I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
By: René Girard , James G. Williams
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they al…
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. Unbowed
By: Wangari Maathai
4.06
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, t… read more
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- nonfiction
"You don't need a diploma to plant a tree."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"What people see as fearlessness is really persistence."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded..."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
"Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete."-Wangari Maathai, Unbowed
3. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
By: Jean Baudrillard , Chris Turner , George Ritzer
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is the first English-language translation of Jean Baudrillard's contemporary classic on the so… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"انسان تنها از زمانی موضوع علم قرار گرفته است که فروش اتومبیل از ساخت آن دشوارتر شده است."-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
"This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smil…"-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
"You have to try everything, for consumerist man is haunted by the fear of 'missing' something, some form of enjoyment or other. You never know whether a particular encounter, a particular experience …"-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
"از نظر «سالینز»، این جماعت شکارچی-گردآورندهٔ مواد غذایی (قبایل چادرنشین بدوی استرالیا، کالاهاری و غیره) هستند که فراوانی واقعی را علی رغم «فقر» مطلق‌شان تجربه می‌کنند. بدوی‌ها مالک هیچ‌چیز خاصی نیستند…"-Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
4. 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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- theology
- christianity
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- nonfiction
5. The Everlasting Man
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.16
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G… read more
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- theology
- christianity
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- religion
- nonfiction
"Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
6. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- theology
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- nonfiction
7. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
By: René Girard , James G. Williams
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they al… read more
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- theology
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- psychology
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- religion
- nonfiction
- anthropology
8. Introduction to Christianity
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second e… read more
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- theology
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9. Answer to Job
By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull
4.17
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique impor… read more
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- theology
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de tod…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"«El que algo sea una realidad 'física' no es el único criterio de verdad. También existen verdades 'anímicas', las cuales no pueden ni probarse ni explicarse, pero tampoco negarse físicamente. [...] …"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"I would even go so far as to say that the mythical character of a life is just what expresses its universal human validity. It is perfectly possible, psychologically, for the unconscious or an archet…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere inte…"-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job
10. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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11. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
12. Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
By: Seraphim Rose
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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13. On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings
By: Robert L. Wilken , Maximus the Confessor , Paul M. Blowers
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
St Maximus' two main collections of theological reflections-his Ambigua (or "Difficulties") and his… read more
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14. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
By: Richard White , Eric Foner
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American h… read more
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15. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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16. The Worldly Philosophers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more
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17. Interior Freedom
By: Jacques Philippe , None
4.71
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Interior Freedom leads one to discover that even in the most difficult circumstances we possess wit… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt."-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"Te doy gracias, Dios mío, por todo mi pasado; creo firmemente que, de cuanto he vivido, Tú podrás sacar un bien; no quiero tener ningún pesar y desde hoy me decido a recomenzar desde cero con exactam…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"No esperamos que Dios nos haga vivir en plenitud y creamos identidad artificial: el orgullo. O, entre personas de buena voluntad, nos gustaría amar, ser generosos y entregarnos, pero nos vemos atenaz…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"Para que nuestra voluntad sea fuerte y dispuesta, necesita verse alimentada por el deseo. Y ese deseo no puede ser poderoso si lo que se desea no se percibe como posible y accesible; porque, si nos r…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
18. The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis
By: Matthieu Pageau
4.45
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
The Language of Creation is a commentary on the primeval stories from the book of Genesis. It is of… read more
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- christianity
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- nonfiction
19. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- christianity
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- theology
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
20. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
By: Luke Burgis
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more
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21. The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
By: Yascha Mounk
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future... This splendid book is … read more
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- nonfiction
"In this book, a liberal is somebody who is committed to basic values like freedom of speech, the separation of powers, or the protection of individual rights."-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
"In each of these places, they took strikingly similar steps to consolidate their power: they ratcheted up tensions with perceived enemies at home and abroad; packed courts and electoral commissions w…"-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
"Populists are highly skilled at weaponizing these forms of resentment: their rhetoric simultaneously aims to turn the growing anger at affluent people against the ruling elite and to turn the growing…"-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
"Unnoticed by most political scientists, a form of undemocratic liberalism has taken root in North America and Western Europe. In this form of government, procedural niceties are carefully followed (m…"-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
