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The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis new edition presents The Grand Inquisitor together with the preceding chapter, Rebellion, and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitled The Russian Monk...Categorized as:
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Beginners by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . .Categorized as:
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![Notes from Underground & The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
Notes from Underground & The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA single, tormented, character dominates both of these short novels written at different stages of Dostoyevsky's career..Title: .Notes from Underground the Double..Author: .Dostoyevsky, Fyodor..Publisher: .Penguin Group USA..Publication Date: .1972/06/01..Number of Pages: .287..Binding Type: .PAPERBACK..Library of Congress:...Categorized as:
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The Fool of New York City: A Novel by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in present day Manhattan, The Fool of New York City is the tale of two souls who are considered to be -fools- and -idiots- in the eyes of most people they encounter.One is a literal giant, the other an amnesiac who believes he is the 17th century Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, hundreds of years old, aging more slowly than the rest of the human race... -
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![The Double and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Double and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler...Categorized as:
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![Eternal Husband, And Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
Eternal Husband, And Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. One of the esteemed Russian author's most powerful and accessible tales, it employs his favorite themes of mental torture and neurosis. Captivating and highly revealing, it explores love, guilt, and hatred...Categorized as:
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The Seducer's Diary by Edna Hatlestad Hong, Howard Vincent Hong
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Seducer's Diary records Johannes's discovery of a girl with the Shakespearean name Cordelia, whom he sets out to control. Intricately, meticulously, cunningly, the seduction proceeds. No detail is too small to escape Johannes. "She sits on the sofa by the tea table and I sit on a chair at her side. This position has an intimate quality and at the same time a detaching dignity...Categorized as:
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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives...Categorized as:
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Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOutstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity...Categorized as:
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Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsDescribes one man's transformation upon his acceptance of the principles of Yoga & gives a modern restatement of the importance of the spiritual side of human nature. Illustrated...Categorized as:
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
![The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks]()
The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other—and that the world needs both...Categorized as:
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Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIncorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe’s original translation Footnoted remarks in the earlier...Categorized as:
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Enchiridion by Epictetus
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHandbook of Epictetus also known as Enchiridion written by legendary Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus is a manual of Stoic ethical advice. Compiled by Arrian, who was a student of Epictetus, this great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, the Handbook of Epictetus is required reading for various courses and curriculums...Categorized as:
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![Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success by Napoleon Hill, Mark Victor Hansen]()
Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success by Napoleon Hill, Mark Victor Hansen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNapoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale has never been published, considered too controversial by his family and friends... -
![Essential Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson]()
Essential Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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![The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino]()
The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'The greatest miracle in the world' contains the Memorandum from God to you. A great inspirational writer tells his story - a narrative that will hold you spellbound as it reveals exciting new secrets for your personal happiness and success...Categorized as:
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun, Danyal Nicholson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWritten by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology, demography, and cultural history. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, historiography, the philosophy of history, economics, political theory, and ecology... -
![Symbols of Transformation by C.G. Jung]()
Symbols of Transformation by C.G. Jung
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1911 Jung published a book of which he says: '...it laid down a programme to be followed for the next few decades of my life.' It was vastly erudite and covered innumerable fields of study: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnology and comparitive religion amongst others... -
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The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few writers in any age were so full of ideas," and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted...Categorized as:
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![The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry by Stephen Mitchell]()
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry by Stephen Mitchell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to Mitchel's bestselling translation of Tao Te Ching• The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao-tzu • The Bhagavad Gita • Chuang-tzu • The Odes of Solomon • Seng-ts'an • Han-shan • Li Po • Tu Fu • Layman P'ang • Kukai • Tung-shan • Symeon the New Theologian •...Categorized as:
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![Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life by Eknath Easwaran]()
Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life by Eknath Easwaran
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWritten by a highly respected teacher who taught meditation for over forty years, this book gives you all you need to start meditating. With quiet humor, realism, and warmth, Easwaran gives clear instructions and points out the pitfalls. He explains the theory underlying meditation, and conveys the deep joy, security, and selfless energy that regular practice can bring...Categorized as:
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![Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche]()
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHuman, All Too Human (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner, and establishes the overall framework of his later philosophy...Categorized as:
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Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead...Categorized as:
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![A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran]()
A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual you are left... with a foolish grin" -E.M. CioranE.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He focuses on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science... -
![Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper]()
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans...Categorized as:
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![The World As Will And Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer]()
The World As Will And Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsExcerpt:If the intellect were not of a subordinate nature, as the two preceding chapters show, then everything which takes place without it, i.e...Categorized as:
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![Fear and Trembling/Repetition by Søren Kierkegaard, Edna Hatlestad Hong]()
Fear and Trembling/Repetition by Søren Kierkegaard, Edna Hatlestad Hong
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found herePresented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, "Fear and Trembling and Repetition" are the most poetic and personal of Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings...Categorized as:
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical...Categorized as:
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![The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali by Satchidananda, Patañjali]()
The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali by Satchidananda, Patañjali
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path...Categorized as:
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