The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global
By: Virginia Held
3.81
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories…
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.39
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
3. The Essential Homer
By: Homer , Stanley Lombardo , Sheila Murnaghan
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Selections from both Iliadand Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most promine… read more
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4. 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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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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6. Utilitarianism
By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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8. What Is Art?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
3.73
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Kar… read more
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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, and consequently it is impossible for me to live,"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling th…"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes
By: Ray Bradbury
None
Format: None pages, None
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more
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10. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
11. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is … read more
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12. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- philosophy
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- sociology
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
13. Herland
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more
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14. The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more
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15. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
16. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
17. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
By: Michael Schur
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
18. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
19. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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- theory
- philosophy
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- sociology
"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
20. Out of Love
By: Hazel Hayes
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A novel for anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale. As a young woman boxes up… read more
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"We accept the love we're used to"-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love
"A breakup is like a death without a funeral."-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love
"Crazy is the space between what they tell you and what you know is true."-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love
"The things we think we’re hiding from people, we’re only really hiding from ourselves."-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love
21. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
22. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global
By: Virginia Held
3.81
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories… read more
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23. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
