

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Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live

By: A.C. Grayling

4.05

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A.C. Grayling , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. Up at the Villa

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself co… read more

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3. Money

By: Martin Amis

3.69

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more

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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"

-Martin Amis, Money

4. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

By: William B. Irvine

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more

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5. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction

By: Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at th… read more

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6. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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  • philosophy
"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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7. 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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  • philosophy
  • 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

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8. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

Similar categories in Ian Dunt's How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't book and A.C. Grayling's Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live

  • nonfiction
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10. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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11. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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12. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

Similar categories in Salman Khan's Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) book and A.C. Grayling's Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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13. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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14. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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15. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Left Is Not Woke

By: Susan Neiman

3.61

Format: None pages, ebook

If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."

-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke

"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"

-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke

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17. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

By: Philip Ball

4.28

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"

-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"

-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

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19. Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live

By: A.C. Grayling

4.05

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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21. A Beginner's Guide to Dying

By: Simon Boas

4.42

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

As featured on BBC Radio 4 'Funny and touching' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Full of bo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

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Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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Kara Swisher

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David Brooks

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Charles Duhigg

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