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Az elvek csapodár természete

by Mérő László • 2008

Reason depends on emotion. Logic has limits. A psychologist's case for pragmatism over purity.

4.25

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎯 Game Theory 🧬 Cultural Evolution 📚 History Of Science 🎭 Emotion And Reason

Az elvek csapodár természete

Reason depends on emotion. Logic has limits. A psychologist's case for pragmatism over purity.

by Mérő László 2008 230 pages

4.25

61 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎯 Game Theory 🧬 Cultural Evolution 📚 History Of Science 🎭 Emotion And Reason

Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

by Benjamin M. Studebaker • 2024

Democracies survive today not by solving problems but by multiplying stories about why they can't.

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🏛️ Democratic Legitimacy 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 📖 Critical Theory 😞 Political Despair ⚙️ State Capacity

Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

Democracies survive today not by solving problems but by multiplying stories about why they can't.

by Benjamin M. Studebaker 2024 208 pages

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15 ratings

🏛️ Democratic Legitimacy 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 📖 Critical Theory 😞 Political Despair ⚙️ State Capacity

Essence of the Upanishads

by Eknath Easwaran • 2009

Ancient sages mapped the mind and how to escape it. Their manual for modern seekers.

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🕉️ Vedanta Philosophy 🌏 Eastern Spirituality 🧠 Mind Mastery 🔥 Desire Management 🌌 Ego Transcendence

Essence of the Upanishads

Ancient sages mapped the mind and how to escape it. Their manual for modern seekers.

by Eknath Easwaran 2009 304 pages

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500+ ratings

🕉️ Vedanta Philosophy 🌏 Eastern Spirituality 🧠 Mind Mastery 🔥 Desire Management 🌌 Ego Transcendence

The Curse of God

by Harris Sultan • 2018

Predatory prophet, flawed scripture, impossible god: an ex-Muslim states the case against Islam.

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🗣️ Ex-Muslim Voices ⚛️ New Atheism ☪️ Islamic Theology 😈 Problem Of Evil ⚖️ Secular Morality

The Curse of God

Predatory prophet, flawed scripture, impossible god: an ex-Muslim states the case against Islam.

by Harris Sultan 2018 250 pages

3.91

159 ratings

🗣️ Ex-Muslim Voices ⚛️ New Atheism ☪️ Islamic Theology 😈 Problem Of Evil ⚖️ Secular Morality

Talking to the Enemy

by Scott Atran • 2010

They don't kill for virgins or ideology. They kill for friends, and logic can't stop them.

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💣 Terrorism Studies 👥 Group Radicalization 🕌 Religious Extremism 🧠 Cognitive Science Of Religion 🛡️ Counterterrorism

Talking to the Enemy

They don't kill for virgins or ideology. They kill for friends, and logic can't stop them.

by Scott Atran 2010 581 pages

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288 ratings

💣 Terrorism Studies 👥 Group Radicalization 🕌 Religious Extremism 🧠 Cognitive Science Of Religion 🛡️ Counterterrorism

The Watchman's Rattle

by Rebecca D. Costa • 2009

Civilizations do not fail from scarcity or war. They fail when problems outthink brains.

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⛓️ Societal Collapse 🧠 Cognitive Science 🦠 Cultural Evolution 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📊 Information Overload

The Watchman's Rattle

Civilizations do not fail from scarcity or war. They fail when problems outthink brains.

by Rebecca D. Costa 2009 347 pages

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⛓️ Societal Collapse 🧠 Cognitive Science 🦠 Cultural Evolution 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📊 Information Overload

Dedication and Leadership

by Douglas Arnold Hyde • 1956

An ex-Communist exposes the methods that let a tiny minority capture a third of the world.

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✊ Political Organizing 🔥 Member Dedication 🌱 Leadership Development 🪞 Organizational Candor 📢 Message Simplicity

Dedication and Leadership

An ex-Communist exposes the methods that let a tiny minority capture a third of the world.

by Douglas Arnold Hyde 1956 160 pages

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275 ratings

✊ Political Organizing 🔥 Member Dedication 🌱 Leadership Development 🪞 Organizational Candor 📢 Message Simplicity

Big Talk

by Kalina Silverman • 2026

Three rules for a question that turns strangers into confidants and cures the loneliness epidemic.

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💬 Meaningful Conversation 🫂 Loneliness Epidemic ❓ Deep Questioning 💛 Vulnerability 🫶 Empathy Building

Big Talk

Three rules for a question that turns strangers into confidants and cures the loneliness epidemic.

by Kalina Silverman 2026 288 pages

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45 ratings

💬 Meaningful Conversation 🫂 Loneliness Epidemic ❓ Deep Questioning 💛 Vulnerability 🫶 Empathy Building

A Shorter Summa

by Peter Kreeft • 1485

Five proofs for God, four virtues for a good life, and why only the infinite satisfies.

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🛐 Thomism 📜 Scholastic Theology 🏰 Medieval Philosophy 🔭 Natural Theology 🎭 Virtue Ethics

A Shorter Summa

Five proofs for God, four virtues for a good life, and why only the infinite satisfies.

by Peter Kreeft 1485 165 pages

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462 ratings

🛐 Thomism 📜 Scholastic Theology 🏰 Medieval Philosophy 🔭 Natural Theology 🎭 Virtue Ethics

The End of Mr. Y

by Scarlett Thomas • 2006

A cursed book lets her enter other minds. Now shadowy agents hunt her through that world.

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🖤 Dark Academia 📖 Cursed Book 🔮 Metaphysical Thriller 🧠 Mind Travel 🌫️ Unreliable Reality

The End of Mr. Y

A cursed book lets her enter other minds. Now shadowy agents hunt her through that world.

by Scarlett Thomas 2006 402 pages

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🖤 Dark Academia 📖 Cursed Book 🔮 Metaphysical Thriller 🧠 Mind Travel 🌫️ Unreliable Reality

Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition

by Michel Houellebecq • 1998

Two estranged half-brothers search for connection in a Europe engineering its own replacement.

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👬 Estranged Brothers 🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💔 Sexual Despair 🥀 Bleak Social Critique 🧬 Genetic Dystopia

Atomised by Houellebecq, Michel, Wynne, Frank New Edition

Two estranged half-brothers search for connection in a Europe engineering its own replacement.

by Michel Houellebecq 1998

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51k+ ratings

👬 Estranged Brothers 🖤 Transgressive Fiction 💔 Sexual Despair 🥀 Bleak Social Critique 🧬 Genetic Dystopia

Love and Other Thought Experiments

by Sophie Ward • 2020

An ant. A believer. A family, a death, and the universe that remembers them.

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🌌 Philosophical Fiction 🏠 Chosen Family 👶 Queer Parenthood 🧠 Consciousness Merge 💫 Speculative Grief

Love and Other Thought Experiments

An ant. A believer. A family, a death, and the universe that remembers them.

by Sophie Ward 2020 272 pages

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6k+ ratings

🌌 Philosophical Fiction 🏠 Chosen Family 👶 Queer Parenthood 🧠 Consciousness Merge 💫 Speculative Grief

The Black Messiah

by Albert B. Cleage Jr. • 1989

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

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🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique ⛪ Anti-Colonial Christianity 🔗 Collective Liberation

The Black Messiah

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

by Albert B. Cleage Jr. 1989 278 pages

4.35

17 ratings

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique ⛪ Anti-Colonial Christianity 🔗 Collective Liberation

Everything for Sale

by Robert Kuttner • 1997

Every real market depends on rules it cannot create, and a democracy it can easily consume.

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Public Goods 🗳️ Social Democracy 📐 Institutional Economics

Everything for Sale

Every real market depends on rules it cannot create, and a democracy it can easily consume.

by Robert Kuttner 1997 410 pages

3.94

80 ratings

🏛️ Political Economy ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Public Goods 🗳️ Social Democracy 📐 Institutional Economics

Eureka!

by Peter V. Jones • 2014

Never a nation, always a competition. The story of ancient Greece that skips the boring parts.

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 📚 Popular History ⚡ Greek Mythology 📜 Classical Studies 🤔 Greek Philosophy

Eureka!

Never a nation, always a competition. The story of ancient Greece that skips the boring parts.

by Peter V. Jones 2014 372 pages

3.53

445 ratings

🏛️ Ancient Greece 📚 Popular History ⚡ Greek Mythology 📜 Classical Studies 🤔 Greek Philosophy

Vulture Capitalism

by Grace Blakeley • 2024

The free market is a myth: the economy is planned by oligarchs and serves only them.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Neoliberalism 🌍 Imperialism 🗳️ Economic Democracy

Vulture Capitalism

The free market is a myth: the economy is planned by oligarchs and serves only them.

by Grace Blakeley 2024 360 pages

4.15

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Neoliberalism 🌍 Imperialism 🗳️ Economic Democracy

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

by William G. Howell • 2020

The Constitution was designed for inaction; that structural flaw now fuels populist demagogues.

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📢 Populism 📜 Constitutional Reform 🏛️ Presidential Power 🏢 Congressional Dysfunction

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

The Constitution was designed for inaction; that structural flaw now fuels populist demagogues.

by William G. Howell 2020 256 pages

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82 ratings

🇺🇸 American Politics 📢 Populism 📜 Constitutional Reform 🏛️ Presidential Power 🏢 Congressional Dysfunction

Reading Genesis

by Marilynne Robinson • 2024

Genesis is not history. It is a sustained argument for God's goodness, centuries in the making.

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🔍 Biblical Exegesis 🌘 Theodicy 📖 Literary Theology 🙏 Divine Providence 🏛️ Ancient Near East

Reading Genesis

Genesis is not history. It is a sustained argument for God's goodness, centuries in the making.

by Marilynne Robinson 2024 344 pages

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1k+ ratings

🔍 Biblical Exegesis 🌘 Theodicy 📖 Literary Theology 🙏 Divine Providence 🏛️ Ancient Near East

Einstein's Fridge

by Paul Sen • 2021

The science of heat built the modern world and governs time's arrow, life, and black holes.

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📜 History Of Physics 🔥 Thermodynamics 🔬 History Of Science ⚡ Energy 🔀 Entropy

Einstein's Fridge

The science of heat built the modern world and governs time's arrow, life, and black holes.

by Paul Sen 2021 320 pages

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500+ ratings

📜 History Of Physics 🔥 Thermodynamics 🔬 History Of Science ⚡ Energy 🔀 Entropy

Destructive Trends in Mental Health

by Rogers H. Wright • 2005

Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.

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🧠 Clinical Psychology 🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach ⚖️ Psychology Ethics 🎭 Victimhood Culture 🪄 Pseudoscience Critique

Destructive Trends in Mental Health

Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.

by Rogers H. Wright 2005 384 pages

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21 ratings

🧠 Clinical Psychology 🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach ⚖️ Psychology Ethics 🎭 Victimhood Culture 🪄 Pseudoscience Critique

When the People Speak

by James S. Fishkin • 2009

Democracy's dirty secret: a few hundred informed citizens reason better than millions.

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🏛️ Deliberative Democracy 📘 Democratic Theory 👥 Citizen Assemblies 🤔 Political Ignorance 💬 Opinion Formation

When the People Speak

Democracy's dirty secret: a few hundred informed citizens reason better than millions.

by James S. Fishkin 2009 256 pages

3.76

49 ratings

🏛️ Deliberative Democracy 📘 Democratic Theory 👥 Citizen Assemblies 🤔 Political Ignorance 💬 Opinion Formation

Mind Manipulation

by Haha Lung • 2001

Five emotions every manipulator exploits: a ninja playbook for spotting and shutting them down.

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🛡️ Mental Self-Defense ⚔️ Psychological Warfare 🎭 Emotional Manipulation 👁️ Body Language 🕵️ Covert Influence

Mind Manipulation

Five emotions every manipulator exploits: a ninja playbook for spotting and shutting them down.

by Haha Lung 2001

3.69

310 ratings

🛡️ Mental Self-Defense ⚔️ Psychological Warfare 🎭 Emotional Manipulation 👁️ Body Language 🕵️ Covert Influence

The First Jewish Environmentalist

by Yuval Jobani • 2023

Called Zionism back to the land, literally: labor as prayer, veganism as sacred duty.

🧠 Jewish Philosophy 🌱 Environmental Philosophy ✡️ Zionist Thought 📜 Secular Theology 🧤 Labor And Spirituality

The First Jewish Environmentalist

Called Zionism back to the land, literally: labor as prayer, veganism as sacred duty.

by Yuval Jobani 2023 208 pages

🧠 Jewish Philosophy 🌱 Environmental Philosophy ✡️ Zionist Thought 📜 Secular Theology 🧤 Labor And Spirituality

The Trinity

by Augustine of Hippo

Augustine searched the mind and found the Trinity already there: memory, understanding, and will.

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🔺 Trinitarian Theology 📜 Patristic Theology ✝️ Christology 🕯️ Faith And Reason 🏛️ Augustinian Thought

The Trinity

Augustine searched the mind and found the Trinity already there: memory, understanding, and will.

by Augustine of Hippo 471 pages

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1k+ ratings

🔺 Trinitarian Theology 📜 Patristic Theology ✝️ Christology 🕯️ Faith And Reason 🏛️ Augustinian Thought

NAGOMI

by Ken Mogi • 2024

Japan's philosophy for whole living: acceptance plus creativity, mixed daily until life tastes right

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🎋 Japanese Philosophy 🍱 Cultural Wisdom ⚖️ Balance And Harmony 🧘 Acceptance Practice 🌿 Holistic Well-Being

NAGOMI

Japan's philosophy for whole living: acceptance plus creativity, mixed daily until life tastes right

by Ken Mogi 2024

3.55

185 ratings

🎋 Japanese Philosophy 🍱 Cultural Wisdom ⚖️ Balance And Harmony 🧘 Acceptance Practice 🌿 Holistic Well-Being

The Strength to Dream

by Colin Wilson • 1962

The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.

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📝 Literary Criticism 🎨 Philosophy Of Art 🧠 Existentialism 🌹 Romanticism 🌟 Creative Will

The Strength to Dream

The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.

by Colin Wilson 1962 277 pages

3.93

123 ratings

📝 Literary Criticism 🎨 Philosophy Of Art 🧠 Existentialism 🌹 Romanticism 🌟 Creative Will

Think For Yourself

by Thibaut Meurisse • 2025

Conformity, confirmation bias, and false experts: a practical manual for seeing past your own mind.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 📰 Media Literacy 🎭 Manipulation Tactics 🎲 Probabilistic Thinking

Think For Yourself

Conformity, confirmation bias, and false experts: a practical manual for seeing past your own mind.

by Thibaut Meurisse 2025 176 pages

3.94

31 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 📰 Media Literacy 🎭 Manipulation Tactics 🎲 Probabilistic Thinking

Party of One

by Anneli Rufus • 2003

Your preference for solitude isn't a disorder. Society just needs you to believe it is.

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🫂 Solitude And Society 🔇 Introversion Advocacy 🧬 Temperament Psychology 🎨 Creative Solitude 📺 Cultural Criticism

Party of One

Your preference for solitude isn't a disorder. Society just needs you to believe it is.

by Anneli Rufus 2003 286 pages

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3k+ ratings

🫂 Solitude And Society 🔇 Introversion Advocacy 🧬 Temperament Psychology 🎨 Creative Solitude 📺 Cultural Criticism

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

by Lesslie Newbigin • 1989

The gospel is public truth, not private preference. The real evidence is a congregation living it.

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🗺️ Missiology 📖 Gospel And Culture 🕉️ Religious Pluralism 💭 Faith And Reason ⛪ Missional Church

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

The gospel is public truth, not private preference. The real evidence is a congregation living it.

by Lesslie Newbigin 1989 264 pages

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2k+ ratings

🗺️ Missiology 📖 Gospel And Culture 🕉️ Religious Pluralism 💭 Faith And Reason ⛪ Missional Church

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald • 1995

In 1790s Saxony, a restless philosopher sees his soul's answer in a twelve-year-old girl.

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🖋️ Biographical Novel 🌹 German Romanticism 💭 Idealized Love 💔 Doomed Romance 🧠 Philosophical Fiction

The Blue Flower

In 1790s Saxony, a restless philosopher sees his soul's answer in a twelve-year-old girl.

by Penelope Fitzgerald 1995 226 pages

3.44

6k+ ratings

🖋️ Biographical Novel 🌹 German Romanticism 💭 Idealized Love 💔 Doomed Romance 🧠 Philosophical Fiction

Wobblies and Zapatistas

by Staughton Lynd • 2008

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

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🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

Wobblies and Zapatistas

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

by Staughton Lynd 2008 288 pages

3.89

473 ratings

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

Monkey

by Wu Cheng'en • 1592

After toppling heaven, a monkey king guards a monk through demon-filled China to earn his freedom.

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🪷 Buddhist Allegory 🐒 Trickster Hero ❤️ Found Family 🔄 Redemption Arc 😈 Irreverent Mythology

Monkey

After toppling heaven, a monkey king guards a monk through demon-filled China to earn his freedom.

by Wu Cheng'en 1592 306 pages

4.04

8k+ ratings

🪷 Buddhist Allegory 🐒 Trickster Hero ❤️ Found Family 🔄 Redemption Arc 😈 Irreverent Mythology

Gurdjieff

by Joseph Azize • 2020

Gurdjieff's contemplative method was adapted, breath by breath, from the monks of Mount Athos.

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🏔️ Hesychasm 🧭 Gurdjieff Studies 🧘 Contemplative Practice ☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy 🔍 Comparative Mysticism

Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff's contemplative method was adapted, breath by breath, from the monks of Mount Athos.

by Joseph Azize 2020 346 pages

4.69

16 ratings

🏔️ Hesychasm 🧭 Gurdjieff Studies 🧘 Contemplative Practice ☦️ Eastern Orthodoxy 🔍 Comparative Mysticism

The Heart of the Declaration

by Steve Pincus • 2016

The Declaration was not a small-government manifesto but a blueprint for a powerful, activist state.

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🏛️ American Founding 💰 Political Economy 🏗️ State Formation 🌍 Imperial History 🫂 Public Welfare

The Heart of the Declaration

The Declaration was not a small-government manifesto but a blueprint for a powerful, activist state.

by Steve Pincus 2016 224 pages

3.64

36 ratings

🏛️ American Founding 💰 Political Economy 🏗️ State Formation 🌍 Imperial History 🫂 Public Welfare

Wittgenstein’s Nephew

by Thomas Bernhard • 1982

A writer and his mad friend, the nephew of Wittgenstein, are confined to neighboring hospital wards.

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🖋️ Autofiction 🤝 Male Friendship 🧠 Madness And Genius 🏥 Chronic Illness 😈 Dark Humor

Wittgenstein’s Nephew

A writer and his mad friend, the nephew of Wittgenstein, are confined to neighboring hospital wards.

by Thomas Bernhard 1982 101 pages

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🖋️ Autofiction 🤝 Male Friendship 🧠 Madness And Genius 🏥 Chronic Illness 😈 Dark Humor

The Urge

by Carl Erik Fisher • 2022

Addiction is an ancient divided self, stoked by industry and racial policy into a modern crisis.

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📜 History Of Addiction 🏥 History Of Medicine 💊 Drug Policy 🧠 Weakness Of Will 💰 Behavioral Economics

The Urge

Addiction is an ancient divided self, stoked by industry and racial policy into a modern crisis.

by Carl Erik Fisher 2022 400 pages

4.03

2k+ ratings

📜 History Of Addiction 🏥 History Of Medicine 💊 Drug Policy 🧠 Weakness Of Will 💰 Behavioral Economics

Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies

by Brent E. Parker • 2022

Four evangelical camps, one Bible, and the covenant question that splits them all.

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📖 The Continuity Debate 📜 Biblical Covenants 📚 Evangelical Hermeneutics 🇮🇱 Future Of Israel 🏛️ Covenant Theology

Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies

Four evangelical camps, one Bible, and the covenant question that splits them all.

by Brent E. Parker 2022 266 pages

4.28

226 ratings

📖 The Continuity Debate 📜 Biblical Covenants 📚 Evangelical Hermeneutics 🇮🇱 Future Of Israel 🏛️ Covenant Theology

The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace • 1987

When her great-grandmother vanishes, a phone operator discovers that words are all she is.

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🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🗣️ Language As Trap 🤡 Absurdist Humor

The Broom of the System

When her great-grandmother vanishes, a phone operator discovers that words are all she is.

by David Foster Wallace 1987 467 pages

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24k+ ratings

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🗣️ Language As Trap 🤡 Absurdist Humor

Soul Mantra

by Sadguru Rameshji • 2023

Happiness isn't absent: eighty percent of life already works. Learn to see what you overlook.

🕉️ Vedantic Nonduality ⚖️ Karma And Free Will 💭 Thought Power 💞 Unconditional Love 🙏 Gratitude Practice

Soul Mantra

Happiness isn't absent: eighty percent of life already works. Learn to see what you overlook.

by Sadguru Rameshji 2023 0 pages

1 ratings

🕉️ Vedantic Nonduality ⚖️ Karma And Free Will 💭 Thought Power 💞 Unconditional Love 🙏 Gratitude Practice

The Future of Liberalism

by Alan Wolfe • 2009

Why liberalism owns modernity's past and future, and why its defenders need to stop apologizing.

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🗽 Liberal Tradition 📜 Intellectual History 🛡️ Defense Of Liberalism ⚖️ Rule Of Law ⛪ Church And State

The Future of Liberalism

Why liberalism owns modernity's past and future, and why its defenders need to stop apologizing.

by Alan Wolfe 2009 352 pages

3.74

92 ratings

🗽 Liberal Tradition 📜 Intellectual History 🛡️ Defense Of Liberalism ⚖️ Rule Of Law ⛪ Church And State

Materialist Phenomenology

by Manuel DeLanda • 2021

Mindless agents and a thinking body construct perception; the self is just a story.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🦾 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Phenomenology 💭 Nonconceptual Content 🌿 Ecological Psychology

Materialist Phenomenology

Mindless agents and a thinking body construct perception; the self is just a story.

by Manuel DeLanda 2021 224 pages

4.05

21 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🦾 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Phenomenology 💭 Nonconceptual Content 🌿 Ecological Psychology

Sufi Political Thought

by Milad Milani • 2019

Sufi mystics were never removed from power. They built it, legitimized it, and sometimes seized it.

🕌 Mystical Islam 🌀 Sufi Orders 🏛️ Political Islam 👑 Religious Authority 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

Sufi Political Thought

Sufi mystics were never removed from power. They built it, legitimized it, and sometimes seized it.

by Milad Milani 2019 158 pages

🕌 Mystical Islam 🌀 Sufi Orders 🏛️ Political Islam 👑 Religious Authority 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

Life on Purpose

by Victor J. Strecher • 2016

Purpose cuts dementia by half and heart attacks by a quarter. The science of building it.

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🧠 Meaning Psychology 🔬 Purpose Science 🌅 Self-Transcendence 🏛️ Eudaimonic Living 💪 Willpower Science

Life on Purpose

Purpose cuts dementia by half and heart attacks by a quarter. The science of building it.

by Victor J. Strecher 2016 288 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Meaning Psychology 🔬 Purpose Science 🌅 Self-Transcendence 🏛️ Eudaimonic Living 💪 Willpower Science

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

by Robert Kuttner • 2018

Centrists killed the alternative to laissez-faire. Now the far right is rising from the corpse.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🏦 Financial Deregulation 👷 Precarious Work 🚩 Authoritarian Populism

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

Centrists killed the alternative to laissez-faire. Now the far right is rising from the corpse.

by Robert Kuttner 2018 384 pages

4.10

318 ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🏦 Financial Deregulation 👷 Precarious Work 🚩 Authoritarian Populism

The Secret of Childhood

by Maria Montessori • 1936

Children are driven toward self-perfection; the loving adult is often their greatest obstacle.

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🧒 Child Development 🏫 Progressive Education 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🌱 Self-Directed Learning 🍼 Early Childhood

The Secret of Childhood

Children are driven toward self-perfection; the loving adult is often their greatest obstacle.

by Maria Montessori 1936 256 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧒 Child Development 🏫 Progressive Education 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🌱 Self-Directed Learning 🍼 Early Childhood

Kings or People

by Reinhard Bendix • 1978

Sacred kingship fell. Some nations got parliaments, others commissars. The 2,500-year story of why.

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🏛️ Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 👑 Political Legitimacy 📊 Historical Sociology ⚔️ Feudal Systems

Kings or People

Sacred kingship fell. Some nations got parliaments, others commissars. The 2,500-year story of why.

by Reinhard Bendix 1978 704 pages

3.88

17 ratings

🏛️ Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 👑 Political Legitimacy 📊 Historical Sociology ⚔️ Feudal Systems

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

by Benjamin M. Friedman • 2005

Why tolerance and democracy depend on a growing economy, and why stagnation turns societies inward.

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📜 Economic History ⚖️ Moral Economy 🏛️ Political Economy 🕊️ Prosperity And Tolerance 📉 Stagnation And Decline

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Why tolerance and democracy depend on a growing economy, and why stagnation turns societies inward.

by Benjamin M. Friedman 2005 592 pages

3.73

255 ratings

📜 Economic History ⚖️ Moral Economy 🏛️ Political Economy 🕊️ Prosperity And Tolerance 📉 Stagnation And Decline

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

by Quentin Skinner • 2004

Behind Hobbes's definition of liberty as motion lay a polemical assault on republican freedom.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ✊ Non-Domination 🤝 Social Contract 🌳 State Of Nature

Hobbes and Republican Liberty

Behind Hobbes's definition of liberty as motion lay a polemical assault on republican freedom.

by Quentin Skinner 2004 268 pages

3.83

78 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ✊ Non-Domination 🤝 Social Contract 🌳 State Of Nature

The Origins of Creativity

by Edward O. Wilson • 2017

The humanities cannot explain us without the deep evolutionary past that shaped our minds.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🎭 Two Cultures Debate 🗣️ Origins Of Language 🧠 Cognitive Evolution

The Origins of Creativity

The humanities cannot explain us without the deep evolutionary past that shaped our minds.

by Edward O. Wilson 2017 256 pages

3.67

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🎭 Two Cultures Debate 🗣️ Origins Of Language 🧠 Cognitive Evolution

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

by Walker Percy • 1961

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

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🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

A New Orleans stockbroker drifts through pleasure and routine, searching for a life that feels true.

by Walker Percy 1961

3.64

31k+ ratings

🎭 Southern Gothic 🤔 Existential Novel 🎬 Disaffected Narrator 🌊 Melancholy 🏙️ Mid-Century America

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