Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in...
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Author: De Botton, AlainSummary:Genre: Philosophy, Psychology, Self-help publications
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Author: De Botton, AlainSummary:
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a...
Genre: Art and architecture, Philosophy -
Author: De Botton, AlainSummary:
Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common...
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Author: Al-Khalili, JimSummary:
British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.
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Author: Lewis, C. S.Summary:
This definitive collection of short fiction explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind.
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Author: Cherry-Garrard, ApsleySummary:
This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard....
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Author: Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his...
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Author: Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
In the conclusion to Kay's fantasy trilogy, five university students from our world preparing to sacrifice themselves as they enter into final battle against a power of unimaginable...
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Author: Kay, Guy GavrielSummary:
College students Dave, Paul, Kim, Kevin, and Jennifer return to the magical land of Fionavar to battle the minions of Rakoth Maugrim. But this time, Jennifer is pregnant with a god's baby--...
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Author: Lewis, C. S.Summary:
Have we been taught to discount the veracity and deeper meaning of our emotional resonance with the world around us? In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English...
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Author: Alan Moore and David LloydSummary:
In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V," a beguiling and charismatic figure who launches a one-man...
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Author: Novik, NaomiSummary:
A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have...
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Author: Nesser, HakanSummary:
The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one...
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Author: Wheen, FrancisSummary:
In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished...
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Author: Willocks, TimSummary:
May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the Knights' Christian...
Genre: Historical fiction