Genre :: Philosophy (57 books)

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  #570

  The Varieties of Religious Experience

  by William James

  (1 Review)

  12 Points

  "This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh.It is with no small amount of trepidation..."

  

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  #576

  The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "September 11th, rue Toullier -So this is where people come to live; I would have though it is a city to die in. "

  

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  #584

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

  by John Maynard Keynes

  (1 Review)

  9 Points

  

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  #588

  The Origins of Totalitarianism

  by Hannah Arendt

  (2 Reviews)

  8 Points

  

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  #589

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  by Milan Kundera

  (4 Reviews)

  8 Points

  "In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square."

  

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  #591

  The Alchemist

  by Paulo Coelho

  (17 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "The boy's name was Santiago."

  

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  #596

  The Affluent Society

  by John Kenneth Galbraith

  (1 Review)

  6 Points

  "Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

  

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