Capitalism and the Historians
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.95
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
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1. The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
By: David D. Friedman
4.09
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
This book argues the case for a society organized by private property, individual rights, and volun… read more
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"If almost everyone is in favor of feeding the hungry, the politician may find it in his interest to do so. But, under those circumstances, the politician is unnecessary: some kind soul will give the …"-David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
"Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each perso…"-David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
2. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
By: John Taylor Gatto
4.15
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"… nothing important can ever really be boring."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
3. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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- philosophy
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
4. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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- economics
5. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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7. The Paltinis Diary
By: Gabriel Liiceanu
3.91
Format: 20 pages, Hardcover
The intellectual resistance to totalitarian regimes can take many forms. This remarkable volume por… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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9. Poor Folk
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.78
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the f… read more
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- philosophy
"ويقال إنّ الفتى بوكروفسكي يشبه أمه كما تشبه قطرة من الماء قطرة من الماء."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
"أضرع إليك مرة أخرى: لا تنفق في سبيلي كل هذا الذي تنفقه. أنا أعرف أنك تحبني كثيرًا، ولكنك لست غنيًا."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
"أوهام إنه ليتفق للمرء أن يخطئ تقدير ما يشعر به هو نفسه، وأن يسترسل في ترهات سخيفة. والذنب في ذلك كله انما هو ذنب هذا الطيش في قلبنا المندفع"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
"لماذا تعيش النفوس الطيبة النبيلة في الشقاء والهجران، بينما لا يحتاج غيرها حتى إلى البحث عن السعادة لأن السعادة هي التي تلقي بنفسها بين ذراعيه؟"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk
10. Omon Ra
By: Victor Pelevin , Andrew Bromfield
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Rahas been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in… read more
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12. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
13. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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- economics
"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
14. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
15. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
16. Deschooling Society
By: Ivan Illich , None
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. I… read more
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17. On Human Nature
By: Roger Scruton
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short… read more
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18. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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19. Platform
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more
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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
20. End the Fed
By: Ron Paul
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a seri… read more
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21. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
22. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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23. Enigma Otiliei
By: George Călinescu
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tanarul Felix Sima vine de la Iasi la tutorele sau, Costache Giurgiuveanu, la Bucuresti, ca sa ince… read more
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24. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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25. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
By: Thomas C. Leonard
4.11
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In "Illiberal Reformers," Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and refor… read more
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26. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
By: Bryan Caplan
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this ex… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
"Once everyone can enrich their souls for free, government subsidies for enrichment forfeit their rationale. To object, 'But most people don't use the Internet for spiritual enrichment' is actually a …"-Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
27. Capitalism and the Historians
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.95
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distort… read more
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- government
- economics
28. Historia irreverente del arte: De la caída del Imperio romano de occidente al final de la Edad Media
By: Alberto Garín
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Este libro no es una historia del arte al uso. Tampoco es un recorrido por las grandes obras del ar… read more
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