Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Classics | Series: FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelagois Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven ...Show more
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
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Category: Classics
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.
Discourses and Selected Writings by EPICTETUS
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Category: Classics
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ide ...Show more
The Rebel by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin's classic treatise on his theory of evolution and natural selection and is among the most important works in the history of science and evolutionary biology. When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of ...Show more
Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo by FREIDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Translated by Antony M. Ludovici. With an Introduction by Ray Furness. The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet (together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch) ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Classics
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic by Seneca, Donald Robertson
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Category: Classics | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Throughout the centuries, Seneca has been admired as one of the greatest writers of antiquity. He has a way of expressing Stoic philosophy that makes it seem just as relevant to life today as it was two thousand years ago. Seneca taught that we should remain grounded in the present moment by being fully ...Show more
King and Emperor - A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet L. Nelson
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Category: Classics
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called 'Charles the Great'- by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long rei ...Show more
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear di ...Show more