Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Matthew T. Kapstein
3.48
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development. During …
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Moonglow
By: Michael Chabon
3.80
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon… read more
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"...When were they happy?" "In the cracks?" I said. "In the cracks."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
"I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it."-Michael Chabon, Moonglow
3. The Dying Animal
By: Philip Roth
3.62
Format: 156 pages,
'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you con… read more
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"Maybe it's still a bit of an affront to people, to fail to abide by the old clock of life."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more."-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
"The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And …"-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
4. The Winter of Our Discontent
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw
4.01
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more
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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
5. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
6. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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7. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
8. Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
By: Thomas Dixon
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by pol… read more
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9. Big Sur
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more
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10. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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11. Red Sorghum
By: Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt
3.63
Format: None pages,
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks th… read more
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12. A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more
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13. 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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14. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
By: Fritjof Capra
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. T… read more
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15. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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16. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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17. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
By: Diogenes Laërtius
3.80
Format: 654 pages,
Bks 1-7: Ionian Philosophy Bk 1: The Seven Sages Thales, Solon, Chilon, Pittacus, Bias, Cleobulus, … read more
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18. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.32
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering an… read more
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"Everything is in your own heart."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"The greatest miracle is to be alive."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
"The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence."-Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
19. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeologic… read more
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20. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
21. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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22. Eat the Buddha
By: Barbara Demick
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick. read more
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23. Freud for Beginners
By: Richard Appignanesi , Oscar Zárate
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and … read more
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24. 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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25. Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a … read more
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26. The History of Philosophy
By: A.C. Grayling
4.08
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some o… read more
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27. Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons
By: Catra Corbett
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"This is a story you’ll love and never forget."—Christopher McDougall, author, Born to Run and Natu… read more
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28. The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well
By: Julian Baggini
3.87
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers Davi… read more
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29. Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe (Hot Science)
By: Brian Clegg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. Th… read more
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30. Hume: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: James A. Harris
3.53
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figure… read more
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31. Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Matthew T. Kapstein
3.48
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development. During … read more
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