Voyage of the Beagle
By: Charles Darwin , Janet Browne , Michael Neve
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
s/t: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches When the Beaglesailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- classics
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Marx-Engels Reader
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Robert C. Tucker
3.98
Format: 788 pages, Paperback
This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx … read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself freely in productive activity. He had been driven to produce by need and greed, …"-Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader
"It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as such antitheses in the soc…"-Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader
"Hegel represents history as the self-realization of spirit (Geist) or God. The fundamental scheme of his theory is as follows. Spirit is self-creative energy imbued with a drive to become fully consc…"-Karl Marx, The Marx-Engels Reader
3. The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions
By: David Quammen
3.59
Format: 378 pages,
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
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4. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.07
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Bos… read more
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- biology
- history
- nonfiction
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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995"-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
5. Mary: A Fiction
By: Mary Wollstonecraft
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft… read more
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- classics
6. Hind Swaraj and Other Writings
By: Mahatma Gandhi , Anthony J. Parel , John Dunn , Geoffrey Hawthorn
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work, and a key to the understanding both of his life a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Voyage of the Beagle
By: Charles Darwin , Janet Browne , Michael Neve
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
s/t: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches When the Beaglesailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1… read more
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- nature
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8. Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
By: Norman Lewis
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norm… read more
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9. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
By: Jonathan Weiner
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize On a desert island in the he… read more
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10. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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11. The Old Regime and the French Revolution
By: Stuart Gilbert , Alexis de Tocqueville , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution -- the so-called "Ancien Regime" -- a… read more
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12. The Will to Power
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse in… read more
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13. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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14. The Serpent and the Rainbow
By: Wade Davis
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Hai… read more
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15. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
By: Sidney W. Mintz
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, cla… read more
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16. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
17. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
By: Bernard DeVoto , Wallace Stegner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from expl… read more
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18. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
By: Herman Melville , John Bryant
3.56
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay,… read more
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"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
19. A Bird in the House
By: Margaret Laurence
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and t… read more
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20. On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
By: Elizabeth Hennessy
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably lin… read more
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- history
- nature
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21. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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