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Letters from a Stoic by Seneca the Younger (The Penguin classics L210)
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This selection of Seneca's letters shows him upholding the ethical ideals of Stoicism—the wisdom of the self-possessed person immune to …
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was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a …
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The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the …
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Summary: Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari by Yuval Noah Harari
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, [Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut]) is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, …
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The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek
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The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 book by the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek. The work …
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The blank slate by Steven Pinker
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea …
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of …
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At The Existentialist Café by NA, Sarah Bakewell
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Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue …
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Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
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In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news …
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Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
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Letters to a Young Contrarian is Christopher Hitchens' contribution, released in 2001, to the Art of Mentoring series published by …
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At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated …
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