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A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a...
Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
The Blank Slate
by Steven Pinker, Victor Bevine
"BLANK SLATE" IS a loose translation of the medieval Latin term tabula rasa-literally, "scraped tablet."
La ciudad de las bestias
by Isabel Allende
Alexander Cold awakened at dawn, startled by a nightmare.
Bullshit Jobs
by David Graeber
In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation.
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss.
The botany of desire
by Michael Pollan, Michael Pollan
If you happened to find yourself on the banks of the Ohio River on a particular afternoon in the spring of 1806-somewher...
Collapse
by Jared M. Diamond
A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls Farm and Gardar Farm, which despite being located thousands of miles a...
The Third Chimpanzee
by Jared M. Diamond, María Corniero Fernández
IT'S OBVIOUS THAT humans are unlike all animals.
