Written Lives by Javier Marias
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo o ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This revelatory new translation by strips Thus Spoke Zarathustra down to its foundations in Gothic horror, and discovers a much darker book than previously understood. Not content to focus erringly on God is dead, this new translation sings a dithyramb to the earth at the same time as it mercilessly hun ...Show more
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (TPB) (EE) by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
The Power of Bad: And How to Overcome It by John Tierney; Roy F. Baumeister
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Category: Classics
Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake? The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of bad. As John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister show, we are wired to react to bad events more ...Show more
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: English Library | Reading Level: very good
Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, hi ...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
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.
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman
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Category: Classics
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You c ...Show more
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
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Category: Classics
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric ...Show more
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: Classics
The definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl- History of a TragedyFor more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more