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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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![Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato]()
Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic... -
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Nobel Prize for Literature Classics: The Stranger, the Plague by Albert Camus
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSimplified Chinese edition of two of the best of Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc... -
![The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin]()
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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![Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell]()
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics-for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy-capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim...Categorized as:
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![The Law by Frédéric Bastiat]()
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings• This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography, Footnotes and Index.. • A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. • This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors... -
![Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian]()
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOur Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions—accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences...Categorized as:
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The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
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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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![The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne]()
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMichel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection... -
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The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative; in his words, this is a book of 'exuberance, restlessness, contrariety and April showers'... -
![Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche]()
Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche became one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, whose attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality and philosophy would deeply affect generations of philosophers, psychologists and authors...Categorized as:
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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past... -
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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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![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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![Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Benjamin Jowett]()
Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Benjamin Jowett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Allegory of the Cave...Categorized as:
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![Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno]()
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
![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 Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Wiley]()
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Wiley
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable...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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![O Segundo Sexo: Fatos e Mitos by Simone de Beauvoir]()
O Segundo Sexo: Fatos e Mitos by Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration.Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism... -
![In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola]()
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film...Categorized as:
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![To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche by Erich Fromm]()
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche by Erich Fromm
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTo Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm...Categorized as:
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![Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault]()
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978... -
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![The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham]()
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto...Categorized as:
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![A Secular Age by Charles Taylor]()
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlmost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over the years. This book takes up the question of what these changes mean—of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others...Categorized as:
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![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
![Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire]()
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
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![The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek]()
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors... -
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The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin...Categorized as:
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