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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

Westworld and Philosophy

저자: Richard Greene • 2018

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

3.81

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness 🔗 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology

Westworld and Philosophy

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

저자: Richard Greene 2018 312 페이지

3.81

21 개의 평점

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness 🔗 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology

The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone

저자: Shashi Tharoor • 2007

A billion people, 23 languages, one democracy: what holds India together when nothing should.

3.59

1,000+

🇮🇳 Indian Democracy 🌏 Postcolonial India 📈 Indian Economic Reform 🌐 Diaspora Studies 📝 Essay Collections

The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone

A billion people, 23 languages, one democracy: what holds India together when nothing should.

저자: Shashi Tharoor 2007 498 페이지

3.59

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇮🇳 Indian Democracy 🌏 Postcolonial India 📈 Indian Economic Reform 🌐 Diaspora Studies 📝 Essay Collections

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

저자: Aubrey Gordon • 2023

Twenty myths about fat people dismantled: the real epidemic is anti-fat bias, not body size.

4.32

11,000+

✊ Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture 🏥 Medical Bias ⚖️ Weight Stigma ♀️ Fat Feminism

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

Twenty myths about fat people dismantled: the real epidemic is anti-fat bias, not body size.

저자: Aubrey Gordon 2023 228 페이지

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11,000+ 개의 평점

✊ Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture 🏥 Medical Bias ⚖️ Weight Stigma ♀️ Fat Feminism

To Repair the World

저자: Paul Farmer • 2013

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

4.11

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🏥 Global Health Equity 🌍 Medical Anthropology 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🌱 Pragmatic Idealism 🩺 Grassroots Healthcare

To Repair the World

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

저자: Paul Farmer 2013 294 페이지

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1,000+ 개의 평점

🏥 Global Health Equity 🌍 Medical Anthropology 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🌱 Pragmatic Idealism 🩺 Grassroots Healthcare

Trick Mirror

저자: Jia Tolentino • 2019

The internet promised a self you could perfect. It delivered a performance you can never escape.

4.02

78,000+

🏛️ Cultural Criticism ✊ Feminist Critique 🌐 Internet Culture 🪞 Self-Deception 🎭 Performative Identity

Trick Mirror

The internet promised a self you could perfect. It delivered a performance you can never escape.

저자: Jia Tolentino 2019 303 페이지

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78,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Cultural Criticism ✊ Feminist Critique 🌐 Internet Culture 🪞 Self-Deception 🎭 Performative Identity

El fútbol a sol y sombra

저자: Eduardo Galeano • 1995

Before the logos and the TV contracts, soccer was a poor kid's dance. A poet remembers.

4.20

8,000+

🏟️ Soccer History 🌎 Latin American Soccer ⚖️ Sports And Politics ⚽ Football Culture ✍️ Lyrical Sports Writing

El fútbol a sol y sombra

Before the logos and the TV contracts, soccer was a poor kid's dance. A poet remembers.

저자: Eduardo Galeano 1995 279 페이지

4.20

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏟️ Soccer History 🌎 Latin American Soccer ⚖️ Sports And Politics ⚽ Football Culture ✍️ Lyrical Sports Writing

Young, Gifted, and Black

저자: Theresa Perry • 2003

Forget the white-Black comparison. The real gap is between African American students and excellence.

4.04

322

📏 Achievement Gap 📚 Black Education 🏫 Culturally Responsive Pedagogy 👩‍🏫 Teacher Quality 🌱 Asset-Based Pedagogy

Young, Gifted, and Black

Forget the white-Black comparison. The real gap is between African American students and excellence.

저자: Theresa Perry 2003 196 페이지

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322 개의 평점

📏 Achievement Gap 📚 Black Education 🏫 Culturally Responsive Pedagogy 👩‍🏫 Teacher Quality 🌱 Asset-Based Pedagogy

Standpoints

저자: Svend Brinkmann • 2018

Modernity wants a use for everything. Ten old ideas that refuse to earn their keep.

3.77

500+

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Existential Philosophy 🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🏙️ Modernity Critique 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Standpoints

Modernity wants a use for everything. Ten old ideas that refuse to earn their keep.

저자: Svend Brinkmann 2018 160 페이지

3.77

500+ 개의 평점

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Existential Philosophy 🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🏙️ Modernity Critique 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Very Good Lives

저자: J.K. Rowling • 2015

Rock bottom taught her things success never could. A commencement speech that outgrew the ceremony.

4.08

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🥀 Embracing Failure 🎓 Commencement Wisdom 🤲 Social Responsibility 🎨 Creative Resilience 💪 Moral Courage

Very Good Lives

Rock bottom taught her things success never could. A commencement speech that outgrew the ceremony.

저자: J.K. Rowling 2015 80 페이지

4.08

28,000+ 개의 평점

🥀 Embracing Failure 🎓 Commencement Wisdom 🤲 Social Responsibility 🎨 Creative Resilience 💪 Moral Courage

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

저자: Anne Helen Petersen • 2014

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

3.48

2,000+

🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

저자: Anne Helen Petersen 2014 289 페이지

3.48

2,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Yes Means Yes!

저자: Jaclyn Friedman • 2008

Rape culture silences women's desire. The real consent standard requires an enthusiastic yes.

4.20

5,000+

✋ Consent Culture 🔥 Sex-Positive Feminism ⚠️ Rape Culture 🧘 Body Politics 📚 Feminist Anthologies

Yes Means Yes!

Rape culture silences women's desire. The real consent standard requires an enthusiastic yes.

저자: Jaclyn Friedman 2008 361 페이지

4.20

5,000+ 개의 평점

✋ Consent Culture 🔥 Sex-Positive Feminism ⚠️ Rape Culture 🧘 Body Politics 📚 Feminist Anthologies

Big Questions from Little People

저자: Gemma Elwin Harris • 2012

Kids ask the universe's biggest questions. Experts reply with clarity that stuns grown-ups.

3.86

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🧒 Children's Questions 🧠 Expert Answers 💡 Simple Explanations 🔬 Science For Kids 🤔 Philosophy For Children

Big Questions from Little People

Kids ask the universe's biggest questions. Experts reply with clarity that stuns grown-ups.

저자: Gemma Elwin Harris 2012 336 페이지

3.86

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧒 Children's Questions 🧠 Expert Answers 💡 Simple Explanations 🔬 Science For Kids 🤔 Philosophy For Children

The Art of Subtext

저자: Charles Baxter • 2007

What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.

4.02

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📖 Narrative Craft ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎨 Fiction Aesthetics 🔍 Close Reading 👤 Character Depth

The Art of Subtext

What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.

저자: Charles Baxter 2007 182 페이지

4.02

1,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Narrative Craft ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎨 Fiction Aesthetics 🔍 Close Reading 👤 Character Depth

Superman Is an Arab

저자: Joumana Haddad • 2012

An Arab feminist declares war on God, marriage, and the toxic myth of the invincible man.

3.53

500+

🧕 Arab Feminism 👩 Middle Eastern Women 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🔥 Sexual Liberation ⛪ Religious Critique

Superman Is an Arab

An Arab feminist declares war on God, marriage, and the toxic myth of the invincible man.

저자: Joumana Haddad 2012 199 페이지

3.53

500+ 개의 평점

🧕 Arab Feminism 👩 Middle Eastern Women 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🔥 Sexual Liberation ⛪ Religious Critique

Spoilt Rotten

저자: dalrymple-theodore • 2010

Sentiment now governs law, schools, and foreign aid. The cruelty that follows is no accident.

3.96

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🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🗣️ Political Polemics 🔍 Rational Inquiry 🎭 Victimhood Culture ⚖️ Public Policy Critique

Spoilt Rotten

Sentiment now governs law, schools, and foreign aid. The cruelty that follows is no accident.

저자: dalrymple-theodore 2010 256 페이지

3.96

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🗣️ Political Polemics 🔍 Rational Inquiry 🎭 Victimhood Culture ⚖️ Public Policy Critique

Semicolon

저자: Cecelia Watson • 2019

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

3.68

2,000+

🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

Semicolon

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

저자: Cecelia Watson 2019 224 페이지

3.68

2,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

The Creative Writing Coursebook

저자: Julia Bell • 2001

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

3.95

363

✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

The Creative Writing Coursebook

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

저자: Julia Bell 2001 449 페이지

3.95

363 개의 평점

✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

저자: Karl Marx • 2005

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

3.63

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🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

History is class struggle, and the bourgeoisie forged the weapons now aimed at its own throat.

저자: Karl Marx 2005 224 페이지

3.63

1,000+ 개의 평점

🚩 Marxism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Historical Materialism ⚒️ Class Struggle 🏢 State Theory

Everything in Its Place

저자: Oliver Sacks • 2019

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

4.14

3,000+

🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine 👁️ Altered Perception 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry

Everything in Its Place

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

저자: Oliver Sacks 2019 288 페이지

4.14

3,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine 👁️ Altered Perception 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry

On Writing Horror

저자: Mort Castle • 1997

What makes readers afraid: the complete craft of horror writing, from first draft to small press.

3.87

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🎃 Horror Writing ✍️ Genre Writing 🧑 Characterization 🧩 Plot Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing

On Writing Horror

What makes readers afraid: the complete craft of horror writing, from first draft to small press.

저자: Mort Castle 1997 272 페이지

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1,000+ 개의 평점

🎃 Horror Writing ✍️ Genre Writing 🧑 Characterization 🧩 Plot Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

저자: Pico Iyer • 2019

Why 32 years in Japan taught Pico Iyer less than his first week.

3.81

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🗾 Travel Essays 🎭 Japanese Culture 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🤫 Indirect Communication 👥 Social Conformity

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

Why 32 years in Japan taught Pico Iyer less than his first week.

저자: Pico Iyer 2019 240 페이지

3.81

2,000+ 개의 평점

🗾 Travel Essays 🎭 Japanese Culture 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🤫 Indirect Communication 👥 Social Conformity

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

저자: John Allen Paulos • 1997

The morning paper rests on hidden math. A mathematician reveals the numbers that change the story.

3.60

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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

The morning paper rests on hidden math. A mathematician reveals the numbers that change the story.

저자: John Allen Paulos 1997 224 페이지

3.60

1,000+ 개의 평점

Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It

저자: Elizabeth Gilbert • 2016

One memoir, a million life reinventions. The readers who followed its map tell what they discovered.

3.53

3,000+

🌍 Transformative Travel ✍️ Personal Essays 🔄 Life Reinvention 🙏 Spiritual Journeys 💔 Post-Divorce Recovery

Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It

One memoir, a million life reinventions. The readers who followed its map tell what they discovered.

저자: Elizabeth Gilbert 2016 240 페이지

3.53

3,000+ 개의 평점

🌍 Transformative Travel ✍️ Personal Essays 🔄 Life Reinvention 🙏 Spiritual Journeys 💔 Post-Divorce Recovery

How to Read and Why

저자: Harold Bloom • 2000

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

3.61

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📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading 🎨 Aesthetic Pleasure 📖 Lifelong Reading

How to Read and Why

Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.

저자: Harold Bloom 2000 288 페이지

3.61

3,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Western Canon 🔍 Close Reading 🧘 Solitary Reading 🎨 Aesthetic Pleasure 📖 Lifelong Reading

Arguing with Zombies

저자: Paul Krugman • 2020

Dead economic ideas still shape policy. A Nobel laureate on why they survive and what they cost.

3.86

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💰 Income Inequality 📊 Economic Policy 📝 Political Commentary 📈 Keynesian Economics 🌎 Climate Economics

Arguing with Zombies

Dead economic ideas still shape policy. A Nobel laureate on why they survive and what they cost.

저자: Paul Krugman 2020 464 페이지

3.86

2,000+ 개의 평점

💰 Income Inequality 📊 Economic Policy 📝 Political Commentary 📈 Keynesian Economics 🌎 Climate Economics

Design Your Work

저자: Tiago Forte • 2017

Four steps to turn the notes you're already taking into a personal creative engine.

4.04

194

🧠 Knowledge Management ✅ Personal Productivity 🎨 Creative Workflow 💾 Digital Curation 📝 Note-Taking Systems

Design Your Work

Four steps to turn the notes you're already taking into a personal creative engine.

저자: Tiago Forte 2017 303 페이지

4.04

194 개의 평점

🧠 Knowledge Management ✅ Personal Productivity 🎨 Creative Workflow 💾 Digital Curation 📝 Note-Taking Systems

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

저자: Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

4.18

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✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

저자: Joan Didion 1968 238 페이지

4.18

84,000+ 개의 평점

✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

The Two Cultures

저자: C.P. Snow • 1959

A scientist's 1959 warning: the rift between science and the humanities is a crisis of civilization.

3.66

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📜 Intellectual History 🔬 Science And Society 🧪 Scientific Literacy 🏫 Education Reform 🏭 Industrialization

The Two Cultures

A scientist's 1959 warning: the rift between science and the humanities is a crisis of civilization.

저자: C.P. Snow 1959 180 페이지

3.66

1,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Intellectual History 🔬 Science And Society 🧪 Scientific Literacy 🏫 Education Reform 🏭 Industrialization

Role Models

저자: John Waters • 2010

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

4.07

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🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Role Models

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

저자: John Waters 2010 304 페이지

4.07

8,000+ 개의 평점

🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps

저자: Alan Gelb • 2013

A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.

3.66

154

📝 College Admissions 📄 Application Essays 📖 Narrative Writing 🏗️ Essay Structure 🎤 Authentic Voice

Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps

A narrative arc, not a list of honors: the story structure that gets you in.

저자: Alan Gelb 2013 226 페이지

3.66

154 개의 평점

📝 College Admissions 📄 Application Essays 📖 Narrative Writing 🏗️ Essay Structure 🎤 Authentic Voice

The Meaning of Things

저자: A.C. Grayling • 2001

Love, hate, and happiness: what philosophy knows that we keep forgetting.

3.86

1,000+

🧭 Practical Philosophy 🌍 Secular Humanism 🏛️ Classical Philosophy 🌟 Meaning And Purpose 🦉 Happiness And Wisdom

The Meaning of Things

Love, hate, and happiness: what philosophy knows that we keep forgetting.

저자: A.C. Grayling 2001 208 페이지

3.86

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧭 Practical Philosophy 🌍 Secular Humanism 🏛️ Classical Philosophy 🌟 Meaning And Purpose 🦉 Happiness And Wisdom

Greek to Me

저자: Mary Norris • 2019

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

3.63

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Greek to Me

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

저자: Mary Norris 2019 240 페이지

3.63

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Science Fiction

저자: David Seed • 2011

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

3.31

500+

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

Science Fiction

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

저자: David Seed 2011 147 페이지

3.31

500+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

World Travel

저자: Anthony Bourdain • 2021

For people who hate guidebooks: Bourdain's rules for eating, drinking, and finding the real story.

3.63

13,000+

🍽️ Food And Travel 🧭 Travel Philosophy 🏘️ Local Immersion 🚫 Anti-Tourism 🎤 Gonzo Journalism

World Travel

For people who hate guidebooks: Bourdain's rules for eating, drinking, and finding the real story.

저자: Anthony Bourdain 2021 480 페이지

3.63

13,000+ 개의 평점

🍽️ Food And Travel 🧭 Travel Philosophy 🏘️ Local Immersion 🚫 Anti-Tourism 🎤 Gonzo Journalism

The Best Strangers in the World

저자: Ari Shapiro • 2023

He follows a Syrian refugee and sings with a band; his real job is listening.

4.02

6,000+

📻 Radio Journalism 🌍 Foreign Correspondence 🎙️ Storytelling Craft 🔍 Curiosity As Practice 💞 Radical Empathy

The Best Strangers in the World

He follows a Syrian refugee and sings with a band; his real job is listening.

저자: Ari Shapiro 2023 256 페이지

4.02

6,000+ 개의 평점

📻 Radio Journalism 🌍 Foreign Correspondence 🎙️ Storytelling Craft 🔍 Curiosity As Practice 💞 Radical Empathy

Kundalini Rising

저자: Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa • 2007

Coiled at the spine's base, an evolutionary energy can ignite spontaneously and redraw the self.

3.96

300

🐍 Kundalini Awakening 🌀 Chakra Systems ⚡ Energy Healing 🕉️ Tantric Traditions 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Kundalini Rising

Coiled at the spine's base, an evolutionary energy can ignite spontaneously and redraw the self.

저자: Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa 2007 408 페이지

3.96

300 개의 평점

🐍 Kundalini Awakening 🌀 Chakra Systems ⚡ Energy Healing 🕉️ Tantric Traditions 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

저자: Richard Greene • 2007

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

3.73

201

🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

저자: Richard Greene 2007 288 페이지

3.73

201 개의 평점

🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

The Cottage Fairy Companion

저자: Paola Merrill • 2022

You do not need the cottage. The slow life and its wonder are built from the inside out.

4.29

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🐌 Slow Living 🍄 Cottagecore ✨ Finding Wonder 🫂 Self-Acceptance 🧘 Introvert Life

The Cottage Fairy Companion

You do not need the cottage. The slow life and its wonder are built from the inside out.

저자: Paola Merrill 2022 180 페이지

4.29

1,000+ 개의 평점

🐌 Slow Living 🍄 Cottagecore ✨ Finding Wonder 🫂 Self-Acceptance 🧘 Introvert Life

Slanted

저자: Sharyl Attkisson • 2020

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

4.31

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Slanted

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

저자: Sharyl Attkisson 2020 316 페이지

4.31

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Gathering Moss

저자: Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2003

They drink fog, build forests, bridge worlds. A scientist and Potawatomi woman on what mosses know.

4.38

21,000+

🌿 Botanical Writing 🧡 Indigenous Ecology 📝 Essay Collections 👁️ Attentive Observation 🔬 Microscopic Worlds

Gathering Moss

They drink fog, build forests, bridge worlds. A scientist and Potawatomi woman on what mosses know.

저자: Robin Wall Kimmerer 2003 168 페이지

4.38

21,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Botanical Writing 🧡 Indigenous Ecology 📝 Essay Collections 👁️ Attentive Observation 🔬 Microscopic Worlds

Mentor

저자: Tom Pace • 2007

A comedy writer's journey from wallflower to Hollywood, filled with humor and hard-won advice.

4.04

500+

😂 Humorous Memoir 👯 Female Friendship 💪 Body Image 🎬 Hollywood Career 🤷 Self-Deprecating

Mentor

A comedy writer's journey from wallflower to Hollywood, filled with humor and hard-won advice.

저자: Tom Pace 2007 175 페이지

4.04

500+ 개의 평점

😂 Humorous Memoir 👯 Female Friendship 💪 Body Image 🎬 Hollywood Career 🤷 Self-Deprecating

The Mummy at the Dining Room Table

저자: Jeffrey A. Kottler • 2003

Unusual patients forced the best therapists to abandon the textbook. What they improvised instead.

3.88

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🔍 Unusual Case Studies 💡 Therapy Breakthroughs 🤝 Relational Healing 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems 🎨 Creative Interventions

The Mummy at the Dining Room Table

Unusual patients forced the best therapists to abandon the textbook. What they improvised instead.

저자: Jeffrey A. Kottler 2003 325 페이지

3.88

500+ 개의 평점

🔍 Unusual Case Studies 💡 Therapy Breakthroughs 🤝 Relational Healing 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems 🎨 Creative Interventions

The Faraway Nearby

저자: Rebecca Solnit • 2013

The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.

4.20

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📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays 🕸️ Interconnectedness 🌿 Nature Writing 🧭 Meaning Making

The Faraway Nearby

The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.

저자: Rebecca Solnit 2013 271 페이지

4.20

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📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays 🕸️ Interconnectedness 🌿 Nature Writing 🧭 Meaning Making

Poser

저자: Claire Dederer • 2010

Yoga undid her. Here is why a Seattle mother spent years trying to nail a backbend.

3.57

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👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood 🧘‍♀️ Mom Perfectionism 💔 Generational Divorce 🧘 Yoga Memoir ✍️ Art And Motherhood

Poser

Yoga undid her. Here is why a Seattle mother spent years trying to nail a backbend.

저자: Claire Dederer 2010 352 페이지

3.57

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👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood 🧘‍♀️ Mom Perfectionism 💔 Generational Divorce 🧘 Yoga Memoir ✍️ Art And Motherhood

Hatred of Democracy

저자: Jacques Rancière • 2005

Democracy is not about elections. It is the scandal that no one is born to rule.

3.72

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 💰 Oligarchy Critique 👥 Popular Sovereignty 🎭 Representation Critique

Hatred of Democracy

Democracy is not about elections. It is the scandal that no one is born to rule.

저자: Jacques Rancière 2005 106 페이지

3.72

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 💰 Oligarchy Critique 👥 Popular Sovereignty 🎭 Representation Critique

Step Across This Line

저자: Salman Rushdie • 2002

A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.

3.93

1,000+

✍️ Literary Essays 🗣️ Free Speech Defense 🌐 Cultural Hybridity 🪪 Postcolonial Identity ⚠️ Religious Intolerance

Step Across This Line

A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.

저자: Salman Rushdie 2002 317 페이지

3.93

1,000+ 개의 평점

✍️ Literary Essays 🗣️ Free Speech Defense 🌐 Cultural Hybridity 🪪 Postcolonial Identity ⚠️ Religious Intolerance

An Everlasting Meal

저자: Tamar Adler • 2011

The case for simpler cooking: boil water, batch-cook vegetables, save every scrap, trust yourself.

4.20

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🏠 Home Cooking 📝 Food Essays 🥡 Batch Cooking 🗑️ Food Waste Reduction 🎨 Improvisational Cooking

An Everlasting Meal

The case for simpler cooking: boil water, batch-cook vegetables, save every scrap, trust yourself.

저자: Tamar Adler 2011 272 페이지

4.20

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Home Cooking 📝 Food Essays 🥡 Batch Cooking 🗑️ Food Waste Reduction 🎨 Improvisational Cooking

How to Say No

저자: Diogenes of Sinope • 2022

Freedom's secret from the man who lived in a jar: say no to everything society worships.

3.40

273

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🐕 Classical Cynicism 🪴 Minimalist Living 🚫 Social Nonconformity 🧱 Self-Sufficiency

How to Say No

Freedom's secret from the man who lived in a jar: say no to everything society worships.

저자: Diogenes of Sinope 2022 248 페이지

3.40

273 개의 평점

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🐕 Classical Cynicism 🪴 Minimalist Living 🚫 Social Nonconformity 🧱 Self-Sufficiency

I Don't Want to Die Poor

저자: Michael Arceneaux • 2020

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

3.71

1,000+

💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

I Don't Want to Die Poor

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

저자: Michael Arceneaux 2020 240 페이지

3.71

1,000+ 개의 평점

💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

Movement Matters

저자: Katy Bowman • 2016

Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.

4.28

500+

🧬 Evolutionary Health 🪑 Sedentary Culture 🌍 Ecological Living 🏋️ Functional Movement 🌿 Nature Connection

Movement Matters

Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.

저자: Katy Bowman 2016 248 페이지

4.28

500+ 개의 평점

🧬 Evolutionary Health 🪑 Sedentary Culture 🌍 Ecological Living 🏋️ Functional Movement 🌿 Nature Connection

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