In Praise of the Bicycle
By: Marc Augé
3.58
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Witness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Augé coined the term “non-…
Want to Read $ 16.62"La ciudad se descentra como se descentran las viviendas y los hogares con la televisión y el ordenador y como se descentrarán los individuos cuando los móviles sean además ordenadores y televisores. Lo urbano se extiende por todas partes, pero hemos perdido la ciudad y al mismo tiempo nos perdemos de vista a nosotros mismos. Ante este panorama, es posible que a la bicicleta le corresponda un papel determinante: ayudar a los seres humanos a recobrar la conciencia de sí mismos y de los lugares que habitan invirtiendo, en lo que corresponde a cada uno, el movimiento que proyecta a las ciudades fuera de sí mismas. Necesitamos la bicicleta para ensimismarnos en nosotros mismos y volver a centrarnos en los lugares en que vivimos."-Marc Augé, In Praise of the Bicycle
"La ciudad se descentra como se descentran las viviendas y los hogares con la televisión y el ordenador y como se descentrarán los individuos cuando los móviles sean además ordenadores y televisores. Lo urbano se extiende por todas partes, pero hemos perdido la ciudad y al mismo tiempo nos perdemos de vista a nosotros mismos. Ante este panorama, es posible que a la bicicleta le corresponda un papel determinante: ayudar a los seres humanos a recobrar la conciencia de sí mismos y de los lugares que habitan invirtiendo, en lo que corresponde a cada uno, el movimiento que proyecta a las ciudades fuera de sí mismas. Necesitamos la bicicleta para ensimismarnos en nosotros mismos y volver a centrarnos en los lugares en que vivimos."-Marc Augé, In Praise of the Bicycle
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1. The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
By: Isabel Greenberg
4.03
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Before our history began, another now forgotten civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early E… read more
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"Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending."-Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
"Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine."-Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
"In the beginning there was nothing, only time. But since there was no one to count the time, there might as well have been nothing. And then there was an egg. Don't ask how it got there, OK."-Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
"Had they known the difficulties that were to befall them, they might not have been so rash in falling in love. But perhaps there was no way of avoiding it. Fate, karma, the will of the Gods… call it …"-Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
2. Miss Lonelyhearts
By: Nathanael West
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more
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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
3. İnsan Olmak
By: Engin Geçtan
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kan… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Los santos inocentes
By: Miguel Delibes
4.12
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Un relato a un tiempo realista, poético y trágico que contiene algunas de las mejores páginas del g… read more
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5. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Walking
By: Henry David Thoreau
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profo… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Difficult Loves
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and g… read more
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9. Una historia sencilla
By: Leila Guerriero
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
En enero del ano 2011, Leila Guerriero viajo hasta un pequeno pueblo del interior de Argentina para… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
10. Trilogia della città di K.
By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more
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11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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13. Levantado do Chão
By: José Saramago
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
"<>(Diario de Noticias, 9 de Outubro de 1998)" read more
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14. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
15. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim
3.56
Format: None pages,
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more
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- nonfiction
16. Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
By: Paul Auster
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureis a fascinating and often funny memoir ab… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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18. Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have reject… read more
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19. Report from the Interior
By: Paul Auster
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. T… read more
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20. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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21. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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- france
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
22. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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- france
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
23. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
24. In Praise of the Bicycle
By: Marc Augé
3.58
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Witness the French anthropologist as we have never seen him before. Marc Augé coined the term “non-… read more
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- cycling
- nonfiction
- france
- sociology
- anthropology
"La ciudad se descentra como se descentran las viviendas y los hogares con la televisión y el ordenador y como se descentrarán los individuos cuando los móviles sean además ordenadores y televisores. …"-Marc Augé, In Praise of the Bicycle
25. Literatura infantil
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.25
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more
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"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
26. Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
3.64
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digita… read more
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- nonfiction
"Tech, for the most part, wasn't progress. It was just business."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"if personalised playlists were full of sad singers and song writers, I could only blame myself for getting algorithm depressed."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"The platforms designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data inspired infinite scroll...people were saying nothing and saying it all the time."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"I felt rising frustration and resentment. I was frustrated because I felt stuck, and I was resentful because I was stuck in an industry that was chipping away at so many things I cared about."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
27. Voyager
By: Nona Fernández
4.22
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
La memoria de las estrellas. La memoria de una madre. Y la de su hija. La memoria de un pueblo. Cóm… read more
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28. Bellies
By: Nicola Dinan
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more
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29. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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30. Energy and Equity
By: Ivan Illich
4.06
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The 'energy crisis' that exists inter… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Rather than asking how the earth’s surface can be preserved for people, they ask how reservations necessary for the survival of people can be established on an earth that has been reshaped for the sa…"-Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
"Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slo…"-Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
"Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings t…"-Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
"Avec un vélo, l'homme peut partager les bienfaits d'une conquête technique sans prétendre régenter les horaires, l'espace ou l'énergie d'autrui. Un cycliste est maître de sa propre mobilité sans empi…"-Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
31. Against Nature (Untimely Meditations)
By: Lorraine Daston
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural or… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
