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Ikigai
According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you...- $ 500.00
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...- $ 500.00
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin—the titular 'idiot'—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and...- $ 350.00
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Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of...- $ 500.00
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Utopia
In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast...- $ 550.00
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Dictionary of Received Ideas
A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of...- $ 250.00
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
A Tyranny of Truth. Hannah Arendt—one of the twentieth century’s most profound political thinkers—remains a figure both celebrated and misunderstood. Best known for her seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt offered a fierce defense of openness, freedom, and critical thought in political...- $ 520.00
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Einstein in Kafkaland
How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe. From 1911 to 1912, the city of Prague played host to two of the 20th century’s most enigmatic minds: Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Though they moved in different circles, the...- $ 550.00
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A Philosophy of Walking
In this French bestseller, renowned philosopher Frédéric Gros explores the many forms walking can take—from pilgrimages and leisurely strolls to protest marches and nature walks—and what each reveals about the human condition. Gros reflects on how walking shaped the lives and minds of great...- $ 450.00
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Letters to a Young Poet
A timeless guide to the creative life from one of literature’s most profound voices. At the dawn of the twentieth century, poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged a series of heartfelt letters with a young aspiring writer—a correspondence that would become a lasting source of...- $ 260.00
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
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The Poetics of Space
Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey...- $ 400.00
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The Gift
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He...- $ 450.00
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a work that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of...- $ 450.00
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The Oracle of Night
The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon....- $ 550.00
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The Golden Bough
A Study in Comparative Religion. Published in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. Frazer's learning inspired a...- $ 700.00
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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. Francis draws on thirty years of island adventures from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the...- $ 450.00
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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy, and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.- $ 500.00
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Nexus
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge...- $ 500.00
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking essay remains a cornerstone of feminist thought nearly a century after its publication. In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf explores what it takes for women to write—and to thrive creatively—in a world shaped by male privilege. Through vivid storytelling, incisive...- $ 400.00
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Everything Must Go
The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with...- $ 550.00
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The Wolves of Eternity
In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and...- $ 450.00
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
What will the world look like when artificial intelligence outpaces our understanding? How can we protect truth in an age of misinformation, or prepare our children for a future we can barely imagine? What happens to freedom when every move is tracked by data?...- $ 400.00
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The 5 Types of Wealth
A groundbreaking guide to rejecting the default path and designing your dream life—a life centered around The 5 Types of Wealth.Sahil Bloom offers a transformative guide for redesigning your life around five types of wealth—Time Wealth, Social Wealth, Mental Wealth, Physical Wealth, and Financial Wealth—that...- $ 400.00
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The Geography of Bliss
Part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens...- $ 450.00
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The Rebel
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the...- $ 400.00
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
What does it mean to live—and survive—on a damaged Earth? This groundbreaking anthology brings together twenty leading voices in science, the humanities, and the arts to explore the tangled relationships between humans, nonhumans, and the planet we share. From haunted landscapes to unexpected interspecies...- $ 580.00
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On Women
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges,...- $ 400.00
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The Mushroom at the End of the World
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it...- $ 400.00
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The Spinoza Problem
A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers. In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century...- $ 450.00
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When Nietzsche Wept
In 19th-century Vienna, a city alive with intellectual revolution, a powerful story of fate, passion, and self-discovery unfolds. Josef Breuer, a pioneer of psychoanalysis, is a respected physician at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, the tormented philosopher, teeters on the edge of...- $ 400.00
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The Castle
Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. The Castle's...- $ 350.00
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The Brothers Karamazov
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha,...- $ 650.00
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature. An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion...- $ 550.00
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Devils
As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder...- $ 500.00
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A Calendar of Wisdom
In the final years of his life, Leo Tolstoy set out to distill the wisdom of the ages. The result was, A Calendar of Wisdom—a deeply personal, daily collection of reflections drawn from the world’s greatest thinkers, including Socrates, the Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, and...- $ 400.00
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a sweeping philosophical epic about a world unraveling under the weight of its own contradictions—and the extraordinary individuals who choose to withdraw their strength from it. As industry collapses, innovation stalls, and society turns on its most brilliant minds, a single...- $ 600.00
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The Portable Thoreau
Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the...- $ 430.00
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Eureka
Initially composed by Poe as a public lecture towards the end of his career and considered by him the culmination of all his life's work, Eureka is an extended treatise about the creation, existence and the ultimate end of the world. An idiosyncratic blend...- $ 250.00
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