en-US Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:44:22 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 364284 Man and Superman in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling. In this powerful drama of ideas, Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and his theory of Creative Evolution. As Stanley Weintraub says in his new introduction, this is "the first great twentieth-century English play" and remains a classic exposé of the eternal struggle between the sexes.

This edition:
Man and Superman was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC's Third Program on October 1, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatization.

"A comedy and a philosophy", Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme, and using all the elements from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Shaw reordered them so that Don Juan becomes the quarry instead of the huntsman.

Boasting an outstanding cast including Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, Dame Judi Dench, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, and Paul Merton, this release includes an exclusive interview with director Sir Peter Hall.]]> 288 George Bernard Shaw 0140437886 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.85 1903
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]]> 8273060 110 H.P. Lovecraft Thrasos 4 4.13 1944
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]]> 196868092
Amidst the grim landscape of thoughtcrime and doublethink, Winston embarks on a perilous journey to reclaim his autonomy and expose the suffocating control of the Party. Battling against the erasure of memory and the distortion of reality, he discovers the power of love, resistance, and the indomitable human spirit.

Orwell's gripping narrative thrusts readers into a world where freedom is fragile and the battle for truth is relentless. As Winston navigates the treacherous labyrinth of deception, "1984" becomes a riveting exploration of the nature of authority, the manipulation of information, and the unbreakable will to resist.

A cautionary tale as relevant today as it was upon its publication, "1984" is a chilling reminder of the dangers of unchecked power and the importance of defending the sanctity of thought and expression. Orwell's searing prose and visionary storytelling combine to create a timeless work that continues to challenge, inspire, and provoke introspection.]]> 335 George Orwell 1998114287 Thrasos 0 currently-reading 4.26 1949
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]]> 56019043
In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.

In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless.

While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.]]> 382 Jordan B. Peterson 0593084640 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.14 2021
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]]> 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Thrasos 0 to-read 3.97 1928
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]]> 11
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Thrasos 0 to-read 4.21 1979
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]]> 6440 Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present.]]> 496 Walter Scott Thrasos 0 to-read 3.76 1819
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]]> 1319 168 Steven Pressfield 0446691437 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.95 2002
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]]> 29959049 587 Makarios Drousiotis Thrasos 0 to-read 4.57
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]]> 91692788
Η έρευνα για υποθέσεις διαφθοράς στις οποίες ενέχονται άτομα στα ανώτατα δώματα της εξουσίας εμπεριέχει κινδύνους. Η συγγραφή αυτού του βιβλίου ήταν μια διαρκής προσωπική περιπέτεια. Οι τηλεφωνικές και ηλεκτρονικές επικοινωνίες μου, όπως και οι κινήσεις μου, παρακολουθούνται, πράκτορες έχουν σταλεί στο σπίτι μου και εγκατέστησαν κακόβουλο λογισμικό στον υπολογιστή μου, και τα κείμενά μου υποκλέπτονται. Στο βιβλίο αυτό καταγράφεται όλο το ιστορικό της παραβίασης της προσωπικής μου ζωής.

Η έννοια του κράτους δικαίου στην Κύπρο είναι ανύπαρκτη. Η ανοχή των πολιτών και η απουσία λογοδοσίας εξέθρεψε τη διαφθορά και υπονόμευσε την ποιότητα της δημοκρατίας. Ο μέσος πολίτης είναι εθισμένος στη σιωπή. Η λαϊκή... προτροπή "κρύψε να περάσουμε" αποδίδει επαρκώς την πραγματικότητα. Η προσδοκία είναι ότι αυτή η εργασία θα συμβάλει στην ανάπτυξη κοινωνικής ευαισθησίας προς την αντίθετη κατεύθυνση.

(Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)]]> 284 Makarios Drousiotis 9963631150 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.10
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]]> 59974758
Είναι ταυτόχρονα μια μαρτυρία για τον τρόπο με τον οποίο κυβερνάται η χώρα, για τη διαδικασία λήψης αποφάσεων για σημαντικά ζητήματα και για τις επιρροές των ξένων συμφερόντων στο σύστημα εξουσίας, περιλαμβανομένων και των μέσων ενημέρωσης.

Οι εξαρτήσεις, η διαφθορά, η πολιτική δειλία και η ανικανότητα είναι τα κύρια χαρακτηριστικά του πολιτικού προσωπικού, και αυτά έχουν καθορίσει τις εξελίξεις στο μεγάλο εθνικό ζήτημα. Στην τελευταία παράγραφο του βιβλίου "Η Συμμορία" αναφέρω ότι η διαφθορά είναι το κύριο εθνικό πρόβλημα της Κύπρου και ότι όλα τα υπόλοιπα είναι παράγωγά της. Στο βιβλίο αυτό πιστεύω ότι η θέση αυτή τεκμηριώνεται.

Οι πηγές μου είναι πληροφορίες και πρωτογενές αδημοσίευτο υλικό που εξασφάλισα ως ειδικός συνεργάτης του Προέδρου Αναστασιάδη την περίοδο 2013-2014 και ως προσωπικός βοηθός του επιτρόπου Χρήστου Στυλιανίδη στην ΕΕ από τα τέλη του 2014 μέχρι τις αρχές του 2020.

Έλαχε και διασταύρωσα τα βήματά μου με ιστορικά γεγονότα, έζησα εμπειρίες που κανένας άλλος δεν είχε την ευκαιρία να βιώσει και να έχει ταυτόχρονα τη διάθεση ή τη δυνατότητα να τις γράψει. Θεωρώ ότι είναι υποχρέωσή μου να τις μοιραστώ με την κοινωνία.

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]]> 56677075
Το βράδυ της Πέμπτης, 22ας Μαρτίου, ήταν η στιγμή που το πολιτικό σύστημα συνειδητοποίησε ότι είχε πράξει σοβαρό σφάλμα. Οι προσδοκίες για βοήθεια από τη Μόσχα διαψεύστηκαν. Το ίδιο και η πρόβλεψη ότι θα κατέρρεε το ευρώ και ότι θα έπεφταν όλοι στα πόδια της Κύπρου για ν' αποδεχθεί μια συμφωνία με τους δικούς της όρους. Ο κόσμος ήταν στις ουρές των αυτόματων ταμειακών μηχανών αποσύροντας μετρητά. Τα μηνύματα από την Κεντρική Τράπεζα ανέφεραν ότι ήταν ζήτημα ωρών να καταρρεύσει η Λαϊκή Τράπεζα και ότι μαζί της θα παρέσυρε ολόκληρο το οικοδόμημα της κυπριακής οικονομίας.

Βρισκόμουν στον προθάλαμο του γραφείου του Αναστασιάδη. Πήρα ένα σημειωματάριο, έγραψα την ημερομηνία και άρχισα να τηρώ καθημερινό ημερολόγιο καταγράφοντας τα γεγονότα που έβλεπα και ζούσα σε όλη τη διάρκεια της σύντομης θητείας μου, για όλο το φάσμα των ζητημάτων που απασχόλησαν την Προεδρία. Το κίνητρό μου, όταν άρχισα το ημερολόγιο, ήταν να καταγράψω τη στιγμή που μαζί με την οικονομία θα κατέρρεε και ο λαϊκισμός. Τελικά αυτό που κατέγραψα, αποτυπώνοντας τον τρόπο με τον οποίο το πολιτικό προσωπικό διαχειρίστηκε την πρωτόγνωρη αυτή κρίση, είναι μια μαρτυρία για τη διαφθορά της εξουσίας.

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]]> 23754
In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey, Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman.

This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death.

Includes issues 1-8 of the original series.]]> 240 Neil Gaiman 1563892278 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.25 1988
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]]> 40382571 Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition

Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this masterful translation.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.]]> 981 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Thrasos 0 currently-reading 4.20 1615
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name: Thrasos
average rating: 4.20
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]]> 145624504
Now is the best time in history for entrepreneurship. More than ever, the world needs new businesses and it’s cheaper than ever to create them.

And, let’s be most day jobs suck. People spend too much time doing too much work for too little money—and they know it.��They want out.

But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few entrepreneurs actually running them?��

Ask ��


All those Frequent Excuses are solvable. The plan is simple—so simple it can be completed in a single weekend, but so powerful that Kagan has used to build seven businesses now worth more than $1 ��


By Monday, you’ll have a market-tested, scalable business idea and you’ll be a entrepreneur on the path to seven figures. Million Dollar Weekend is the path to creating your dream life and attaining financial freedom. LFG.]]> 240 Noah Kagan 059353977X Thrasos 0 to-read 4.08
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]]> 58315523 Η αρχαιολογία, όπως και η αρχαιότητα, ανήκει σε όλους μας. Είναι απολαυστική, συγκινητική, τρομακτική, χιουμοριστική, μας εμπνέει και μας δείχνει τι θα πει άνθρωπος στο σύνολο της ύπαρξής του σε αυτή τη γαλάζια μπίλια που πλέει στο σύμπαν και λέγεται Γη. Η αρχαιολογία είναι μια πανανθρώπινα ψυχοθεραπευτική επιστήμη. Οι τόσοι αιώνες αρχαίας πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς στον ελλαδικό χώρο συχνά μοιάζουν δύσκολοι στην κατανόηση. Δεν είναι. Ξεκινώντας από τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα, ο Archaeostoryteller, ένα project Επικοινωνίας της Επιστήμης, «σπάει τους κανόνες» και φέρνει την αρχαιολογία στο ευρύ κοινό με εύθυμο τρόπο.
Αυτό το βιβλίο παρουσιάζει ολόκληρη την ελληνική αρχαιότητα, από τη βαθιά προϊστορία μέχρι το τέλος της. Δύο άγνωστοι συναντιούνται σε ένα ασανσέρ, το οποίο σταματά μεταξύ ορόφων. Ο ένας είναι αρχαιολόγος, ο άλλος όχι. Με αφορμή την ερώτηση «με τι ασχολείσαι» ξεκινάει ένας συναρπαστικός διάλογος και ένα ταξίδι στον χώρο και στον χρόνο. Παράλληλα δίνονται απαντήσεις στις πιο κοινές ερωτήσεις για την επιστήμη της αρχαιολογίας. Μια απολαυστική διαδρομή στις πιο μεγάλες στιγμές αλλά και στις πιο μικρές ιστορίες ανθρώπων της ελληνικής αρχαιότητας, η οποία, ακόμη κι αν δεν χωράει στο ασανσέρ, χωράει σίγουρα στη φαντασία μας.

Πε��ιεχόμενα
Πρόλογος του Καθηγητή Δημήτρη Πλάντζου
Σημείωμα του συγγραφέα
ΕισαγӬγή
1. Άνοιξε πέτρα να διαβώ
[Η Εποχή του Λίθου]
FAQ: Τι είναι η αρχαιολογία;
2. Του Αιγαίου τα blues
[Κυκλαδικός Πολιτισμός]
FAQ: Ποιος ήταν ο πρώτος αρχαιολόγος;
3. Σήκω χόρεψε, κουκλί μου, να σε δω να σε χαρώ
[Μινωικός Πολιτισμός]
FAQ: Τι εννοείς «όχι μόνο σκάψιμο»;
4. Κι άμα τα πάρω, θα πάρω φόρα
[Μυκηναϊκός Πολιτισμός]
FAQ: Πώς χρονολογούνται τα ευρήματα;
5. Τι λείπει, τι φταίει και η καρδιά μου κλαίει
[Σκοτεινοί Αιώνες]
FAQ: Υπάρχουν διαφωνίες στην επιστημονική κοινότητα;
6. Μια λεμονιά ανθίζει στη γειτονιά
[Γεωμετρική Εποχή]
FAQ: Έκαναν εκείνο, το άλλο και το παράλλο στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα; Οι «χειρότερες» ερωτήσεις
7. Μεσοπέλαγα αρμενίζω κι έχω πλώρα τον καημό
[Αρχαϊκή Εποχή]
FAQ: Δεν θα ξαναπώ δύσκολες λέξεις, Φάνη μου! Γιατί τόση ορολογία;
8. Σιγά μην κλάψω, σιγά μη φοβηθώ
[Περσικοί Πόλεμοι]
FAQ: Πώς θάβονται οι πόλεις και τα αρχαία τόσο βαθιά στο χώμα;
9. Θα 'ναι σαν να μπαίνει η άνοιξη
[Κλασική Εποχή]
FAQ: Ποιο είναι το σημαντικότερο εύρημα σε μια ανασκαφή;
10. Κυκλοφορώ κι οπλοφορώ
��Μεγαλέξανδ��ος��
FAQ: Γιατί είναι τόσο χάος η μυθολογία;
11. Πάμε για άλλες πολιτείες
[Ελληνιστική Εποχή]
FAQ: Έχει σκοτεινή πλευρά η αρχαιότητα;
12. Πόσο γλυκά με σκοτώνεις
[Ρωμαϊκή Εποχή]
Επίλογος
Βιβλιογραφικές προτάσεις]]> 288 Theodore Papakostas 6185265508 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.21 2021
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]]> 144006 160 James Gurney 0060530642 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.27 1992
author: James Gurney
name: Thrasos
average rating: 4.27
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]]> 42844155 An alternative cover for this ASIN can be found here

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!]]> 333 J.K. Rowling Thrasos 5 4.47 1997
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average rating: 4.47
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]]> 28699254 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9781781100226

Harry Potter is a wizard in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Alongside his best friends—Ron and Hermione—he quickly becomes immersed in the daily routine of magical studies, including Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and, of course, Quidditch.

However, the school year takes a dark and unsettling turn when mysterious and frightening events begin to unfold. Harry starts hearing strange voices that no one else can hear, and soon after, Ron's sister, Ginny, vanishes without a trace...]]> 357 J.K. Rowling Thrasos 0 currently-reading 4.62 1998
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]]> 28265021 In ancient times, the Nameless City was built and inhabited by an unnamed race of reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a crocodile and a seal with a strange head common to neither, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose and an alligator-like jaw. These beings moved by crawling; thus, the architecture of the city has very low ceilings and some places are too low for a human being to stand upright. Their city was originally coastal, but when the seas receded it was left in the depths of a desert. This resulted in the decline and eventual ruin of the city.]]> 20 H.P. Lovecraft Thrasos 0 to-read 3.48 1921
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name: Thrasos
average rating: 3.48
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]]> 18144590 The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.]]> 182 Paulo Coelho 0062315005 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.01 1988
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name: Thrasos
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]]> 17274667
More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.

A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared.

Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.]]> 458 Dmitry Glukhovsky 1481845705 Thrasos 0 currently-reading 4.07 2002
author: Dmitry Glukhovsky
name: Thrasos
average rating: 4.07
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]]> 2054 379 Raymond Chandler 0394757688 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.19 1953
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Thrasos
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 29999 213 Dashiell Hammett Thrasos 0 to-read 3.89 1930
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Thrasos
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1930
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]]> 14680
With beautiful illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker.]]> 532 Stendhal 0679783180 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.87 1839
author: Stendhal
name: Thrasos
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1839
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]]> 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.31 1967
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]]> 629 Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son.]]> 540 Robert M. Pirsig 0060589469 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.78 1974
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]]> 141078 896 Henri Troyat 0802137687 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.34 1965
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]]> 656
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.


Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.]]> 1392 Leo Tolstoy 0192833987 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.14 1869
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]]> 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.81 1952
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]]> 6185 You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.

New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.

Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.]]> 464 Emily Brontë Thrasos 0 to-read 3.89 1847
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]]> 31785 The Will to Power, compiled from the notebooks, is one of the most famous books of the past hundred years, but few have studied it. Here is the first critical edition in any language.

Down through the Nazi period The Will to Power, was often mistakenly considered to be Nietzche’s crowning systematic labor; since World War II it has frequently been denigrated. In fact, it represents a stunning selection from Nietzsche’s notebooks, in a topical arrangement that enables the reader to find what Nietzsche wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, the theory of knowledge, and whatever else interested him. But no previous edition—even in the original German—shows which notes Nietzsche utilized subsequently in his works, and which sections are not paralleled in the finished books. Nor has any previous edition furnished a commentary or index.

Walter Kaufmann, in collaboration with R. J. Holilngdale, brings to this volume his unsurpassed skills as a Nietzsche translator and scholar. Professor Kaufmann has included an approximate date of each note. His running footnote commentary offers information needed to follow Nietzsche’s train of thought, and indicates, among other things, which notes were eventually superseded by later formulations. The comprehensive index serves to guide the reader to the extraordinary riches of this book.]]> 575 Friedrich Nietzsche 0394704371 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.06 1901
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]]> 14662 The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature.

Roger Gard's fine translation remains faithful to the natural, conversational tone of the original, while his introduction elucidates the complexities of Julien's character. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading and an appendix on Stendhal's use of epigraphs.]]> 577 Stendhal 0140447644 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.91 1830
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]]> 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.25 1960
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]]> 1102322
In The Stone Angel , Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant.

"This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."—Robertson Davies, New York Times

"It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."—Honor Tracy, The New Republic

"Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."�� Atlantic

"[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing—and the most touching—portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth ."�� Time

"Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review

" The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."—Paul Pickrel, Harper's]]> 316 Margaret Laurence 0771099894 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.76 1964
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]]> 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.22 1869
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]]> 401876
Six eager interns—they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be.���� They came from the top of their medical school class����to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a����year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer����the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile����nurses.

But only the Fat Man—the Clam, all-knowing resident—could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.]]> 397 Samuel Shem 0385337388 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.83 1978
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]]> 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.36 1880
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]]> 376465 432 Joyce Cary 0940322196 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.00 1944
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]]> 70561 The Gulag Archipelago 1918��1956—a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle—has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.]]> 512 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0060007761 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.31 1973
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]]> 254316 Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous�� Soviet police state.]]> 576 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Thrasos 0 to-read 4.23 1967
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]]> 98969
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.

At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps.

His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men.

A landmark of Soviet literature, 'The First Circle' is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago.]]> 580 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0810115905 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.22 1968
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]]> 10841944
Η ιστορία τοποθετείται στον Κάστελο, ένα απομονωμένο χωριό της Μακεδονίας, στα χρόνια του Εμφυλίου. Το χωριό βρίσκεται υπό τον έλεγχο του στρατού και πολιορκείται από τους αντάρτες. Ο ιερέας του, ο παπα-Γιάνναρος, στέκεται ανάμεσα στις δύο παρατάξεις και προσπαθεί να τις συμφιλιώσει.

Ωστόσο, όλες του οι παραινέσεις αντιμετωπίζονται με αδιαφορία, αφού κάθε παράταξη τον θεωρεί όργανο της άλλης. Ο παπα-Γιάνναρος αναρωτιέται πού βρίσκεται το δίκιο· παρ' όλο που το κοινωνικό όραμα των ανταρτών του φαίνεται σωστό σε κάποια σημεία, τον προβληματίζει η απάνθρωπη συμπεριφορά τους.

Ενώ η κατάσταση στον Κάστελο είναι τραγική, παίρνει τη μεγάλη απόφαση: συναντά τον αρχηγό των ανταρτών, τον καπετάν Δράκο (που είναι γιος του) και συμφωνεί να του παραδώσει το χωριό, με τον όρο να μην πειράξει κανέναν. Στη συνέχεια, απευθύνεται στους χωρικούς και τους πείθει να δεχτούν τη συμφιλίωση. Όμως, μόλις οι αντάρτες μπαίνουν στον Κάστελο, ο καπετάν Δράκος εκτελεί 12 άτομα.

Θεωρώντας τον εαυτό του υπεύθυνο για το θάνατό τους, ο παπα-Γιάνναρος δηλώνει ότι θα γυρίσει όλα τα χωριά για να συμφιλιώσει τους ανθρώπους και να τους πει να μην πιστεύουν ούτε τους «μαύρους» ούτε τους «κόκκινους». Έχει ήδη αρχίσει να απομακρύνεται, όταν ο καπετάν Δράκος διατάζει να τον σκοτώσουν.]]> 289 Nikos Kazantzakis 9607948289 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.13 1963
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]]> 7442 416 Tom Wolfe 0553380648 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.93 1968
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]]> 18304 126 Friedrich Nietzsche 1421270536 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.97 1895
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]]> 529626 The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.]]> 628 Ken Kesey 0140045295 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.26 1964
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]]> 30553 215 George Orwell Thrasos 0 to-read 3.92 1937
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]]> 2052
This is an alternate cover edition.]]> 231 Raymond Chandler 0394758285 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.96 1939
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]]> 80449 On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience.]]> 208 Friedrich Nietzsche 019283617X Thrasos 0 to-read 4.16 1887
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]]> 51893 Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics.

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life passionate, chaotic and free.]]> 327 Friedrich Nietzsche Thrasos 0 to-read 4.10 1883
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]]> 49455 Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Thrasos 0 to-read 4.21 1864
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]]> 332613 9780451163967

Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy �� the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.]]> 325 Ken Kesey Thrasos 0 to-read 4.20 1962
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]]> 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.70 1954
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]]> 5130 Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.]]> 354 Aldous Huxley 0060085495 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.87 1962
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]]> 4406
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.

First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.]]> 601 John Steinbeck 0142000655 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.41 1952
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]]> 7745 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.]]> 204 Hunter S. Thompson 0679785892 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.08 1971
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]]> 46170 For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.]]> 471 Ernest Hemingway Thrasos 0 to-read 3.98 1940
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]]> 12321 Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.

This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.

Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.

If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.

"One of the greatest books of a very great thinker." —Michael Tanner]]> 240 Friedrich Nietzsche 014044923X Thrasos 0 to-read 4.05 1886
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]]> 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky Thrasos 0 to-read 4.26 1866
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]]> 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine�� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.99 1932
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]]> 170448 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 141 George Orwell 0451526341 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.07 1945
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]]> 25698 The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's Introduction both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, "Smith's mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century--jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics."



Introduction by Robert Reich - Commentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner - Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide]]> 1076 Adam Smith 0226763749 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.87 1776
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]]> 18869177 83 Sam Harris Thrasos 0 to-read 3.88 2011
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]]> 26150770
In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level--and then how each connects to the other. ��Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.]]> 480 Sean Carroll 0525954821 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.18 2016
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]]> 18050143
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.]]> 195 Peter Thiel 0804139296 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.15 2014
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]]> 8065146
(Από την ιταλική έκδοση Nikos Kazantzakis "Zorba il greco", Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milano 1976.)

Πολλές φορές πεθύμησα να γράψω το βίο και την πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, ενός γέρου εργάτη πού πολύ αγάπησα.

Στη ζωή μου, οι πιο μεγάλοι μου ευεργέτες στάθηκαν τα ταξίδια και τα όνείρατα· από τους ανθρώπους, ζωντανούς και πεθαμένους, πολύ λίγοι βοήθησαν τον αγώνα μου. Όμως, αν ήθελα να ξεχωρίσω ποιοι άνθρωποι άφησαν βαθύτερα τ' άχνάρια τους στην ψυχή μου, ίσως να ξεχώριζα τρεις τέσσερεις: τον 'Όμηρο, τον Μπέρξονα, το Νίτσε και το Ζορμπά.

Ο πρώτος στάθηκε για μένα το γαληνό κατάφωτο μάτι -σαν το δίσκο του ήλιου- που φωτίζει με απολυτρωτικιά λάμψη τα πάντα· ο Μπέρξονας με αλάφρωσε από άλυτες φιλοσοφικές αγωνίες που με τυραννούσαν στα πρώτα νιάτα· ο Νίτσε με πλούτισε με καινούριες αγωνίες και μ' έμαθε να μετουσιώνω τη δυστυχία, την πίκρα, την αβεβαιότητα σε περηφάνια· κι ο Ζορμπάς μ' έμαθε ν' αγαπώ τη ζωή και να μη φοβούμαι το θάνατο.

(από τον πρόλογο του συγγραφέα)]]> 315 Nikos Kazantzakis 9607948130 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.43 1946
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]]> 11870510
Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΣ

«Από τον αξέχαστο συγγραφέα τού Ζορμπά, ένα μυθιστόρημα μεγαλειώδες και με βαθύ συναισθηματικό αντίκτυπο, που αφηγείται την αγάπη και το πάθος ενός ανθρώπου: του Ιησού από τη Ναζαρέτ. Γιος ενός ξυλουργού, ο άνθρωπος Ιησούς θα ’θελ�� να αγαπήσει μια γυναίκα και να αποκτήσει οικογένεια, αλλά η φωνή τού Θεού αντηχεί εκρηκτικά μέσα στην ψυχή του, τον οπλίζει με μια δύναμη ανώτερη από χίλιους στρατούς, του επιβάλλει θυσίες και μαρτύρια. Η εσωτερική σύγκρουση του ανθρώπου, η πάλη μεταξύ σάρκας και πνεύματος, το ένστικτο της ανταρσίας και η ακαταμάχητη επιθυμία του να ενωθεί με τον Θεό, αναδύονται εδώ σε μιαν αφηγηματική τοιχογραφία που δοξάζει την υπέρτατη θυσία τού Χριστού. Επάνω στον σταυρό, ετοιμοθάνατος πια, ο Ιησούς έχει ένα όραμα: πώς θα ήταν η ζωή του αν δεν είχε ακολουθήσει το κάλεσμα του Θεού. Είναι πράγματι ο τελευταίος πειρασμός, ο πειρασμός που ο Χριστός αποκρούει, πεθαίνοντας για ολόκληρο το ανθρώπινο γένος.

»Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, γεννημένος το 1883 στην Κρήτη, θεωρείται ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους συγγραφείς τής εποχής μας. Πέθανε στη Γερμανία το 1957.»

(Από την ιταλική έκδοση Nikos Kazantzakis, L�� Ultima Tentazione,
Euroclub, Edizioni Frassinelli, Bergamo 1989.)



«Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός είναι η καζαντζακική αναδημιουργία τής ζωής και του Πάθους τού Χριστού. Είναι ένα βαθιά πνευματικό πόνημα και ταυτόχρονα ένα ασυνήθιστα ζωντανό και συναρπαστικό μυθιστόρημα.

»Σ�� αυτό ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης εναλλάσσεται ανάμεσα σε στιγμές ύψιστου ευφάνταστου λυρισμού και στιγμές αφόρητου σχεδόν ρεαλισμού, όταν η όλη αίσθηση του πλήθους, των ανθρώπων και της ατμόσφαιρας της Ιουδαίας ζωντανεύει, και όταν το σύνορο του χρόνου που μας διαχωρίζει από εκείνα τα σπουδαία γεγονότα μοιάζει να εξαφανίζεται.
»Αυτό δεν είναι ένα “βιβλικό�� μυθιστόρημα με τη συνηθισμένη έννοια. Οι χαρακτήρες δεν είναι σύγχρονοι άνθρωποι μασκαρεμένοι με τους χιτώνες τής αρχαιότητας. Ο Καζαντζάκης γράφει για αληθινούς ανθρώπους: ο Χριστός του είναι ένας άνθρωπος, ένας άνθρωπος του λαού, που τίθεται οδυνηρά στον πειρασμό να εγκαταλείψει την αφοσίωσή του σε ένα υπερ-ανθρώπινο ιδανικό και να βολευτεί ήσυχα σε μια ζωή ευτυχίας με την αγαπημένη του Μαρία. Είναι ένας άνθρωπος με ακραία πάθη και μεγάλο θάρρος και είναι ικανός –όπως όλοι οι άνθρωποι�� να ενδώσει στον θυμό, στη θλίψη και σε στιγμές δειλίας.
»Οι Απόστολοι είναι, επίσης, αληθινοί άνθρωποι, διστακτικοί, αβέβαιοι για τον εαυτό τους και για τον Χριστό, γρήγορα εγκαταλείπουν όταν οι περιστάσεις στρέφονται εναντίον τους. Εκτός από έναν: τον Ιούδα. »Ο Ιούδας είναι ο πολεμιστής, ο άνθρωπος της δύναμης, ο άνθρωπος που βλέπει στον Χριστό τον Μεσσία αυτού του κόσμου, έναν αυτοκράτορα που θα νικήσει τη Ρώμη στο ίδιο της το παιχνίδι. Και, σε τελική ανάλυση, μόνον ο Ιούδας είναι που μπορεί να καταστήσει δυνατό τον θρίαμβο του Χριστού.
»Γιατί είναι ο Χριστός που ζητάει από τον Ιούδα να εκτελέσει την ύστατη πράξη αφοσίωσης: να τον προδώσει. Ο Χριστός συνειδητοποιεί ότι μπορεί να εδραιώσει τη Βασιλεία του μόνο αν ανέβει στον σταυρό. Και ο Ιούδας, ο άνθρωπος από ατσάλι, ο μόνος φερέγγυος μαθητής, παραδίδει τον Δάσκαλό του στους σταυρωτές του. »Πρόκειται για ένα σπουδαίο βιβλίο, ένα έπος βίας, αγάπης και πίστης. Είναι ένα βαθιά σημαντικό βιβλίο, από έναν άνθρωπο τον οποίο τόσον ο Τόμας Μανν όσο και ο Άλμπερτ Σβάιτσερ αποκάλεσαν ένα από τους Μεγάλους συγγραφείς τού αιώνα μας.
»Είναι, στην πραγματικότητα, ένα από τα πιο δυνατά και συγκινητικά βιβλία τού Νίκου Καζαντζάκη.»

(Από την αγγλική έκδοση The Last Temptation of Christ, A novel by Nikos Kazantzakis,
Simon and Schuster, New York 1960.)]]> 587 Nikos Kazantzakis 9607948238 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.50 1955
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]]> 6622247 »Η τέλεια φτώχια, η περιπέτεια στην οποίαν ανεπιφύλακτα αφήνεται ο Φραγκίσκος, έχει κάτι το ιλιγγιώδες - ιλιγγιώδες όπως η αγάπη που ο Φραγκίσκος ανακαλύπτει προοδευτικά, μέχρι να την ενσαρκώσει ο ίδιος: η ανεξάντλητη και απρόβλεπτη αγάπη τού Θεού.
»Ο αναγνώστης θα ξαναβρεί στο φλογερό αυτό βιβλίο, του οποίου ο τόνος είναι εκείνος των πιο ευγενών και πιο οικείων συναξαριών, όχι μόνο τον λυρισμό ενός ποιητή παθιασμένα κυριευμένου από την ομορφιά τού κόσμου, αλλ' επίσης όλα τα βαθιά θέματα της σκέψης τού Καζαντζάκη, του πιστού και εξεγερμένου, του ανήσυχου και γαλήνιου, του μοναχικού κι ωστόσο σε ενότητα με όλους τούς συνανθρώπους του."

(Από τη γαλλική έκδοση Nikos Kazantzaki, "Le Pauvred' Assise, Plon, Paris 1970)

"Η σεραφική γλυκύτητα του Αγίου Φραγκίσκου μπαίνει σε μιαν ακατάπαυστη μάχη κόντρα στον πατέρα, κόντρα στην πολιτεία, κόντρα στη λοιδορία, την κακότητα και την αδιαφορία, κόντρα στις διαβολικές παγίδες, που γλιστρούν μέχρι και μέσα στον περίβολο του μοναστηριού, όπου οι αδελφοί προσεύχονται στα καλυβάκια τους τα φτιαγμένα από κλαδιά."

(Μαρσέλ Μπριόν της Γαλλικής Ακαδημίας - La Revuede Paris)

"Δεν πρόκειται εδώ για ένα μυθιστόρημα, αλλά για ένα γνήσιο πάθος, που το ζει σε όλη του την ένταση ο συγγραφέας του... Ο συγγραφέας δικαιολογείται: χαρακτηρίζει το βιβλίο του ως "μυθιστόρημα", αλλά το αποκαλεί Ο δικός μου "Άγιος Φραγκίσκος της Ασσίζης". Πράγματι, ο Φραγκίσκος είναι αυτός, ο Καζαντζάκης, ο οποίος έζησε την "Ασκητική" ως τα άκρα και επέζησε."

(Αζίζ Ιζέτ, από το βιβλίο του "Nikos Kazantzaki")]]> 371 Nikos Kazantzakis Thrasos 0 to-read 4.11 1956
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]]> 8746660 "Σίγουρα;" με ρώτησε αυτός.
"Ναι. Πολύ θα ήθελα να μπορούσα να σταθώ μπροστά της και να της πω τι νιώθω... Ξέρω, όμως, ότι δεν μπορώ."
Ο Χοντρός κάθισε σαν τον Βούδα πάνω σ' εκείνες τις φριχτές μπλε πολυθρόνες του γραφείου του. Χαμογέλασε, με κοίταξε στα μάτια και, χαμηλώνοντας τη φωνή όπως έκανε κάθε φορά που ήθελε να τον ακούσουν προσεκτικά, μου είπε:
"Να σου πω μια ιστορία..."
Και χωρίς να περιμένει να συμφωνήσω, ο Χόρχε άρχισε να αφηγείται.
Ο Ντεμιάν είναι ένας ανήσυχος νεαρός φοιτητής που προσπαθεί να ανακαλύψει τον εαυτό του. Οι αναζητήσεις του τον κατευθύνουν στον "Χοντρό", έναν πολύ ιδιόρρυθμο ψυχαναλυτή που τον βοηθά να αντιμετωπίσει τη ζωή και να βρει απαντήσεις στα ερωτήματά του με έναν τρόπο πολύ πρωτότυπο: σε κάθε συνάντηση, του διηγείται από μία ιστορία, κλασική ή μοντέρνα, "ανατολίτικη" ή "δυτικότροπη", που πηγάζει από τη λαϊκή προφορική παράδοση ή απευθείας από τη φαντασία του "Χοντρού". Οι ιστορίες αρχίζουν να λειτουργούν ως παραβολές, και ο Ντεμιάν κατασιγάζει τις αγωνίες και τις ανασφάλειές του, ωριμάζοντας μάλλον, παρά βρίσκοντας "έτοιμες λύσεις" και "συνταγές ευτυχίας"... Οι σχέσεις μεταξύ θεραπευτή και θεραπευομένου δεν είναι -ούτε αυτές- συμβατικές και αναμενόμενες. Καβγάδες, διαφωνίες, συμπάθεια, αντιπάθεια, μίσος και αγάπη αφήνονται ελεύθερα να εκφραστούν, δημιουργώντας με αυτόν τον τρόπο δύο μοναδικούς λογοτεχνικούς ήρωες με σάρκα και οστά, προσφιλείς και οικείους στον αναγνώστη. Καμία σχέση εδώ με το στερεότυπο του ψυχαναλυτικού ντιβανιού και του οριζοντιωμένου πάσχοντος. Ο διάλογος και η ανταλλαγή εμπειριών και απόψεων, διανθισμένος με εξαιρετικές αφηγήσεις ιστοριών, τοποθετούν το "Να σου πω μια ιστορία" στην κατηγορία των λογοτεχνικών βιβλίων, ασχέτως εάν, παγκοσμίως, τοποθετείται κάτω από την ετικέττα: "Βιβλία αυτογνωσίας και αυτοβοήθειας".]]> 238 Jorge Bucay 9608397154 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.11 1994
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]]> 29056083
It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the complete and official playscript of the original, award-winning West End production. This updated edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter family tree, and a timeline of events in the wizarding world leading up to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."]]> 343 J.K. Rowling 0540027340 Thrasos 0 3.42 2016
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]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Thrasos 0 to-read 4.61 2007
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]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Thrasos 0 to-read 4.57 2005
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]]> 2
Harry has had enough. He is beginning to think he must do something, anything, to change his situation, when the summer holidays come to an end in a very dramatic fashion. What Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down...]]> 912 J.K. Rowling Thrasos 0 to-read 4.50 2003
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]]> 5 435 J.K. Rowling 043965548X Thrasos 0 to-read 4.57 1999
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]]> 647492
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical��Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.

While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition. ��

Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work, with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today. ��]]> 271 Christopher R. Browning 0060995068 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.10 1992
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]]> 23515727 No Country for Old Men is a triumph.]]> 309 Cormac McCarthy 0375706674 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.25 2005
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]]> 890 “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.��

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.

A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]> 107 John Steinbeck 0142000671 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.88 1937
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]]> 12625589 Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.

Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars.

Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time.

How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.]]> 505 George Dyson Thrasos 0 to-read 3.57 2012
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]]> 50714359
This innovative book shows how to identify your own unfair advantages and apply them to any project. Drawing on over two decades of hands-on experience, including
as the first Marketing Director of Just Eat, the authors offer a unique framework for
assessing your external circumstances in addition to your internal strengths.

Hard work and grit aren't enough, so this book explores the importance of money,
intelligence, location, education, expertise, status and luck in the journey to success.
From starting your company, to gaining traction, raising funds and growth hacking,
The Unfair Advantage helps you look at yourself and find the ingredients you didn't realise you already had, to succeed in the cut-throat world of business.]]> 256 Ash Ali 1788163311 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.99
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]]> 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.10 1997
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]]> 11797471 432 Jon Gertner 1594203288 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.16 2012
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]]> 18077903 “What does it mean to manage well?��
From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust�� sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.�� For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.
��
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as:
��
�� Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.
�� If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
�� It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.
�� The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
�� A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.
�� Do not assume that general agreement will lead to change—it takes substantial energy to move a group, even when all are on board.]]> 368 Ed Catmull 0812993012 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.19 2014
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]]> 30257963 What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.]]> 409 Jordan B. Peterson 0345816021 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.90 2018
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]]> 759945 238 David J. Schwartz 0671646788 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.26 1959
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]]> 28877 454 Thomas Harris Thrasos 0 to-read 4.07 1981
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]]> 23807
Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of "The Silence of the Lambs"—an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.]]> 421 Thomas Harris Thrasos 0 to-read 4.25 1988
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]]> 12996 319 William Shakespeare Thrasos 0 to-read 3.89 1603
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]]> 13433941 "Μπορείς να είσαι αυτός που είσαι."
"Μπορείς να σκέφτεσαι αυτό που σκέφτεσαι."
"Μπορείς να αισθάνεσαι αυτό που αισθάνεσαι."
"Μπορείς να παίρνεις τα δικά σου ρίσκα."
"Θα πρέπει μόνος σου να ψάξεις να βρεις αυτό που χρειάζεσαι, γιατί αυτό σημαίνει μεγαλώνω, είμαι ώριμος και αυτοεξαρτώμενος."
Αυτά τα προνομιούχα παιδάκια πηδούν μόνα τους από το τραμπολίνο και βουτάνε στη ζωή από ένα σημείο ευνοϊκό.
Βέβαια, δεν έχει όλος ο κόσμος τέτοια τύχη.
Όσοι, λοιπόν, δεν ήταν τόσο τυχεροί, θα χρειαστούν κάποιον να τους βοηθήσει, έστω κι ένα βιβλίο σαν αυτό."

Μετά τα διεθνή (και ελληνικά) best seller: "Να σου πω μια ιστορία", "Ιστορίες να σκεφτείς" και "Βασίσου πάνω μου", οι εκδόσεις Οpera συνεχίζουν την έκδοση των έργων του Χόρχε
Μπουκάι με τον "δρόμος της αυτοεξάρτησης", πρώτο από μια σειρά τεσσάρων τόμων που αποτελούν τα "Φύλλα Πορείας" του δημοφιλούς αργεντινού ψυχιάτρου.

Στα "Φύλλα Πορείας" του, ο ψυχίατρος-ψυχοθεραπευτής υπερισχύει του αφηγητή. Ο συμβουλευτικός
ρόλος που αποτελεί τη βασική επαγγελματική ενασχόληση του Μπουκάι καταλαμβάνει περισσότερο χώρο καθώς, για την αναζήτηση ενός κρυμμένου νοήματος, απαιτείται όχι μόνο μια ιστορία, αλλά και ένα θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο που εδώ παρέχεται για πρώτη φορά στον αναγνώστη.

Πράγματι, στα προηγούμενα τρία βιβλία του που κυκλοφορούν στα ελληνικά, είχαμε γνωρίσει τον Μπουκάι αφηγητή, συζητητή, επαγγελματία χρήστη της παραβολής στη θεραπεία του ασθενούς του, αλλά μας έλειπε ο Μπουκάι γιατρός, ο επιστήμονας με την αποκρυσταλλωμένη άποψη για τη ζωή και την επιστήμη του, που στο "Δρόμο της αυτοεξάρτησης" αποφασίζει να αποκαλυφθεί. Εντούτοις, δεν δημιουργεί ένα "θεωρητικό κείμενο", παρά μόνο εκθέτει τις αντιλήψεις του για ό,τι του επέτρεψε να πορευτεί στη ζωή του ψυχοθεραπευτή. Απλώνει τους χάρτες του, τα "Φύλλα Πορείας" του, όπως θα έκανε σε μια φιλική συζήτηση όπου θα απαντούσε στην ερώτηση: "Ποιος είσαι γιατρέ και πώς σκέφτεσαι;"]]> 168 Jorge Bucay 9608397294 Thrasos 0 to-read 3.99 2000
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]]> 958674
The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for." Justifying and elaborating on that claim, H.D.F. Kitto explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece, bringing to his subject the passion, wit and insight that have made this brief introduction a world-famous classic.

“Professor Kitto is a model historian �� lively, accurate, and fully acquainted with the latest developments in the subject . . . never vague . . . often witty and always full of vigour.”�� The Times Educational Supplement]]> 256 H.D.F. Kitto 0140135219 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.01 1951
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]]> 31170723 Why do we do the things we do?

More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.

And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs—whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.

Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.

The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do ... for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.]]> 790 Robert M. Sapolsky 1594205078 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.39 2017
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]]> 565631 976 Henri F. Ellenberger 0465016731 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.47 1970
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]]> 13589182 318 Robert Greene 0670024961 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.26 2012
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]]> 1303 Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control �� from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling�� and “fascinating,�� Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master��), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness��), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally��). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.]]> 452 Robert Greene 0140280197 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.11 1998
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]]> 10534 170 Sun Tzu Thrasos 0 to-read 3.98 -400
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]]> 39330937 From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around youRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.]]> 624 Robert Greene 0698184548 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.35 2018
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]]> 6656 This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.]]> 798 Dante Alighieri 0679433139 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.08 1320
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]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.12 1984
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]]> 21031
Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure", Breuer never expects that he, too, will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient.

In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.]]> 310 Irvin D. Yalom 0060748125 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.36 1992
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]]> 225546
"An investment in life is an investment in change. When you are changing all the time, you’ve got to continue to keep adjusting for change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That’s the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You’re gone! But what a fantastic journey!"
��
"I think the loving person must return to spontaneity �� return to touching each other, to holding each other, to smiling at each other, to thinking of each other, to caring about each other��.Hugs are good, they feel nice, and if you don’t believe it, try it."
��
"We've got to learn to trust again, to believe again. Of course it's a risk, but everything is a risk. We need to begin to go beyond just ‘being�� again. We’ve got to get in touch with being human and there’s a difference."]]> 264 Leo F. Buscaglia 0449901815 Thrasos 0 to-read 4.31 1982
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