The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea
By: M. David Litwa
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblica…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
By: Garth Ennis , Steve Dillon , Joe R. Lansdale
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Comics
Alternate Cover Edition One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is… read more
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"I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!"-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
" Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker! Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a …"-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
3. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati
4.25
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more
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- occult
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"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
4. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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6. Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
By: Robert Graves , Raphael Patai
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This exploration of Hebrew myths & the book of Genesis resulted from a collaboration between a scho… read more
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7. 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
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8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
9. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity
By: James D. Tabor
4.48
Format: 356 pages, ebook
This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals sharply competing ideas … read more
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10. The Dhammapada
By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more
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11. The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken
3.68
Format: 420 pages,
Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more
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12. The Golden Ass
By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more
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13. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
14. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more
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15. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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16. Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
By: William G. Dever
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
Following up on his two recent, widely acclaimed studies of ancient Israelite history and society, … read more
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17. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
By: Richard Bach , Russell Munson
3.85
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get specia… read more
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"Why is it,"-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Keep working on love."-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Imagination is an old soul."-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
18. The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago
By: Robert K.G. Temple
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Convincing evidence that the Egyptian, Sumerian, and Dogon civilizations were founded by aliens fro… read more
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19. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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20. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction
By: Hermes Trismegistus , Brian P. Copenhaver , None
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the revealed wisdom of the Bible, Hermetic philosophy … read more
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21. The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus
By: Marvin W. Meyer
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth For all thos… read more
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22. The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
By: None
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, s… read more
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23. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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24. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
25. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
26. God: An Anatomy
By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more
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"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy
27. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
By: Candida Moss
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more
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28. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return
By: Paul Robichaud
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of … read more
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29. The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea
By: M. David Litwa
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This book examines the origins of the evil creator idea chiefly in light of early Christian biblica… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Dandadan, Vol. 1
By: Yukinobu Tatsu
4.07
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school's UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames "Okar… read more
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