Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more
The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe (University of Haifa, Israel University of Exeter
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend ...Show more
A Gift Of Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'[He] inspired a generation ...He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in ...Show more
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. ...Show more
The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of mo ...Show more
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad by Travis Rieder
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
How Psychology Works: The Facts Visually Explained
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Explore the human mind and understand the science behind how you and other people in your life think and act in a wide range of everyday situations with this brand new visual guide to applied psychology. Using straightforward definitions and clear, striking visuals, The Psychology Handbookmakes the work ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more