에세이

위대한 사상가들이 에세이라는 친밀한 예술을 통해 가장 날카로운 관찰과 가장 설득력 있는 논증을 나누며, 창의성과 문화에서부터 철학, 그리고 현대 생활의 독특한 면면에 이르기까지 다양한 주제를 탐구합니다. 삶의 가장 큰 질문과 씨름하거나 일상의 순간에서 깊은 의미를 발견하는 이 정성스럽게 쓰인 글들은 독자들을 새로운 시선으로 세상을 바라보도록 초대합니다.

에세이 도서 요약

Lost in Thought

저자: Zena Hitz • 2020

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

3.64

1,000+

💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Lost in Thought

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

저자: Zena Hitz 2020 240 페이지

3.64

1,000+ 개의 평점

💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Book Lust

저자: Nancy Pearl • 2003

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

3.77

3,000+

🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

Book Lust

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

저자: Nancy Pearl 2003 287 페이지

3.77

3,000+ 개의 평점

🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

Love That Story

저자: Jonathan Van Ness • 2022

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

4.09

7,000+

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Love That Story

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

저자: Jonathan Van Ness 2022 256 페이지

4.09

7,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

저자: Dan Savage • 2002

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

3.81

3,000+

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

저자: Dan Savage 2002 320 페이지

3.81

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

We Do This 'til We Free Us

저자: Mariame Kaba • 2021

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

4.63

6,000+

🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

We Do This 'til We Free Us

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

저자: Mariame Kaba 2021 240 페이지

4.63

6,000+ 개의 평점

🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

La felicidad

저자: Gabriel Rolón • 2023

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

3.94

1,000+

🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🏛️ Cultural Critique 🛒 Consumerism Critique

La felicidad

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

저자: Gabriel Rolón 2023 299 페이지

3.94

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🏛️ Cultural Critique 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Musonius Rufus

저자: Musonius Rufus

Why farmers make better philosophers than professors, and women need philosophy as much as men.

4.08

500+

🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 🧭 Practical Ethics 🧘 Simple Living 🛡️ Inner Resilience 💊 Philosophy As Therapy

Musonius Rufus

Why farmers make better philosophers than professors, and women need philosophy as much as men.

저자: Musonius Rufus 102 페이지

4.08

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 🧭 Practical Ethics 🧘 Simple Living 🛡️ Inner Resilience 💊 Philosophy As Therapy

Age of Anger

저자: Pankaj Mishra • 2017

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

3.64

2,000+

🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Age of Anger

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

저자: Pankaj Mishra 2017 416 페이지

3.64

2,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Between You & Me

저자: Mary Norris • 2015

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

3.61

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📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Between You & Me

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

저자: Mary Norris 2015 240 페이지

3.61

6,000+ 개의 평점

📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

On Muscle

저자: Bonnie Tsui • 2025

The tissue that moves you also makes you: muscle's hidden role in joy, identity, and resilience.

3.77

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🧬 Muscle Biology 🏋️ Exercise Science 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Gender And Strength

On Muscle

The tissue that moves you also makes you: muscle's hidden role in joy, identity, and resilience.

저자: Bonnie Tsui 2025 256 페이지

3.77

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Muscle Biology 🏋️ Exercise Science 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Gender And Strength

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

저자: Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

4.37

9,000+

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

저자: Thomas Sowell 2005 372 페이지

4.37

9,000+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Design Your Work

저자: Tiago Forte • 2017

Notes are for thinking, not storing. Tools that extend the mind give you the real edge.

4.04

194

🧠 Digital Tools For Thinking 🎯 Attention Management 📝 Note-Taking Systems 🔄 Habit Formation 🧪 Self-Experimentation

Design Your Work

Notes are for thinking, not storing. Tools that extend the mind give you the real edge.

저자: Tiago Forte 2017 303 페이지

4.04

194 개의 평점

🧠 Digital Tools For Thinking 🎯 Attention Management 📝 Note-Taking Systems 🔄 Habit Formation 🧪 Self-Experimentation

Ask a Pro

저자: Phil Gaimon • 2017

What if you trained like an animal and got paid in free bikes and hotel sandwiches?

4.05

500+

🚴 Pro Cycling Life 🎭 Insider Memoirs 🗣️ No-Nonsense Advice 🩺 Doping In Sports 👥 Group Ride Culture

Ask a Pro

What if you trained like an animal and got paid in free bikes and hotel sandwiches?

저자: Phil Gaimon 2017 216 페이지

4.05

500+ 개의 평점

🚴 Pro Cycling Life 🎭 Insider Memoirs 🗣️ No-Nonsense Advice 🩺 Doping In Sports 👥 Group Ride Culture

Penguin Celebrations - The Science of Everyday Life

저자: Jay Ingram • 1989

What walking, blinking, and bees reveal about physics, evolution, and your own brain.

3.76

230

Penguin Celebrations - The Science of Everyday Life

What walking, blinking, and bees reveal about physics, evolution, and your own brain.

저자: Jay Ingram 1989 200 페이지

3.76

230 개의 평점

Unreliable Narrator

저자: Aparna Nancherla • 2023

Off stage, she was still performing. A comedian on the exhausting act of looking okay.

3.58

1,000+

🎤 Comedian Memoirs 🎭 Impostor Syndrome 😅 Depression And Humor 🤫 Introversion 🪞 Body Image

Unreliable Narrator

Off stage, she was still performing. A comedian on the exhausting act of looking okay.

저자: Aparna Nancherla 2023 289 페이지

3.58

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎤 Comedian Memoirs 🎭 Impostor Syndrome 😅 Depression And Humor 🤫 Introversion 🪞 Body Image

50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

저자: Daniele Bolelli • 2011

Undead popes, Buddhist warriors, and a spaghetti god: faith's irreverent, hidden history.

4.00

227

🕌 Religious History ☸️ Comparative Religion ⚡ Institutional Religion 🃏 Religious Satire 🧬 New Atheism

50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

Undead popes, Buddhist warriors, and a spaghetti god: faith's irreverent, hidden history.

저자: Daniele Bolelli 2011 192 페이지

4.00

227 개의 평점

🕌 Religious History ☸️ Comparative Religion ⚡ Institutional Religion 🃏 Religious Satire 🧬 New Atheism

You are Being Lied To

저자: Russ Kick • 2001

The institutions you trust most are filtering what you know. Here is how, and why.

3.87

1,000+

📰 Media Criticism 📜 Hidden Histories 📢 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Media Ecology 🏛️ Institutional Power

You are Being Lied To

The institutions you trust most are filtering what you know. Here is how, and why.

저자: Russ Kick 2001 350 페이지

3.87

1,000+ 개의 평점

📰 Media Criticism 📜 Hidden Histories 📢 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Media Ecology 🏛️ Institutional Power

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

저자: Jen Lancaster • 2020

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

3.37

6,000+

🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 📡 Attention Economy

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

저자: Jen Lancaster 2020 288 페이지

3.37

6,000+ 개의 평점

🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 📡 Attention Economy

Rooted

저자: Lyanda Lynn Haupt • 2021

A field guide to living on a troubled earth, where science, wildness, and spirit converge.

4.00

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🌿 Nature Writing 🌱 Ecological Spirituality 🌎 Environmental Philosophy 🌲 Forest Bathing 🐦 Animal Consciousness

Rooted

A field guide to living on a troubled earth, where science, wildness, and spirit converge.

저자: Lyanda Lynn Haupt 2021 240 페이지

4.00

5,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Nature Writing 🌱 Ecological Spirituality 🌎 Environmental Philosophy 🌲 Forest Bathing 🐦 Animal Consciousness

Imagine a City

저자: Mark Vanhoenacker • 2022

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

3.65

422

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place 👁️ Urban Observation ✍️ Lyrical Nonfiction

Imagine a City

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

저자: Mark Vanhoenacker 2022 416 페이지

3.65

422 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place 👁️ Urban Observation ✍️ Lyrical Nonfiction

Cook, Eat, Repeat

저자: Nigella Lawson • 2020

The case for brown food, anchovies, and leftovers: essays and recipes for pleasure without apology.

4.11

1,000+

🏠 Home Cooking 📖 Food Memoirs ✍️ Cooking Essays 😋 Food Pleasure 🌱 Seasonal Cooking

Cook, Eat, Repeat

The case for brown food, anchovies, and leftovers: essays and recipes for pleasure without apology.

저자: Nigella Lawson 2020 352 페이지

4.11

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Home Cooking 📖 Food Memoirs ✍️ Cooking Essays 😋 Food Pleasure 🌱 Seasonal Cooking

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life

저자: Georgia Pritchett • 2021

An anxious Succession writer's memoir. Doom-notes. Therapy. A son who lost his words. Darkly funny.

3.82

6,000+

🧠 Anxiety Memoirs 🎤 Women In Comedy 📝 Vignette Memoir 🖤 Dark Humor 🇬🇧 British Humor

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life

An anxious Succession writer's memoir. Doom-notes. Therapy. A son who lost his words. Darkly funny.

저자: Georgia Pritchett 2021 293 페이지

3.82

6,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Anxiety Memoirs 🎤 Women In Comedy 📝 Vignette Memoir 🖤 Dark Humor 🇬🇧 British Humor

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

저자: Erwin Schrödinger • 1944

Genes should fall apart. Quantum mechanics explained their permanence and launched the hunt for DNA.

4.13

7,000+

🧬 Quantum Biology 🧫 Molecular Biology 🔄 Order And Complexity 🌡️ Thermodynamics Of Life 📜 Classic Science Essays

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Genes should fall apart. Quantum mechanics explained their permanence and launched the hunt for DNA.

저자: Erwin Schrödinger 1944 184 페이지

4.13

7,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Quantum Biology 🧫 Molecular Biology 🔄 Order And Complexity 🌡️ Thermodynamics Of Life 📜 Classic Science Essays

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

저자: Stuart Ross • 2022

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

3.84

189

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance 📝 Writing As Therapy 🎤 Confessional Poetry

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

저자: Stuart Ross 2022 141 페이지

3.84

189 개의 평점

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance 📝 Writing As Therapy 🎤 Confessional Poetry

Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

저자: Pasi Sahlberg • 2016

School reform keeps failing because America borrows the policies but not the systems behind them.

4.12

📋 Education Policy 🌍 Comparative Education 🔄 School Reform 📝 Standardized Testing 👥 Teacher Collaboration

Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

School reform keeps failing because America borrows the policies but not the systems behind them.

저자: Pasi Sahlberg 2016 144 페이지

4.12

17 개의 평점

📋 Education Policy 🌍 Comparative Education 🔄 School Reform 📝 Standardized Testing 👥 Teacher Collaboration

Find the Good

저자: Heather Lende • 2015

An obituary writer finds the secret to a good life hidden in messy, ordinary deaths she chronicles.

3.76

6,000+

💀 Obituary Writing 🤝 Community Connection ⏳ Mortality 🫴 Embracing Imperfection 🏘️ Ordinary Lives

Find the Good

An obituary writer finds the secret to a good life hidden in messy, ordinary deaths she chronicles.

저자: Heather Lende 2015 176 페이지

3.76

6,000+ 개의 평점

💀 Obituary Writing 🤝 Community Connection ⏳ Mortality 🫴 Embracing Imperfection 🏘️ Ordinary Lives

How to Dunk a Doughnut

저자: Len Fisher • 2002

A physicist unpacks the hidden forces inside a doughnut dunk, a boiled egg, and a boomerang.

3.34

277

🧪 Everyday Science 🍞 Food Science 🔬 Applied Physics 🤔 Scientific Curiosity 🧠 Critical Thinking

How to Dunk a Doughnut

A physicist unpacks the hidden forces inside a doughnut dunk, a boiled egg, and a boomerang.

저자: Len Fisher 2002 272 페이지

3.34

277 개의 평점

🧪 Everyday Science 🍞 Food Science 🔬 Applied Physics 🤔 Scientific Curiosity 🧠 Critical Thinking

Wit's End

저자: James Geary • 2018

Wit is the mind's way of connecting opposites, seeing past habit, and holding life lightly.

3.35

479

🧠 Philosophy Of Humor 🎲 Verbal Play 🔗 Metaphor And Analogy 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Perceptual Illusion

Wit's End

Wit is the mind's way of connecting opposites, seeing past habit, and holding life lightly.

저자: James Geary 2018 128 페이지

3.35

479 개의 평점

🧠 Philosophy Of Humor 🎲 Verbal Play 🔗 Metaphor And Analogy 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Perceptual Illusion

The Best Advice I Ever Got

저자: Katie Couric • 2011

CEOs, Olympians, and Oscar winners share the one piece of advice that changed their lives.

3.66

3,000+

🧭 Career Advice 📚 Curated Wisdom ⭐ Celebrity Wisdom 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏀 Bouncing Back

The Best Advice I Ever Got

CEOs, Olympians, and Oscar winners share the one piece of advice that changed their lives.

저자: Katie Couric 2011 320 페이지

3.66

3,000+ 개의 평점

🧭 Career Advice 📚 Curated Wisdom ⭐ Celebrity Wisdom 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏀 Bouncing Back

You Got Anything Stronger?

저자: Gabrielle Union • 2021

Perimenopause made Gabrielle Union want to die. Then her daughter taught her how to live.

4.11

11,000+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 👩🏾‍💼 Invisible Labor 🖤 Anti-Blackness 🩺 Women's Health

You Got Anything Stronger?

Perimenopause made Gabrielle Union want to die. Then her daughter taught her how to live.

저자: Gabrielle Union 2021 242 페이지

4.11

11,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 👩🏾‍💼 Invisible Labor 🖤 Anti-Blackness 🩺 Women's Health

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

저자: Curtis Smith • 2016

A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.

4.27

📚 Literary Criticism ⚔️ War Literature 🔄 Postmodern Fiction 💔 Trauma And Narrative 🌌 Existentialism

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.

저자: Curtis Smith 2016 188 페이지

4.27

41 개의 평점

📚 Literary Criticism ⚔️ War Literature 🔄 Postmodern Fiction 💔 Trauma And Narrative 🌌 Existentialism

Plato's Podcasts

저자: Mark Vernon • 2009

The ancients never podcasted, yet their advice on desire and resilience still outperforms self-help.

3.52

148

📜 Applied Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogue 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🌿 Epicurean Simplicity 🤔 Skeptical Wisdom

Plato's Podcasts

The ancients never podcasted, yet their advice on desire and resilience still outperforms self-help.

저자: Mark Vernon 2009 224 페이지

3.52

148 개의 평점

📜 Applied Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogue 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🌿 Epicurean Simplicity 🤔 Skeptical Wisdom

Batman, Superman, and Philosophy

저자: Nicolas Michaud • 2016

Marvel's Civil War as philosophy: the security-versus-liberty debate, and no one wins.

3.43

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🦸 Superhero Analysis 🔓 Civil Liberties 📖 Comic Book Studies

Batman, Superman, and Philosophy

Marvel's Civil War as philosophy: the security-versus-liberty debate, and no one wins.

저자: Nicolas Michaud 2016 288 페이지

3.43

30 개의 평점

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🦸 Superhero Analysis 🔓 Civil Liberties 📖 Comic Book Studies

All Things Aside

저자: Iliza Shlesinger • 2022

Modern womanhood is a series of scams. A comedian presents her receipts.

3.90

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🎤 Observational Comedy ♀️ Feminist Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 💄 Body Image Pressure 🤰 Modern Motherhood

All Things Aside

Modern womanhood is a series of scams. A comedian presents her receipts.

저자: Iliza Shlesinger 2022 256 페이지

3.90

5,000+ 개의 평점

🎤 Observational Comedy ♀️ Feminist Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 💄 Body Image Pressure 🤰 Modern Motherhood

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

저자: Cathy Guisewite • 2019

Aging parents, adult kids, and a swimsuit dressing room: 50 dispatches from midlife.

3.56

2,000+

🧾 Personal Essays 📗 Midlife Memoir 🪞 Body Image 👵 Aging Parents 💼 Modern Womanhood

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

Aging parents, adult kids, and a swimsuit dressing room: 50 dispatches from midlife.

저자: Cathy Guisewite 2019 336 페이지

3.56

2,000+ 개의 평점

🧾 Personal Essays 📗 Midlife Memoir 🪞 Body Image 👵 Aging Parents 💼 Modern Womanhood

Susan Sontag

저자: Jonathan Cott • 1978

Intelligence as a pulse, illness as biology, art as a body: the complete Sontag interview.

4.22

2,000+

📝 Cultural Criticism 🏥 Illness Narratives 📷 Photography Criticism ✍️ Writer's Vocation ⚧️ Gender Stereotypes

Susan Sontag

Intelligence as a pulse, illness as biology, art as a body: the complete Sontag interview.

저자: Jonathan Cott 1978 168 페이지

4.22

2,000+ 개의 평점

📝 Cultural Criticism 🏥 Illness Narratives 📷 Photography Criticism ✍️ Writer's Vocation ⚧️ Gender Stereotypes

Migrations to Solitude

저자: Sue Halpern • 1992

Hospitals, homes, monasteries: privacy is vanishing everywhere, and the cost is measured in dignity.

3.34

108

🔐 Privacy Erosion ⚕️ Medical Ethics 🧘 Contemplative Solitude 🏚️ Homelessness 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Migrations to Solitude

Hospitals, homes, monasteries: privacy is vanishing everywhere, and the cost is measured in dignity.

저자: Sue Halpern 1992 224 페이지

3.34

108 개의 평점

🔐 Privacy Erosion ⚕️ Medical Ethics 🧘 Contemplative Solitude 🏚️ Homelessness 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Scam Goddess

저자: Laci Mosley • 2024

A comedian's education in self-protection, from the scams hiding in church, work, beauty, and love.

3.99

1,000+

🎭 Con Artist Stories 🔍 Scam Awareness 🫀 Trusting Your Gut 🚧 Personal Boundaries 💄 Beauty Industry Critique

Scam Goddess

A comedian's education in self-protection, from the scams hiding in church, work, beauty, and love.

저자: Laci Mosley 2024 256 페이지

3.99

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Con Artist Stories 🔍 Scam Awareness 🫀 Trusting Your Gut 🚧 Personal Boundaries 💄 Beauty Industry Critique

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

저자: Gina Kolata • 2013

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

3.62

159

🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

저자: Gina Kolata 2013 498 페이지

3.62

159 개의 평점

🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The Language of the Night

저자: Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

4.28

2,000+

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

The Language of the Night

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

저자: Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 304 페이지

4.28

2,000+ 개의 평점

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

저자: The Oprah Magazine O • 2016

Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.

3.63

242

🫂 Female Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Love And Loss 📝 Essay Collections ✨ Inspirational Reflections

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.

저자: The Oprah Magazine O 2016 193 페이지

3.63

242 개의 평점

🫂 Female Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Love And Loss 📝 Essay Collections ✨ Inspirational Reflections

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

저자: Alida Nugent • 2013

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

3.38

3,000+

🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 🪞 Body Image

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

저자: Alida Nugent 2013 208 페이지

3.38

3,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 🪞 Body Image

The Stone Reader

저자: Peter Catapano • 2015

From the New York Times: 133 philosophers debate mind, morals, God, and the good life.

3.83

453

🌍 Public Philosophy 🔬 Philosophy Of Science ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

The Stone Reader

From the New York Times: 133 philosophers debate mind, morals, God, and the good life.

저자: Peter Catapano 2015 816 페이지

3.83

453 개의 평점

🌍 Public Philosophy 🔬 Philosophy Of Science ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

More Baths, Less Talking

저자: Nick Hornby • 2012

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

3.88

1,000+

📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters 🗞️ Cultural Commentary 🤔 Everyday Philosophy

More Baths, Less Talking

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

저자: Nick Hornby 2012 135 페이지

3.88

1,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters 🗞️ Cultural Commentary 🤔 Everyday Philosophy

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

저자: Marcelo Gleiser • 2016

In a trout stream, a physicist discovers that the unknown is meaning's source, not its enemy.

4.06

176

🧪 Natural Philosophy 🕊️ Science And Spirituality 🎣 Fly-Fishing ❓ Limits Of Knowledge 🌿 Mindfulness In Nature

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

In a trout stream, a physicist discovers that the unknown is meaning's source, not its enemy.

저자: Marcelo Gleiser 2016 192 페이지

4.06

176 개의 평점

🧪 Natural Philosophy 🕊️ Science And Spirituality 🎣 Fly-Fishing ❓ Limits Of Knowledge 🌿 Mindfulness In Nature

We Need New Stories

저자: Nesrine Malik • 2021

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

4.02

500+

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

We Need New Stories

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

저자: Nesrine Malik 2021 304 페이지

4.02

500+ 개의 평점

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Sound Within Sound

저자: Kate Molleson • 2022

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

4.34

181

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Sound Within Sound

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

저자: Kate Molleson 2022 312 페이지

4.34

181 개의 평점

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

And Never Stop Dancing

저자: Gordon Livingston • 2006

Thirty blunt truths: why anger hides sadness, forgiveness heals the giver, and passivity is a trap.

3.75

500+

🏛️ Stoic Resilience 🎭 Self-Deception 🕊️ Forgiveness 😶 Emotional Avoidance 🏠 Blended Families

And Never Stop Dancing

Thirty blunt truths: why anger hides sadness, forgiveness heals the giver, and passivity is a trap.

저자: Gordon Livingston 2006 208 페이지

3.75

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Stoic Resilience 🎭 Self-Deception 🕊️ Forgiveness 😶 Emotional Avoidance 🏠 Blended Families

Letters from Burma

저자: Aung San Suu Kyi • 1995

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

3.90

1,000+

🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Letters from Burma

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

저자: Aung San Suu Kyi 1995 209 페이지

3.90

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Becoming Dangerous

저자: Katie West • 2018

When lipstick is armor and ritual is rebellion, simply existing destabilizes power.

4.01

1,000+

🕯️ Feminist Spirituality 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Witchcraft ✨ Magical Resistance 🧠 Trauma Recovery 💪 Body Autonomy

Becoming Dangerous

When lipstick is armor and ritual is rebellion, simply existing destabilizes power.

저자: Katie West 2018 294 페이지

4.01

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Feminist Spirituality 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Witchcraft ✨ Magical Resistance 🧠 Trauma Recovery 💪 Body Autonomy

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