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Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJohn Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in the midst of dramas that, however comic, pose profound questions about conformity and class, pleasure and propriety, and the conduct and meaning of an individual life...Categorized as:
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![Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955–1962 by Vladimir Nabokov]()
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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Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss has clawed his way up the Tory government ranks and is now Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning (H.E.A.P.), and in pursuit of beautiful widow Jenny Sidonia. But seismic changes are afoot in the beautiful countryside where a new town threatens to engulf his own back garden... -
![Agapē Agape by William Gaddis, Joseph Tabbi]()
Agapē Agape by William Gaddis, Joseph Tabbi
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America...Categorized as:
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![1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia]()
1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMoravia's political fable about an Italian anti-Fascist and the frightened, suicide-seeking German girl he encounters on a boat to Capri--the setting of Moravia's Il disprezzo from 1954--was welcomed as one of his finest novels...Categorized as:
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![The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi]()
The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author’s native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury... -
![The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee]()
The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's life... -
![Islam Between East and West by Alija Izetbegović]()
Islam Between East and West by Alija Izetbegović
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIslam between east and west is not a book of theology, it deal with dogmas, institutions and teachings of Islam with the aim of establishing the place of Islam in the general spectrum of ideas... -
![Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks]()
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...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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![The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi]()
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to delve into the minds and motives of oppressors and oppressed alike... -
![The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan]()
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsHow can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic... -
![Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan]()
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us... -
![Modernity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman]()
Modernity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEl Holocausto no fue un acontecimiento singular, ni una manifestación terrible pero puntual de un ‘barbarismo’ persistente, fue un fenómeno estrechamente relacionado con las características propias de la modernidad...Categorized as:
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![The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman]()
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman,from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other...Categorized as:
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![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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![A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari]()
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings‘A rare and remarkable book.' Times Literary SupplementGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Félix Guattari (1930-1992) was a psychoanalyst at the la Borde Clinic, as well as being a major social theorist and radical activist...Categorized as:
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![The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull]()
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBollingen Series XX. Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix...Categorized as:
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![Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin]()
Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does the Right offer to women? How does the Right mobilize women? Why is the Right succeeding in opposing women's rights? With the stark precision and forceful passion that characterize all of her work, Andrea Dworkin answers these timely questions...Categorized as:
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![Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz]()
Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPositive wisdom and helpful insights on how to be a successful person Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery...Categorized as:
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![Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil]()
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman]()
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index... -
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![Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson]()
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsEinstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. In this narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered... -
![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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![Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung, Joseph L. Henderson]()
Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung, Joseph L. Henderson
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMan and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating book. Here, Jung examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams...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... -
![The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson]()
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live...Categorized as:
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![The Power of Awareness illustrated by Victoria Goddard Neville]()
The Power of Awareness illustrated by Victoria Goddard Neville
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2009 Reprint of 1952 first edition. Neville Lancelot Goddard was born in Barbados in 1905. He came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen and whilst touring with his dance company in England he developed an interest in metaphysics, after striking up a conversation with a Scotsman who lent him a series of books on the powers of the mind...Categorized as:
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