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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published in 1906, this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W.J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernised, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs.The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C... -
![The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse by Ayfer Tunç]()
The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse by Ayfer Tunç
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe novel opens in a provincial mental health hospital on the morning of the 14th February 2007 and comes to a cataclysmic end several hours later Lacklustre guest speaker (‘Love: Self-sacrifice? Or Self-preservation?’) Ülkü Birinci fails to impress the Medical Director, whose plans to write the history of the hospital are destined to remain stillborn... -
![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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Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962 by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.Lolita (1955), Nabokov’s single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books of its time...Categorized as:
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Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA humorous story about a manipulative mother's attempts to arrange a marriage between her beautiful daughter and a wealthy elderly nobleman. The story provides an brilliant insight into the desperation, psychology, gossip, and rivalry of provincial merchants trying to better their position in life... -
![Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is an audio presentation of Dostoevsky's short story "Another Man's Wife, or, The Husband Under the Bed," with occasional clarifying commentary from the reader... -
![What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh]()
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs this even a question?What is a woman? For months, Matt Walsh devoted nearly every waking hour to answering this simple question. Honestly, it’s a question he never thought he’d have to ask.But all of a sudden, way too many people don’t seem to know the answer... -
![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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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
![The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman]()
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratings, this guide also features twelve monthly themes (and helpful glossary) for clarifying perception, improving action, and unlocking the power of will. Aimed at the high-octane, action-oriented doers of our wired world, this book brings new daily rituals and new perspectives to produce balanced action, insight, effectiveness, and serenity... -
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The Story of Civilization [Volumes 1 to 11] by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVol 1 Our Oriental HeritageVol 2 The Life of GreeceVol 3 Caesar and ChristVol 4 The Age of FaithVol 5 The RenaissanceVol 6 The ReformationVol 7 The Age of Reason BeginsVol 8 The Age of Louis XIVVol 9 The Age of VoltaireVol 10 Rousseau and RevolutionVol 11 The Age of... -
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The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the best-selling classic regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers! The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America... -
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The Complete Works: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 & 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle... -
![Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault]()
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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![Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core... -
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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... -
![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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![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... -
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What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articlesabout everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination...Categorized as:
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Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsExcerpt from Discourses of Epictetus Thus we owe to an accident the existence of these "Discourses," which form one of the world's vital books. The "Manual" is a collection of aphorisms taken substantially from the larger work. Epictetus was not the founder of a new philosophy... -
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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... -
![Dramaqueen: Frauen zwischen Beurteilung und Verurteilung by Tara-Louise Wittwer]()
Dramaqueen: Frauen zwischen Beurteilung und Verurteilung by Tara-Louise Wittwer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLaut zu sein ist immer auch ein bisschen unangenehm, vor allem als Frau. Da wird man schnell mal als »hysterisch« oder »dramatisch« abgestempelt... -
![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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Nigger by Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night.. -
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The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.C. in the Ancient Near East...Categorized as:
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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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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Edward O. Wilson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"Harvard University Press is proud to announce the re-release of the complete original version of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis--now available in paperback for the first time... -
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination.Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus-was to be worshipped as a god...Categorized as:
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