The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World
By: Matthew Stewart
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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1. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
2. The Spinoza Problem
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.25
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
3. Last and First Men
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clark… read more
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- philosophy
4. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more
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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
5. Parmenides
By: Plato , Keith Whitaker
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues be… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more
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7. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- religion
- history
8. The New Organon
By: Lisa Jardine , Francis Bacon , Michael Silverthorne
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal phi… read more
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9. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World
By: Matthew Stewart
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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- biography
- history
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- european history
- science
10. Heavy Weather
By: Bruce Sterling
3.68
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid i… read more
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11. Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
By: Roger Scruton
3.65
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant a… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
13. Spinoza in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
3.95
Format: 620 pages, Paperback
Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character.… read more
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14. The Discourses
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more
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15. A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
By: Keith Devlin , Paul Lockhart
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."--Keith Devlin, math … read more
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16. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
By: Sam Harris
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more
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17. Spinoza's Ethics: An Introduction
By: Steven Nadler
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of ph… read more
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18. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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19. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.93
Format: 927 pages, Paperback
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing kn… read more
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"he's surprised your tits come wi' a head attached"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Your diligence is setting an example for all of us—stop it!"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you."-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
20. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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21. Monadology
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz , None
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
G.W. Leibniz' Monadology, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of… read more
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22. The Trial of Socrates
By: I.F. Stone
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author … read more
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23. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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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- nonfiction
- science
25. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
26. Led Zeppelin: The Biography
By: Bob Spitz
4.06
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the autho… read more
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- biography
- history
27. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
28. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
29. Fascism: A Warning
By: Madeleine K. Albright
4.25
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
30. Philebus
By: Plato
3.87
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The dialogue discussing the relative merits of lives based on pleasure and intelligence is acccompa… read more
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31. Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
By: Norman Lebrecht
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world—and… read more
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