Robert's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:26:50 -0700 60 Robert's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Antichrist/Thus Spake Zarathustra]]> 6700688 Friedrich Nietzsche Robert 5 3.92 1883 The Antichrist/Thus Spake Zarathustra
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 84979 Another cover edition for this ISBN

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.]]> 334 Jane Austen 0553213105 Robert 0 to-read 4.36 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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]]> Anna Karenina 155
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens of characters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating a breathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.

From its famous opening sentence � "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”—to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul.]]> 803 Leo Tolstoy 1593080271 Robert 0 to-read 4.00 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> Phaedrus (Hackett Classics) 360882 144 Plato 0872202208 Robert 0 to-read 3.98 -370 Phaedrus (Hackett Classics)
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]]> Wage-Labor and Capital 299173
The text of Wage Labour and Capital came from lectures Marx delivered to the German Workmen's Club of Brussels in 1847, a time of great political upheaval. The relationship between wage-labour to capital is a core concept in Marx's analysis of political economy and its relationship with capitalism. This book is an essential for anyone attempting to understand the development of Marxist theory.

This edition of Wage Labour and Capital is specially formatted with a Table of Contents.]]> 59 Karl Marx 0882860526 Robert 0 to-read 3.87 1891 Wage-Labor and Capital
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]]> Lost Mountain 9112899 Erik Reece 1440611254 Robert 0 4.00 2006 Lost Mountain
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]]> <![CDATA[All Things are Possible Through Prayer]]> 8390605 All Things Are Possible through Prayer is a practical, comforting guide to effective prayer by the best-selling author of God's Psychiatry. Beautifully written, this classic has sold more than 600,000 copies and continues to help Christians grasp the power of prayer, seek God's help, and understand his will. It reminds readers that with God nothing is hopeless.


Allen points out some of the locked doors of life, such as healing and peace of mind, and offers the "prayer-keys" that will open them. Readers will also discover how to surrender desires to God, find confidence and hope, and pray for others. Previously published by Spire, All Things Are Possible through Prayer is now available in a handsome new trade paper format and includes a new preface by the author.

]]> 128 Charles L. Allen 0515088080 Robert 5 to-read 3.83 1960 All Things are Possible Through Prayer
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The first few chapters have heavily influenced my perception of prayer and the way I conduct it. MUST GET BETTER HERE.
]]> Das Kapital 238953 Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, more than one billion Chinese citizens live under a regime that proclaims fealty to Marxist ideology. Yet this important tome has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx’s difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader.

Here Serge Levitsky presents a revised version of Kapital, abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx’s work while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Pointing out Marx’s many erroneous predictions about the development of capitalism, Levitsky's introduction nevertheless argues for Kapital's relevance as a prime example of a philosophy of economic determinism that "subordinates the problems of human freedom and human dignity to the issues of who should own the means of production and how wealth should be distributed."

Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas provided inspiration for communist regimes' ideological war against capitalism, a struggle that helped to shape the world today.]]> 356 Karl Marx 089526711X Robert 0 to-read 3.88 1867 Das Kapital
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]]> The Communist Manifesto 30474 The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property, or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which capitalism is overthrown. Their vision transformed the world irrevocably, and remains relevant as a depiction of global capitalism today.]]> 288 Karl Marx 0140447571 Robert 2 3.67 1848 The Communist Manifesto
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Remnants of the good, but overall Marx is calling for a revolution without a POA, & his theory of history/progress just isn't accurate. It was really difficult for me listening to professors preach that Marx and communism is evil. I'm certain that majority of people are not familiar with this work, yet, give it no respect, and only project what they hear others say. In any event, I feel just in having formed my own thoughts on probably the most widespread doctrine of hate on an unexamined document.
]]> <![CDATA[Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freedom]]> 1856552 272 Germain Grisez 0268006792 Robert 3 currently-reading 3.20 1975 Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series]]> 1760630 51 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1604500093 Robert 4 currently-reading 3.98 1841 Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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]]> Walden or, Life in the Woods 16902 352 Henry David Thoreau Robert 4 currently-reading 3.77 1854 Walden or, Life in the Woods
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]]> 1984 5470 328 George Orwell Robert 4 currently-reading 4.15 1949 1984
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]]> Emile, or On Education 326679 501 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0465019315 Robert 5 currently-reading 3.63 1762 Emile, or On Education
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]]> Thus Spoke Zarathustra 51893 Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics.

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life passionate, chaotic and free.]]> 327 Friedrich Nietzsche Robert 5 currently-reading 4.10 1883 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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]]> <![CDATA[For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand]]> 663 224 Ayn Rand 0451163087 Robert 4 3.69 1961 For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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]]> The Antichrist 441274 88 Friedrich Nietzsche 1420925091 Robert 5 3.75 1895 The Antichrist
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs]]> 94578 "[This book] mirrors all of Nietzsche's thought and could be related in hundreds of ways to his other books, his notes, and his letters. And yet it is complete in itself. For it is a work of art." —Walter Kaufmann in the Introduction

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.

Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published.

Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.]]> 396 Friedrich Nietzsche 0394719859 Robert 5 4.29 1882 The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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]]> <![CDATA[The First and Second Discourses]]> 27791 256 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0312694407 Robert 5 3.76 1750 The First and Second Discourses
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]]> Two Treatises of Government 364550 464 John Locke 0521357306 Robert 5 3.87 1689 Two Treatises of Government
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]]> The New Organon 309002 292 Francis Bacon 0521564832 Robert 0 to-read 3.72 1620 The New Organon
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]]> <![CDATA[New Atlantis and The Great Instauration]]> 277033 128 Francis Bacon 0882951262 Robert 5 3.47 1620 New Atlantis and The Great Instauration
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Founder of the modern age. Can't put his value into words.
]]> <![CDATA[Tao Te Ching: A New English Version]]> 17743911
The Tao Te Ching is the most widely traslated book in world literature, after the Bible. Yet the gemlike lucidity of the original has eluded most previous translations, and they have obscured some of its central ideas. Now the Tao Te ching has been rendered into English by the eminent scholar and traslator Stephen Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha "is a modern Zen classic, and his translations of Rilke and of the Book of Job have already been called definitive for our time.]]> 144 Lao Tzu 0060778067 Robert 0 to-read 4.78 -350 Tao Te Ching: A New English Version
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]]> Wuthering Heights 6185 You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.

Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 464 Emily Brontë Robert 0 to-read 3.89 1847 Wuthering Heights
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]]> Apology 73945 The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions.

The revised edition of this popular textbook features revised vocabulary and grammatical notes that now appear on the same page as the text, sentence diagrams, principal parts of verbs listed both by Stephanus page and alphabetically, word frequency list for words occurring more than twice, and complete vocabulary.]]> 127 Plato 0865163480 Robert 5 4.22 -399 Apology
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]]> Clouds 763602 414 Aristophanes 0198143958 Robert 4 3.81 -423 Clouds
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]]> Where the Sidewalk Ends 30119 Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.

Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.

You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.]]> 176 Shel Silverstein 0060513039 Robert 0 4.34 1974 Where the Sidewalk Ends
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Robert 0 to-read 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Robert 0 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
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]]> The Giving Tree 370493
So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.]]> 64 Shel Silverstein 0060256656 Robert 0 to-read 4.38 1964 The Giving Tree
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 4381 158 Ray Bradbury 0307347974 Robert 0 to-read 3.96 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> Romeo and Juliet 18135 Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers� final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.]]> 281 William Shakespeare 0743477111 Robert 0 to-read 3.74 1597 Romeo and Juliet
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse Robert 5 4.07 1922 Siddhartha
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The comments on this book have served it well. I will say that it was a very easy and informing read that kept me eager to turn the page. I really enjoyed this book.
]]> Love and Friendship 217107 592 Allan Bloom 0671891200 Robert 0 4.21 1993 Love and Friendship
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]]> <![CDATA[Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder]]> 31487 352 Richard Dawkins 0618056734 Robert 0 to-read 4.02 2000 Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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]]> The Descent of Man 185407 The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond.

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' - Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.

In their introduction, James Moore and Adrian Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the second and definitive edition and this volume also contains suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical sketches of prominent individuals mentioned.

Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs.

If you enjoyed The Descent of Man, you might like Darwin's On the Origin of Species, also available in Penguin Classics.]]> 796 Charles Darwin 0140436316 Robert 0 to-read 4.05 1871 The Descent of Man
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]]> <![CDATA[The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal]]> 49234
With fascinating facts and his unparalleled readability, Diamond intended his book to improve the world that today’s young people will inherit. Triangle Square’s The Third Chimpanzee for Young People is a book for future generation and the future they’ll help build.]]> 407 Jared Diamond 0060845503 Robert 0 to-read 4.08 1991 The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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]]> <![CDATA[The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design]]> 117047 ***30th Anniversary Edition***

Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph. No two covers are exactly alike.

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?]]> 466 Richard Dawkins 0141026162 Robert 0 to-read 4.09 1986 The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body]]> 1662160
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik-the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006-tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.

Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.]]> 229 Neil Shubin 0375424474 Robert 0 to-read 4.02 2008 Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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]]> The Selfish Gene 61535 360 Richard Dawkins 0199291152 Robert 0 to-read 4.15 1976 The Selfish Gene
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]]> <![CDATA[Locke: Political Writings (Hackett Classics)]]> 316224 Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XIV unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet many of Locke's other writings, not least the Constitutions of Carolina, which he helped draft are almost defiantly anti-liberal in outlook.

This comprehensive collection brings together the main published works (excluding polemical attacks on other people's views) with the most important surviving evidence from among Locke's papers relating to his political philosophy. David Wootton's wide-ranging and scholarly introduction sets the writings in the context of their time, examines Locke's developing ideas and unorthodox Christianity, and analyzes his main arguments. The result is the first fully rounded picture of Locke's political thought in his own words.]]> 488 John Locke 0872206777 Robert 0 to-read 3.80 1993 Locke: Political Writings (Hackett Classics)
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]]> The Basic Political Writings 27785
* Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
* Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
* Discourse on Political Economy
* On the Social Contract

'The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory....'--Raymon M. Lemos, Teaching Philosophy

'The single most comprehensive, reliable and economical collection ofRousseaus explicitly political writings.'--Michael Franz, Loyola College]]> 227 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0872200477 Robert 0 to-read 3.87 1755 The Basic Political Writings
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]]> Sense and Sensibility 14935 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662

'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141439661 Robert 0 to-read 4.10 1811 Sense and Sensibility
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]]> Ion 1216085 48 Plato 1419126660 Robert 0 to-read 3.58 -390 Ion
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]]> <![CDATA[The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers]]> 31795
Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.]]> 704 Will Durant 0671739166 Robert 0 to-read 4.16 1926 The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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]]> Sophist (Hackett Classics) 26995 112 Plato 087220202X Robert 0 to-read 4.09 -360 Sophist (Hackett Classics)
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]]> Gorgias 1354
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, Gorgias debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral standards essential or should we give our preference to the pragmatist who gets things done or negotiates successfully? Should individuals be motivated by a desire for personal power and prestige, or genuine concern for the moral betterment of the citizens? These questions go to the heart of Athenian democratic principles and are more relevant than ever in today's political climate.]]> 208 Plato 0140449043 Robert 0 to-read 3.94 -380 Gorgias
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]]> De Anima (On the Soul) 794501 'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms - the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication - convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In De Anima, he sought to set out his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced both a masterpiece of philosophical insight and a psychology of perennially fascinating subtlety.

Hugh Lawson-Tancred's masterly translation makes De Anima fully accessible to modern readers. In his introduction, he places Aristotle's theories at the heart of contemporary debates on the philosophy of life and being.]]> 254 Aristotle 0140444718 Robert 0 to-read 4.05 -350 De Anima (On the Soul)
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]]> The Art of Rhetoric 881319 Art of Rhetoric held a far deeper purpose. Here Aristotle establishes the methods of informal reasoning, provides the first aesthetic evaluation of prose style and offers detailed observations on character and the emotions. Hugely influential upon later Western culture, the Art of Rhetoric is a fascinating consideration of the force of persuasion and sophistry, and a compelling guide to the principles behind oratorical skill.]]> 292 Aristotle 0140445102 Robert 0 to-read 3.90 -322 The Art of Rhetoric
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]]> Poetics 13270 'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'

Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation conveys universal truths which we can appreciate more easily than the lessons of history or philosophy. In his short treatise Aristotle discusses the origins of poetry and its early development, the nature of tragedy and plot, and offers practical advice to playwrights.]]> 144 Aristotle 0140446362 Robert 0 to-read 3.84 -335 Poetics
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]]> The Nicomachean Ethics 19068 ‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy�

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue�, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle’s work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters.

J. A. K. Thomson’s translation has been revised by Hugh Tredennick, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Jonathan Barnes. This edition also includes an updated list for further reading and a new chronology of Aristotle’s life and works.

Previously published as Ethics]]> 329 Aristotle 0140449493 Robert 0 to-read 4.00 -350 The Nicomachean Ethics
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]]> Politics 19083 Both heavily influenced by and critical of Plato's Republic and Laws, Politics represents the distillation of a lifetime of thought and observation. "Encyclopaedic knowledge has never, before or since, gone hand in hand with a logic so masculine or with speculation so profound," says H. W. C. Davis in his introduction. Students, teachers, and scholars will welcome this inexpensive new edition of the Benjamin Jowett translation, as will all readers interested in Greek thought, political theory, and depictions of the ideal state.]]> 368 Aristotle 0486414248 Robert 0 to-read 4.00 -350 Politics
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]]> Kissinger 1135353 577 Marvin Kalb 0316482218 Robert 0 currently-reading 3.68 1974 Kissinger
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]]> The Power of Myth 35519 293 Joseph Campbell 0385418868 Robert 0 4.26 1988 The Power of Myth
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]]> <![CDATA[Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet]]> 2608470
In addition, Cousens shares his new dietary system of "spiritual nutrition" that is based on the relationship that the color of the food has to corresponding colors of the human chakra system, hence, the "rainbow diet." For true nourishment, he strongly promotes the connection of diet to meditation, fellowship, wisdom, and love.]]> 240 Gabriel Cousens 0961587520 Robert 5 4.24 1987 Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet
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Wondering why I choose to eat certain foods when I do and what the correlation is between my spirit. Who are we people?
]]> <![CDATA[Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990]]> 340856 400 Allan Bloom 0671747266 Robert 0 to-read 4.14 1990 Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990
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]]> Shakespeare's Politics 428457
In essays looking at Julius Caesar, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Bloom shows how Shakespeare presents a picture of man that does not assume privileged access for only literary criticism. With this claim, he argues that political philosophy offers a comprehensive framework within which the problems of the Shakespearean heroes can be viewed. In short, he argues that Shakespeare was an eminently political author. Also included is an essay by Harry V. Jaffa on the limits of politics in King Lear.

"A very good book indeed . . . one which can be recommended to all who are interested in Shakespeare." —G. P. V. Akrigg

"This series of essays reminded me of the scope and depth of Shakespeare's original vision. One is left with the impression that Shakespeare really had figured out the answers to some important questions many of us no longer even know to ask."-Peter A. Thiel, CEO, PayPal, Wall Street Journal

Allan Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee on Social Thought and the co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. Harry V. Jaffa is professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School.]]> 160 Allan Bloom 0226060411 Robert 0 to-read 4.30 1964 Shakespeare's Politics
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]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare on Love and Friendship]]> 217109
This volume includes essays on five plays, Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and The Winter's Tale, and within these Bloom meditates on Shakespeare's work as a whole. He also draws on his formidable knowledge of Plato, Rousseau, and others to bring both ancients and moderns into the conversation. The result is a truly synoptic treatment of eros—not only a philosophical reflection on Shakespeare, but a survey of the human spirit and its tendency to seek what Bloom calls the "connectedness" of love and friendship.

These highly original interpretations of the plays convey a deep respect for their author and a deep conviction that we still have much to learn from him. In Bloom's view, we live in a love-impoverished age; he asks us to turn once more to Shakespeare because the playwright gives us a rich version of what is permanent in human nature without sharing our contemporary assumptions about erotic love.

"Provocative and illuminating." —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"A brilliant analysis of the erotic ugliness and the balancing erotic grace of The Winter's Tale . . . and Bloom makes more sense of [ Measure for Measure ] than anyone else I have read." —A. S. Byatt, Washington Post Book World

At his death in 1992, Allan Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Shakespeare's Politics (with Harry V. Jaffa) and The Closing of the American Mind.]]> 160 Allan Bloom 0226060454 Robert 0 to-read 4.11 2000 Shakespeare on Love and Friendship
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]]> A Letter to a Hindu 6682252 15 Leo Tolstoy Robert 4 3.76 1908 A Letter to a Hindu
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]]> The Politics of Aesthetics 251128
Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age.


Already translated into five languages, this English edition of The Politics of Aesthetics includes a new afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.]]> 112 Jacques Rancière 0826489540 Robert 0 to-read 3.95 2000 The Politics of Aesthetics
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]]> On Language 12626 Two of Chomsky's most famous and accessible works available in an affordable and attractive edition.

Described by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky's most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic's most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought.

In Part I, Language and Responsibility (1979), Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking through a series of interviews with Mitsou Ronat, the noted French linguist. In Part II, Reflections on Language (1975), Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language.]]> 481 Noam Chomsky 1565844750 Robert 0 to-read 3.85 1998 On Language
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]]> The Feminine Mystique 38723 The book that changed the consciousness of a country―and the world.

Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.]]> 430 Betty Friedan 0393322572 Robert 3 3.79 1963 The Feminine Mystique
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]]> <![CDATA[Climate Wars: What People Will be Killed for in the 21st Century]]> 13175184
In this major book Harald Welzer shows how climate change and violence go hand in hand. Climate change has far-reaching consequences for the living conditions of peoples around the inhabitable spaces shrink, scarce resources become scarcer, injustices grow deeper, not only between North and South but also between generations, storing up material for new social tensions and giving rise to violent conflicts, civil wars and massive refugee flows. Climate change poses major new challenges in terms of security, responsibility and justice, but as Welzer makes disturbingly clear, very little is being done to confront them.

The paperback edition includes a new Preface that brings the book up to date and addresses the most recent developments and trends.]]> 288 Harald Welzer 0745651453 Robert 3 3.58 2008 Climate Wars: What People Will be Killed for in the 21st Century
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]]> The Symposium 81779
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love--as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive for social action and as a means of ethical education.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 90 Plato 0140449272 Robert 5 4.11 -380 The Symposium
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]]> The Death of Ivan Ilych 18386
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 86 Leo Tolstoy Robert 5 4.12 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych
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]]> War and Peace 656
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.


Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.]]> 1392 Leo Tolstoy 0192833987 Robert 0 4.14 1869 War and Peace
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]]> <![CDATA[American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau]]> 2228859
Classics of the environmental imagination—the essays of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring—are set against the inspiring story of an emerging activist movement, as revealed by newly uncovered reports of pioneering campaigns for conservation, passages from landmark legal opinions and legislation, and searing protest speeches. Here are some of America’s greatest and most impassioned writers, taking a turn toward nature and recognizing the fragility of our situation on earth and the urgency of the search for a sustainable way of life. Thought-provoking essays on overpopulation, consumerism, energy policy, and the nature of “nature� join ecologists� memoirs and intimate sketches of the habitats of endangered species. The anthology includes a detailed chronology of the environmental movement and American environmental history, as well as an 80-page color portfolio of illustrations.]]> 1047 Bill McKibben 1598530208 Robert 0 4.24 2008 American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems]]> 123847
The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity. As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature. “I become a transparent eyeball,� Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.� Written over a century ago, this passage is a striking example of the passion and originality of Emerson’s ideas, which continue to serve as a spiritual center and an ideological base for modern thought.]]> 416 Ralph Waldo Emerson 0553213881 Robert 0 4.12 1965 Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate]]> 5579277 416 John Kallas 1423601505 Robert 0 to-read 4.42 2010 Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Origin of Species (Large Print Edition)]]> 6329013 616 Charles Darwin 0554267381 Robert 0 to-read 3.98 1859 On the Origin of Species (Large Print Edition)
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]]> Emma 76691 here.

Emma, first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature's greatest comic creations--the eccentric Mr. Woodhouse and that quintessential bore, Miss Bates. Here, too, we have what may well be Jane Austen's most profound characterization: the witty, imaginative, self-deluded Emma, a heroine the author declared "no one but myself will much like," but who has been much loved by generations of readers. Delightfully funny, full of rich irony, Emma is regarded as one of Jane Austen's finest achievements.]]> 422 Jane Austen 0553212737 Robert 0 to-read 4.03 1815 Emma
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]]> Tao Te Ching 67896 A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition.

Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature.

Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao Tzu, the Tao Teh Ching teaches that the qualities of the enlightened sage or ideal ruler are identical with those of the perfected individual.

Today, Lao Tzu's words are as useful in mastering the arts of leadership in business and politics as they are in developing a sense of balance and harmony in everyday life. To follow the Tao or Way of all things and realize their true nature is to embody humility, spontaneity, and generosity.

John C. H. Wu has done a remarkable job of rendering this subtle text into English while retaining the freshness and depth of the original. A jurist and scholar, Dr. Wu was a recognized authority on Taoism and the translator of several Taoist and Zen texts and of Chinese poetry.

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts.

The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.]]> 107 Lao Tzu 0679724346 Robert 0 to-read 4.29 -350 Tao Te Ching
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]]> <![CDATA[The Closing of the American Mind]]> 75812 The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.]]> 392 Allan Bloom 0671657151 Robert 5 3.74 1987 The Closing of the American Mind
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]]> The Prince 28862
1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people.
2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him.
3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose.
4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory.
5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression.
6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope.
7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters,
8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure.
9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice
10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.]]> 144 Niccolò Machiavelli 0937832383 Robert 4 3.85 1513 The Prince
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)]]> 22632
Socrates is one of the great figures of Western history and the founding father of its philosophical tradition. In the Dialogues, by his pupil and fellow philosopher Plato, a fascinating portrait emerges of a man who spurned material wealth and believed above all in learning and inquiry. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo recount Socrates� trial on charges of corrupting the youth of Athens, his defiance of the court, and his last days in jail passed in discussion with friends. They form an excellent introduction to a courageous and captivating figure who paid with his life for the right to free thought.]]> 58 Plato 0872205541 Robert 5 4.15 -400 The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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]]> Don Quixote 3836
With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."]]> 1023 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Robert 5 3.86 1615 Don Quixote
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Top 3 books for me. Dream BIG & BE it!!
]]> <![CDATA[Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia]]> 259713 288 Erik Reece 1594482365 Robert 0 4.17 2006 Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Robert 0 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curse of Camp Cold Lake (Goosebumps, #56)]]> 125541 Camp is supposed to be fun, but Sarah hates Camp Cold Lake. The lake is gross and slimy. And she's having a little trouble with her bunkmates. They hate her.
So Sarah comes up with a plan. She'll pretend to drown -- then everyone will feel sorry for her.
But things don't go exactly the way Sarah planned. Because down by the cold, dark lake someone is watching her. Stalking her. Someone with pale blue eyes. And a see-through body. . . .]]> 144 R.L. Stine 043972404X Robert 0 3.78 1997 The Curse of Camp Cold Lake (Goosebumps, #56)
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]]> <![CDATA[Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes (Goosebumps, #34)]]> 125619 160 R.L. Stine 0439573750 Robert 0 3.51 1995 Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes (Goosebumps, #34)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Beast from the East (Goosebumps, #43)]]> 125651 EVERY BEAST FOR HIMSELF!

Ginger Wald and her identical twin brothers, Nat and Pat, are lost in the woods. No problem. After all, Ginger did go to that stupid nature camp.

Still, there's something odd about this part of the woods. The grass is yellow. The bushes are purple. And the trees are like skyscrapers.

Then Ginger and her brothers meet the beasts. They're big blue furry creatures. And they want to play a game. But in this game, the winners get to live. The losers get eaten. . . .]]> 118 R.L. Stine 0439724031 Robert 0 3.67 1996 The Beast from the East (Goosebumps, #43)
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]]> <![CDATA[Return of the Mummy (Goosebumps, #23)]]> 460505 ΝΕΚΡΟΣ... Ή ΖΩΝΤΑΝΟΣ;

Μετά την τρομακτική του περιπέτεια της προηγούμενης χρονιάς, ο Γκέιμπ αισθάνεται κάπως τρομαγμένος τώρα που βρίσκεται πάλι στην Αίγυπτο. Στις αρχαίες πυραμίδες. Εκεί όπου έιχε δει όλες εκείνες τις ανατριχιαστικές μούμιες.
Τότε, ακούει για κείνον τον αιγυπτιακό θρύλο. Πρόκειται για ένα μυστικό τραγούδι, που λένε ότι ξαναζωντανεύει τις μούμιες. Ο θείος του Γκέιπ λέει ότι όλα αυτά είναι παραμύθια.
Όμως, σαν κάτι να κουνήθηκε μέσα στον τάφο με τη μούμια...
Δεν είναι δυνατόν δυο τρεις ανόητες λέξεις να μπορούν να ξυπνήσουν τους νεκρούς.
Ή μήπως μπορούν;

(από το οπισθόφυλλο)]]> 118 R.L. Stine 0590477455 Robert 0 3.55 1994 Return of the Mummy (Goosebumps, #23)
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]]> <![CDATA[It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps, #30)]]> 125536 144 R.L. Stine 0439568374 Robert 0 3.58 1995 It Came from Beneath the Sink! (Goosebumps, #30)
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]]> <![CDATA[Phantom of the Auditorium (Goosebumps, #24)]]> 125547 LIGHTS...CURTAIN...PHANTOM?

Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has just been given the lead role in the school play, The Phantom. Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke thinks Zeke's getting a little too into it.

But then really scary things start happening. A message appears on a piece of scenery: "The Phantom Strikes!" A stage light comes crashing down.

Is someone trying to ruin the play?

Or is there really a phantom living under the stage?]]> 160 R.L. Stine 0590483544 Robert 0 3.67 1994 Phantom of the Auditorium (Goosebumps, #24)
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]]> <![CDATA[Be Careful What You Wish For... (Goosebumps, #12)]]> 125545 MAKE A WISH!

Samantha Byrd is a klutz. An accident waiting to happen. She's the laughing stock of the girls basketball team. And that mean, rotten Judith Bellwood is making her life miserable on and off the court.

But everything's about to change.

Sam's met someone who can grant her three wishes. For real. Too bad Sam wasn't careful what she wished for.

Because her wishes are coming true.

And they're turning her life into a living nightmare!]]> 160 R.L. Stine 0439669901 Robert 0 3.69 1993 Be Careful What You Wish For... (Goosebumps, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[Go Eat Worms! (Goosebumps, #21)]]> 161553 THEY'RE CREEPY AND THEY'RE CRAWLY‑THEY'RE TOTALLY DISGUSTING!

Obsessed with worms? That's putting it mildly. Todd is so fascinated with worms, he keeps a worm farm in his basement! Most of all, Todd loves torturing his sister and her best friend with worms. Dropping them in their hair. Down their backs.
Until one day, after cutting a worm in half, Todd notices something strange. The rest of the worms seems to be staring at him! Suddenly worms start showing up in the worst places for Todd. In his bed. In his homework. Even in his spaghetti!
What's a worm lover to do when his own worms are starting to gross him out?]]> 122 R.L. Stine 0590477439 Robert 0 3.33 1994 Go Eat Worms! (Goosebumps, #21)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Goosebumps, #5)]]> 125601
Gabe just got lost - in a pyramid. One minute, his crazy cousin Sari was right ahead of him in the pyramid tunnel. The next minute, she'd disappeared.

But Gabe isn't alone. Someone else is in the pyramid, too.

Someone. Or some thing.

Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb. But that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real.

Does it?]]> 160 R.L. Stine 0439568277 Robert 0 3.68 1993 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Goosebumps, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Night in Terror Tower (Goosebumps, #27)]]> 690644 160 R.L. Stine 0439671116 Robert 0 3.74 1995 A Night in Terror Tower (Goosebumps, #27)
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]]> <![CDATA[Vampire Breath (Goosebumps, #49)]]> 783218 HE'S A DENTIST'S NIGHTMARE

Tough. That's Freddy Martinez and his friend, Cara. They're not afraid of anything. But that was before they went exploring in Freddy's basement. Before they found the secret room. Before they found the bottle of Vampire Breath.

Poor Freddy and Cara. They should have never opened that bottle of Vampire Breath. Because now there's a vampire in Freddy's basement. And he's very, very thirsty...]]> 114 R.L. Stine 0590568868 Robert 0 3.65 1996 Vampire Breath (Goosebumps, #49)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps, #20)]]> 125544 160 R.L. Stine 0439568439 Robert 0 3.72 1994 The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps, #20)
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]]> <![CDATA[Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)]]> 125564 160 R.L. Stine 0439568404 Robert 0 3.86 1993 Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11)]]> 308540 FACE TO FACE WITH A NIGHTMARE...

How ugly is Carly Beth's Halloween mask? It's so ugly that it almost scared her little brother to death. So terrifying that even her friends are totally freaked out by it.

It's the best Halloween mask ever. It's everything Carly Beth hoped it would be. And more.

Maybe too much more. Because Halloween is almost over.

And Carly Beth is still wearing that special mask...]]> 144 R.L. Stine 0439568331 Robert 5 3.88 1993 The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11)
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]]> <![CDATA[Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)]]> 125553
Because they want to be friends...

...Forever.]]> 160 R.L. Stine 0439568471 Robert 0 3.86 1992 Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)
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]]> Democracy in America 16619 Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the USA. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning of American democracy & the social, political & economic life of its citizens, publishing his observations in 1835 & 1840. Brilliantly written, vividly illustrated with vignettes & portraits, Democracy in America is far more than a trenchant analysis of one society at a particular point in time. What will most intrigue modern readers is how many of the observations still hold true: on the mixed advantages of a free press, the strained relations among the races & the threats posed to democracies by consumerism & corruption. So uncanny is Tocqueville’s insight & so accurate are his predictions, that it seems as tho he were not merely describing the American identity but actually helping to create it.]]> 983 Alexis de Tocqueville 0140447601 Robert 0 to-read 4.03 1835 Democracy in America
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]]> <![CDATA[Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)]]> 22472 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry into much-explored issues of 18th-century (and subsequent) philosophy: human nature and the best form of government.

Rousseau takes an innovative approach by introducing a "hypothetical history" that presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. In his sweeping account of humanity's social and political development, the author develops a theory of human evolution that prefigures Darwinian thought and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. He concludes that people are inevitably corrupt as a result of both natural (or physical) inequalities and moral (or political) inequalities.

One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality offers a thought-provoking account of society's origins and a keen criticism of unequal modern political institutions.]]> 73 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0486434141 Robert 5 3.86 1755 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources]]> 11731786 320 Michael T. Klare 0805091262 Robert 0 3.62 2011 The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
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]]> <![CDATA[2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years]]> 14359379 416 Jørgen Randers 1603584676 Robert 0 currently-reading 3.94 2012 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
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]]> Moneyball 1301 Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.

Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. --John Moe

]]> 317 Michael Lewis 0393324818 Robert 0 to-read 4.26 2003 Moneyball
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]]> Climate Wars 4442700
Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research and interviews, Climate Wars promises to be one of the most important books of the coming years.]]> 288 Gwynne Dyer 0307355837 Robert 0 to-read 3.89 2008 Climate Wars
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]]> The Imitation of Christ 851393 242 Thomas a Kempis 0375700188 Robert 5 to-read 4.18 1427 The Imitation of Christ
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