Joel 's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 27 Dec 2024 01:54:29 -0800 60 Joel 's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Joel 0 currently-reading 4.37 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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]]> Fifteen Poems 13493398 54 Leonard Cohen 9780307961 Joel 4 4.01 2012 Fifteen Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Communicate Your Feelings (without starting a fight): What to Say and What Not to Say to Your Partner (Mental & Emotional Wellness Book 1)]]> 57228538 This book spoke to many of the communication barriers my partner and I have experienced. -Amazon Customer Review

I have never been good with understanding feelings, let alone communicating them, but this book provides a groundwork for both of those processes! -Amazon Customer Review

There’s no way around it—if you’re in a relationship, both you and your partner are going to experience challenging feelings like anger, frustration, sadness, fear, and anxiety. The question is, when these feelings come up, will there be stressful fighting and isolation or deepening connection and growth?

For most of us, the ways we learned to handle our feelings were dysfunctional, defensive, and, ultimately, deadly to intimacy. You may even discover that you and your partner have been voicing your feelings in toxic, critical ways—or not voicing them at all—without even realizing it. Instead of experiencing your relationship as a domestic battlefield or never-ending voyage of loneliness, what if it were an attachment of mutual emotional safety and connection?

Fortunately, the ability to communicate lovingly and effectively isn’t inherent—it’s a skill that can be learned. Use these simple, immediately-applicable communication techniques as your building blocks to a happier, stronger relationship…]]> 114 Nic Saluppo Joel 4 4.47 Communicate Your Feelings (without starting a fight): What to Say and What Not to Say to Your Partner (Mental & Emotional Wellness Book 1)
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]]> Thunderstruck & Other Stories 18339643 The Giant’s House�finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction to be hailed as “exquisite� (The New York Times Book Review), “funny and heartbreaking� (The Boston Globe), and “a true marvel� (San Francisco Chronicle), these nine vibrant stories navigate the fragile space between love and loneliness. In “Property,� selected by Geraldine Brooks for The Best American Short Stories, a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish the Maine rental house they were to share together by removing his landlord’s possessions. In “Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey,� the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years later by his famous first subject, whose trust he betrayed. In “The Lost & Found Department of Greater Boston,� the manager of a grocery store becomes fixated on the famous case of a missing local woman, and on the fate of the teenage son she left behind. And in the unforgettable title story, a family makes a quixotic decision to flee to Paris for a summer, only to find their lives altered in an unimaginable way by their teenage daughter’s risky behavior.
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In Elizabeth McCracken’s universe, heartache is always interwoven with strange, charmed moments of joy—an unexpected conversation with small children, the gift of a parrot with a bad French accent—that remind us of the wonder and mystery of being alive. Thunderstruck & Other Stories shows this inimitable writer working at the full height of her powers.]]> 240 Elizabeth McCracken 0385335776 Joel 0 to-read 3.91 2014 Thunderstruck & Other Stories
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]]> Strange Weather in Tokyo 35396763
As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time’s passing comes across through the seasons and the food and beverages they consume together. From warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms, the reader is enveloped by a keen sense of pathos and both characters� keen loneliness.]]> 157 Hiromi Kawakami Joel 0 currently-reading 3.87 2001 Strange Weather in Tokyo
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]]> Naming and Necessity 276249
Ever since the publication of its original version, "Naming and Necessity" has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind.

This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.]]> 192 Saul A. Kripke 0674598466 Joel 0 currently-reading 4.00 1971 Naming and Necessity
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]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years]]> 50891741
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring people everywhere with his work. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels, The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers, to timeless songs such as “Suzanne,� “Dance Me to the End of Love,� and “Hallelujah,� Cohen is a cherished artist. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the many fans and followers who would miss his warmth, humour, intellect, and piercing insights.

Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. The first of three volumes—The Early Years—follows him from his boyhood in Montreal to university, and his burgeoning literary career to the world of music, culminating with his first international tour in 1970.

Through the voices of those who knew him best—family and friends, colleagues and contemporaries, rivals, business partners, and his many lovers—the book probes deeply into both Cohen’s public and private life. It also paints a portrait of an era, the social, cultural, and political revolutions that shook the 1960s.

In this revealing and entertaining first volume, bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner draws on hundreds of interviews to reach beyond the Cohen of myth and reveal the unique, complex, and compelling figure of the real man.]]> 496 Michael Posner 1982152621 Joel 5 4.02 Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years
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]]> <![CDATA[Discourses, Fragments, Handbook]]> 20525879
Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful, direct, and challenging, their central message is that the basis of happiness is up to us, and that we all have the capacity, through sustained reflection and hard work, of achieving this goal. They still speak eloquently to modern readers seeking meaning in their own lives.

This is the only complete modern translation of the Discourses, together with the Handbook or manual of key themes, and surviving fragments. Robin Hard's accurate and accessible translation is accompanied by Christopher Gill's full introduction and comprehensive notes.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.]]> 903 Epictetus 0191641979 Joel 4 4.56 108 Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
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]]> <![CDATA[In Every Style of Passion: The Works of Leonard Cohen]]> 403547 392 Jim Devlin 0711954968 Joel 3 2.60 1996 In Every Style of Passion: The Works of Leonard Cohen
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]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Cohen: The Music and the Mystique]]> 13218057
Features include and up to date chronology of all of the important events in his career, a special section on compilation albums and photographs and CD cover art.
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]]> Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art 13200316 190 Ira B. Nadel 1550222678 Joel 4 3.80 1994 Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art
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]]> <![CDATA[Intricate Preparations: Writing Leonard Cohen]]> 98731 ]]> 240 Stephen Scobie 1550224336 Joel 3 3.00 2000 Intricate Preparations: Writing Leonard Cohen
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]]> Leonard Cohen: You're Our Man 8148784 Allison Akgungor Joel 3 3.43 Leonard Cohen: You're Our Man
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook: A Biography in 80 Wood Engravings (Graphic Novels)]]> 21817934 192 George A. Walker 0889843759 Joel 4 3.79 2014 The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook: A Biography in 80 Wood Engravings (Graphic Novels)
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]]> <![CDATA[Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs]]> 158010 432 Leonard Cohen 0679755411 Joel 5 4.38 1993 Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs]]> 403543 Book by Cohen, Leonard 96 Leonard Cohen 0825626544 Joel 5 4.39 1969 Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
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]]> Leonard Cohen 30094774 64 Michael Ondaatje Joel 0 to-read 3.58 1970 Leonard Cohen
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]]> The Flame 37941942 The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.

A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.

“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,� writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.�

Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,� in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”]]> 277 Leonard Cohen 0374156069 Joel 5 4.06 2018 The Flame
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]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows]]> 20792018
Arriving at the '60s pop-music party fashionably late, Cohen released his debut album � Songs of Leonard Cohen � in 1967. At 33 years of age, he was the adult in the room, a room brimming, then as now, with literary pretension and artistic self-importance. But Cohen, already established as a respected poet and novelist, was the real deal. In the decades since, he has battled with drugs, love, and bankruptcy; become a Buddhist monk while simultaneously reaffirming his Jewish faith; and recorded 11 more albums of unfailingly affecting beauty.

Beginning with Cohen the young poet and author in his home town of Montreal and ending with his 2012 release � Old Ideas � and recent acclaimed live performances, Everybody Knows honors Leonard Cohen's 80th birthday by celebrating his genius and tracing his rise to stardom through 200 photographs and the thoughts, memories, and reflections of those who have both worked with and been inspired by him.]]> 226 Harvey Kubernik 1480386286 Joel 3 4.07 2014 Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
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]]> <![CDATA[Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters]]> 18444369
In Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen-- which includes a foreword by singer Suzanne Vega and eight pages of rarely seen photos--the artist talks about "Bird on the Wire," "Hallelujah," and his other classic songs. He candidly discusses his famous romances, his years in a Zen monastery, his ill-fated collaboration with producer Phil Spector, his long battle with depression, and much more.ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý

You'll find interviews that first appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone , but also material that has not previously been printed in English. Some of it has not been available until now in any format, including many illuminating reminiscences that contributors supplied specifically for this definitive anthology.]]> 624 Jeff Burger 1613747586 Joel 5 4.24 2014 Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters
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]]> <![CDATA[A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen]]> 22253769 These are the questions at the heart of A Broken Hallelujah, a meditation on the singer, his music, and the ideas and beliefs at its core. Granted extraordinary access to Cohen’s personal papers, Liel Leibovitz examines the intricacies of the man whose performing career began with a crippling bout of stage fright, yet who, only a few years later, tamed a rowdy crowd on the Isle of Wight, preventing further violence; the artist who had gone from a successful world tour and a movie star girlfriend to a long residency in a remote Zen retreat; and the rare spiritual seeker for whom the principles of traditional Judaism, the tenets of Zen Buddhism, and the iconography of Christianity all align. The portrait that emerges is that of an artist attuned to notions of justice, lust, longing, loneliness, and redemption, and possessing the sort of voice and vision commonly reserved only for the prophets.


More than just an account of Cohen’s life, A Broken Hallelujah is an intimate look at the artist that is as emotionally astute as it is philosophically observant. Delving into the sources and meaning of Cohen’s work, Leibovitz beautifully illuminates what Cohen is telling us and why we listen so intensely.]]> 288 Liel Leibovitz 0393350738 Joel 4 3.88 2014 A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
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]]> <![CDATA[The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"]]> 13547619 �A venerated creator. An adored, tragic interpreter. An uncomplicated, memorable melody. Ambiguous, evocative words. Faith and uncertainty. Pain and pleasure.� Today, “Hallelujah� is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows as diverse as Shrek and The West Wing, of tribute videos and telethons. It has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Bob Dylan, U2, Justin Timberlake, and k.d. lang, and it is played every year at countless events—both sacred and secular—around the world.

Yet when music legend Leonard Cohen first wrote and recorded “Hallelujah,� it was for an album rejected by his longtime record label. Ten years later, charismatic newcomer Jeff Buckley reimagined the song for his much-anticipated debut album, Grace. Three years after that, Buckley would be dead, his album largely unknown, and “Hallelujah� still unreleased as a single. After two such commercially disappointing outings, how did one obscure song become an international anthem for human triumph and tragedy, a song each successive generation seems to feel they have discovered and claimed as uniquely their own?

Through in-depth interviews with its interpreters and the key figures who were actually there for its original recordings, acclaimed music journalist Alan Light follows the improbable journey of “Hallelujah� straight to the heart of popular culture. The Holy or the Broken gives insight into how great songs come to be, how they come to be listened to, and how they can be forever reinterpreted.]]> 288 Alan Light 1451657862 Joel 3 3.61 2012 The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
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]]> <![CDATA[Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now]]> 39669100 A timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.

You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In his important book, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms.

Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected� than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.

]]> 147 Jaron Lanier 1250196698 Joel 3 3.78 2018 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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]]> Killing Commendatore 38820047
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby�Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.]]> 681 Haruki Murakami 052552004X Joel 4 3.88 2017 Killing Commendatore
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]]> Poetry, Language, Thought 203310 Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger's pivotal writings on art, its role in human life and culture, and its relationship to thinking and truth. Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Heidegger beyond the study of philosophy to the reaches of poetry and our fundamental relationship to the world. Featuring "The Origin of the Work of Art," a milestone in Heidegger's canon, this enduring volume provides potent, accessible entry to one of the most brilliant thinkers of modern times.]]> 256 Martin Heidegger Joel 5 4.12 1971 Poetry, Language, Thought
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]]> <![CDATA[THE TRUMP PASSOVER HAGGADAH: “People All The Time They Come Up And Tell Me This Is The Best Haggadah They’ve Ever Read, They Do, Believe Me”]]> 38886421 109 Dave Cowen Joel 2 3.41 THE TRUMP PASSOVER HAGGADAH: “People All The Time They Come Up And Tell Me This Is The Best Haggadah They’ve Ever Read, They Do, Believe Me”
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handbook (The Encheiridion)]]> 24614 35 Epictetus 0915145693 Joel 5 4.00 125 The Handbook (The Encheiridion)
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]]> Utilitarianism 584637 Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.]]> 71 John Stuart Mill 087220605X Joel 4 3.69 1861 Utilitarianism
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]]> Philosophical Investigations 12073 Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe's original translation Footnoted remarks in the earlier editions have now been relocated in the text What was previously referred to as 'Part 2' is now republished as Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment, and all the remarks in it are numbered for ease of reference New detailed editorial endnotes explain decisions of translators and identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein's original text Now features new essays on the history of the Philosophical Investigations, and the problems of translating Wittgenstein's text]]> 246 Ludwig Wittgenstein 0631231277 Joel 5 4.26 1953 Philosophical Investigations
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]]> The Moviegoer 10739
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is adrift. He occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a quest - a harebrained search for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the gaudy chaos of the French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, "The Moviegoer" is a genuine American classic.]]> 242 Walker Percy 0375701966 Joel 5 3.66 1961 The Moviegoer
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]]> <![CDATA[A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing]]> 11337189
“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?�

One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end.

Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.]]> 204 Lawrence M. Krauss 145162445X Joel 4 3.93 2012 A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety]]> 551520 152 Alan W. Watts 0394704681 Joel 5 4.14 1951 The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
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]]> Candide 19380 Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that � contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss � all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.]]> 129 Voltaire 0486266893 Joel 4 3.76 1759 Candide
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]]> <![CDATA[God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything]]> 43369 307 Christopher Hitchens 0446579807 Joel 5 3.94 2007 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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]]> Hitch 22: A Memoir 7332753
In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political.

This is the story of his life, a life lived large.]]> 435 Christopher Hitchens 0446540331 Joel 5 4.01 2010 Hitch 22: A Memoir
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]]> American Spy 40274582
It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she's given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes. Yes, even though she secretly admires the work Thomas is doing for his country. Yes, even though she is still grieving over the mysterious death of her sister, whose example led Marie to this career path in the first place. Yes, even though a furious part of her suspects she's being offered the job because of her appearance and not her talent.

In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him, and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down. But doing so will change everything she believes about what it means to be a spy, a lover, a sister, and a good American.

Inspired by true events -- Thomas Sankara is known as “Africa's Che Guevara� -- this novel knits together a gripping spy thriller, a heartbreaking family drama, and a passionate romance. This is a face of the Cold War you've never seen before, and it introduces a powerful new literary voice.]]> 292 Lauren Wilkinson 0812998952 Joel 0 to-read 3.45 2019 American Spy
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]]> Dorrie and the Museum Case 1081705 48 Patricia Coombs 0688042783 Joel 0 4.44 1986 Dorrie and the Museum Case
author: Patricia Coombs
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]]> Dorrie and the Witches' Camp 1081703 48 Patricia Coombs 0688015085 Joel 0 4.20 1983 Dorrie and the Witches' Camp
author: Patricia Coombs
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]]> <![CDATA[Dorrie and the Witchville Fair]]> 90933 48 Patricia Coombs 0688419577 Joel 0 4.34 1980 Dorrie and the Witchville Fair
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]]> Dorrie and the Screebit Ghost 1753188 48 Patricia Coombs 0688518834 Joel 0 4.38 1979 Dorrie and the Screebit Ghost
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]]> <![CDATA[Dorrie and the Dreamyard Monsters]]> 1081698 48 Patricia Coombs 0440408962 Joel 0 4.33 1977 Dorrie and the Dreamyard Monsters
author: Patricia Coombs
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]]> Dorrie and the Halloween Plot 1226698 48 Patricia Coombs 0688517641 Joel 0 4.23 1976 Dorrie and the Halloween Plot
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]]> Dorrie and the Witch's Imp 90932 48 Patricia Coombs 044040889X Joel 0 4.45 1975 Dorrie and the Witch's Imp
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]]> <![CDATA[Dorrie and the Amazing Magic Elixir]]> 90936 48 Patricia Coombs 0688416403 Joel 0 4.46 1974 Dorrie and the Amazing Magic Elixir
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]]> Dorrie and the Fortune Teller 90937 48 Patricia Coombs 0688415334 Joel 0 4.42 1973 Dorrie and the Fortune Teller
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]]> Dorrie and the Witch Doctor 1081710 48 Patricia Coombs 0688513115 Joel 0 4.56 1967 Dorrie and the Witch Doctor
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]]> Dorrie and the Goblin 1081699 48 Patricia Coombs 0688413153 Joel 0 4.45 1972 Dorrie and the Goblin
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]]> Dorrie and the Wizard's Spell 90928 48 Patricia Coombs 0688410839 Joel 0 4.46 1968 Dorrie and the Wizard's Spell
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]]> Dorrie and the Haunted House 90934 44 Patricia Coombs 0440422124 Joel 0 4.43 1970 Dorrie and the Haunted House
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]]> Dorrie and the Birthday Eggs 2548037 60 Coombs Patricia 0140319875 Joel 0 4.49 1971 Dorrie and the Birthday Eggs
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]]> Dorrie's Play 90938 48 Patricia Coombs 0749710594 Joel 0 4.71 1965 Dorrie's Play
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]]> Dorrie and the Weather Box 90935 48 Patricia Coombs 068850986X Joel 0 4.52 1966 Dorrie and the Weather Box
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]]> Dorrie and the Blue Witch 90925
Ěý Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare.
Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students, who are crowded into a tiny space, working on the floor among roosters and centipedes.
ĚýĚýĚýWhen Clare’s new friends take her on an outing to see the country, the trip goes horribly wrong, and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Only an orphan named Memory, who knows about love and loss, can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon.
ĚýĚýĚýTold from an American girl’s perspective, this story about how death teaches us to live and how love endures through our memories will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.]]> 48 Shana Burg 0440422108 Joel 0 4.53 1964 Dorrie and the Blue Witch
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]]> Dorrie's Magic 6557069 48 Patricia Coombs Joel 0 4.42 1962 Dorrie's Magic
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]]> Thinking, Fast and Slow 12385458 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.]]> 512 Daniel Kahneman 1429969350 Joel 5 4.20 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow
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name: Joel
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]]> The Last Great Prizefight 8837472 258 Steven Frederick Joel 3 3.88 2010 The Last Great Prizefight
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average rating: 3.88
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers]]> 42190 96 Leonard Koren 1880656124 Joel 3 4.00 1994 Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
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]]> <![CDATA[Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong]]> 31706504 Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:


� Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
� Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers

� Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
� The secret ingredient to “grit� that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
� How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man

By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.]]> 224 Eric Barker 0062416170 Joel 0 to-read 4.06 2017 Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
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]]> <![CDATA[The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Magic Cleaning #1)]]> 22823462 This #1ĚýNew York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?

Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo’s clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).Ěý

With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark joy� (and which don’t), this international bestseller featuring Tokyo’s newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home—and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 226 Marie KondĹŤ 1607747316 Joel 4 4.00 2010 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Magic Cleaning #1)
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]]> On the Shortness of Life 19306665
Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers,ĚýandĚýeach volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world.

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.


]]> 111 Seneca 1101651180 Joel 5 4.21 49 On the Shortness of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Glass: The Graphic Novel]]> 9132347 A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman

Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.� An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print.

Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.
]]> 129 Paul Karasik 1429900032 Joel 3 3.91 1994 City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
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]]> City of Glass 89053 A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman

Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.� An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print.

Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.
]]> 138 Paul Karasik 0312423608 Joel 4 3.99 1994 City of Glass
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]> 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 Joel 5 4.12 1984 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Joel 3 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
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]]> Don Quixote 3836
With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."]]> 1023 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Joel 5 3.86 1615 Don Quixote
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]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24583
Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale."

As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

Excerpt:
"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, ĚýI wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never lookedĚýthroughĚýthem for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll�"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"]]> 244 Mark Twain Joel 3 3.92 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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]]> Of Mice and Men 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 Joel 4 3.88 1937 Of Mice and Men
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]]> The Sense of an Ending 10746542 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.

This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.]]> 150 Julian Barnes 0224094157 Joel 4 3.73 2011 The Sense of an Ending
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]]> Collected Fictions 17961 Alternate cover edition of ISBN-13: 978-0140286809, ISBN-10/ASIN: 0140286802

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century� collected in a single volume

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper

For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books.

Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius.]]> 565 Jorge Luis Borges Joel 4 4.57 1998 Collected Fictions
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]]> <![CDATA[Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen]]> 20344
Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing, flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson’s acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, in theatres this summer (the DVD will release this fall); and the superb soundtrack in music stores everywhere, Leonard Cohen proves he is Canada’s most enduring icon. Now, in the newly reissued Various Positions, Ira Nadel peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Leonard Cohen’s life and his art. This book is a remarkable and rare
look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal.

For nearly forty years, Leonard Cohen has endured the ups and downs of an international career that has alternately identified him as the "Prince of Bummers" and Canada's most respected poet and performer. Now, author Ira Nadel brings us closer to understanding these conflicting descriptions and allows us to enter Cohen's private world. He peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Cohen's life and his art.

This is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 325 Ira B. Nadel 0679442359 Joel 3 3.87 1994 Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
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average rating: 3.87
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rating: 3
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]]> The Wall 10031
This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it.]]> 183 Jean-Paul Sartre 184391400X Joel 4 4.14 1939 The Wall
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name: Joel
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1939
rating: 4
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Joel 4 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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]]> The Fire Next Time 464260 The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,� written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,� The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.]]> 106 James Baldwin 067974472X Joel 5 4.55 1963 The Fire Next Time
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]]> Citizen: An American Lyric 20613761 Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.]]> 169 Claudia Rankine 1555976905 Joel 4 4.27 2014 Citizen: An American Lyric
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]]> <![CDATA[A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present]]> 2767 Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”]]> 729 Howard Zinn 0060838655 Joel 4 4.07 1980 A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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]]> Amerikanah 21836856 512 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 902347810X Joel 0 to-read 4.26 2013 Amerikanah
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]]> <![CDATA[A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy]]> 867247 - Miyamoto Musashi, Book of Five Rings

Shortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience, observation, and reason.]]> 192 Miyamoto Musashi 0517415283 Joel 4 4.02 1645 A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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book published: 1645
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]]> <![CDATA[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]> 130119 96 David Hume 1420926993 Joel 4 3.93 1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1748
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]]> The First and Last Freedom 64710 288 J. Krishnamurti 0060648317 Joel 0 to-read 4.22 1954 The First and Last Freedom
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]]> The Waste Land 34080 The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is often regarded as T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, as well as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

The work, divided in 5 sections, juxtaposes the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with a snapshot of early twentieth-century British society. In contemporary times, it is often read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems and has come to be Eliot's most popular poem.

T.S. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry."In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."]]> 288 T.S. Eliot 0393974995 Joel 4 4.11 1922 The Waste Land
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]]> 100 Selected Poems 76889 121 E.E. Cummings 0802130720 Joel 5 4.29 1923 100 Selected Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays]]> 11987 212 Albert Camus Joel 5 4.23 1942 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Civilization and Its Discontents]]> 357636 127 Sigmund Freud 0393301583 Joel 4 3.79 1930 Civilization and Its Discontents
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]]> Survival in Auschwitz 6174
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and “Italian citizen of Jewish race,� was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi’s classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.]]> 187 Primo Levi 0684826801 Joel 4 4.20 1947 Survival in Auschwitz
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]]> Go Tell It on the Mountain 17143 Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.]]> 256 James Baldwin 0141185910 Joel 4 4.06 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 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 Joel 5 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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]]> Hunger 394632
Originally published in 1890, this classic of modern literature follows an impoverished Norwegian writer through the streets of Christiania (now Olso) as he struggles on the edge of starvation. Existing on what little money he makes from selling the occasional article to the local paper, and down to pawning the clothes on his back, the young writer slowly loses control of his reason and begins to slip increasingly into bouts of madness, paranoia, and despair.

A gripping portrait of an artist struggling for integrity, Hunger mirrors the dire straits of Hamsun's own life when he brought this, his then incomplete first novel, to a publisher in 1888.

--back cover]]> 243 Knut Hamsun 0374525285 Joel 0 to-read 4.14 1890 Hunger
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]]> The Gift of Death 167500 The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard.

A major work, The Gift of Death resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion.

Collection: Religion and Postmodernism Series]]> 124 Jacques Derrida 0226143066 Joel 0 to-read 4.09 1992 The Gift of Death
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]]> <![CDATA[Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)]]> 2151244 352 René Guénon 0900588799 Joel 0 to-read 3.89 1921 Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)
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]]> Perspectives on Initiation 748229 320 René Guénon 0900588322 Joel 0 to-read 4.33 1946 Perspectives on Initiation
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]]> <![CDATA[You're It! On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found]]> 6583629
Imagine you’re climbing a mountain path that will lead you to a paradise where all your needs are met and your questions answered. What do you find when you reach the top? A mirror. This is the great cosmic game, reveals Alan Watts―that everything you’re seeking through meditation, self-improvement, or spiritual practice is always hiding inside of you. On You’re It! , join this legendary “stand-up philosopher� for 15 classic talks on how to play your role in the divine drama of existence with a clear mind, open eyes, and an abiding sense of the joy in the game itself.

See What Answers Are Hidden in Your Own Reflection

Just as you need a mirror to see your own face, the best way to see your own true nature is to let a teacher like Alan Watts reflect it back to you. Watts stands out as one of the 20th century’s most compelling voices because he is so adept at holding up this spiritual looking glass. With his unique combination of penetrating insight and playful irreverence, Watts illuminates the truth that unites all the great wisdom traditions from the East and West―that the universe is always expressing its full, delightful mystery through you.

A 12-hour Audio Retreat with the Original Spiritual Entertainer

These restored audio sessions selected by Alan Watts� son and archivist Mark Watts reveal the master in his element, performing a one-man “spiritual jam session� before a live audience. Whether he’s unraveling Taoist thought, poking fun at our modern myths, or exploring the subtle beauty of Japanese poetry, Alan Watts always returns to one all-important lesson―how to get out of your own way and live in the perfection that is always present.

HIGHLIGHTS

The game of yes and no―how non-dual truths are revealed in the duality of Yin and Yang
� Mysticism and morality―exploring the relationship between revelation and ethics
� On Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and their translation into Western thought
� The beauty of the unenlightened state―why you don’t have to be “awakened� to play the great game
� Mind over mind―the contradiction at the heart of all spiritual practice
� The veil of thoughts―how to stop being bamboozled by your own brain
� What is reality? Is the universe a ceramic pot, a clockwork engine, or something far more interesting?
� Seventeen hours of philosophy, humor, and stunning insight from legendary spiritual entertainer Alan Watts]]> 10 Alan W. Watts 1591797349 Joel 0 to-read 4.52 2009 You're It! On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found
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]]> The Plague 11989
It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view.

The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, whose individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings; the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.]]> 308 Albert Camus Joel 3 4.05 1947 The Plague
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hero With a Thousand Faces]]> 588138
Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. It is a must-have resource for both experienced students of mythology and the explorer just beginning to approach myth as a source of knowledge.]]> 416 Joseph Campbell 0691017840 Joel 3 4.15 1949 The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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]]> <![CDATA[Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)]]> 65336

It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art," Williams maintained, "it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.]]> 302 William Carlos Williams 081120958X Joel 4 4.18 1963 Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
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]]> The Year of Magical Thinking 7815
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]> 227 Joan Didion 1400078431 Joel 5 3.94 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking
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]]> Mythologies 51715 Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.

Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, and happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.

What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today's social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11. This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes's classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.]]> 160 Roland Barthes 0374521506 Joel 4 4.12 1957 Mythologies
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]]> <![CDATA[Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions]]> 1713426
Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught?

Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup?

Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our stomachs are already full?

And how did we ever start spending $4.15 on a cup of coffee when, just a few years ago, we used to pay less than a dollar?

When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're in control. We think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we?

In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.

Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same "types" of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable--making us "predictably" irrational.

From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, Ariely explains how to break through these systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions. "Predictably Irrational" will change the way we interact with the world--one small decision at a time.]]> 247 Dan Ariely Joel 4 4.12 2008 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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]]> Inner Experience 437771 244 Georges Bataille 0887066356 Joel 5 4.20 1943 Inner Experience
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]]> Slouching Towards Bethlehem 424 The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.

It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.

It contains Didion's famous essay, "Goodbye to All That".]]> 238 Joan Didion Joel 5 4.20 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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]]> The Rebel 11990
Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.]]> 320 Albert Camus 0679733841 Joel 5 4.16 1951 The Rebel
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