Wolfgang's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:50:27 -0700 60 Wolfgang's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Concise 48 Laws of Power 18224060 195 Robert Greene Wolfgang 5 self-help 4.14 The Concise 48 Laws of Power
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Inspired by the bleak harsh writings of GraciĂĄn, Schopenhauer, Napoleon, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, this book shows you how to effectively obtain power and ascend through life unscathed. Morally nihilistic, the historical anecdotes, quotations and metaphors illustrate that to achieve authority in life one must be merciless.
]]> <![CDATA[Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches]]> 28264501 312 Carlo Ancelotti Wolfgang 0 to-read, biography-memoir 4.06 2016 Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life]]> 223556 912 Richard J. Herrnstein 0684824299 Wolfgang 0 to-read, race 3.62 1994 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
author: Richard J. Herrnstein
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]]> <![CDATA[The Metamorphosis and Other Stories]]> 7723 The Metamorphosis,” a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.

Bringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. “The Judgment,” which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and “The Stoker,” which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with “The Metamorphosis,” form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,” and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.

Also included are “In the Penal Colony,” a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and “A Hunger Artist,” about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafka’s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.]]> 224 Franz Kafka 1593080298 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.08 1915 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Freud Verbatim: Quotations and Aphorisms]]> 51837407 The founder of psychoanalysis and one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers, in his own words. Ìę Sigmund Freud is on the very short list of historical figures who have profoundly influenced—perhaps even revolutionized—the way we think and the way we see the world and ourselves. This book compiles quotes, maxims, observations, and witticisms from the founder of psychoanalysis and the popularizer of such terms as ego, superego, and id. Ìę Covering subjects ranging from politics and religion to love and sex, this collection assembles passages from Freud’s major works, as well as making use of personal letters to his friends and family. Organized into ten thematic chapters, this thought-provoking compilation provides a representative look into all of Freud’s work.]]> 138 Sigmund Freud 1468311956 Wolfgang 3 3.67 2014 Freud Verbatim: Quotations and Aphorisms
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]]> <![CDATA[World's Fastest Man: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson]]> 200191528 He’d won the 100-metre sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world-record 9.79 seconds and just had time to say, “A gold medal—that’s something no one can take away from you,” before testing positive for performance enhancing drugs and giving back his medal.
Admitting to steroid use, Johnson has lived in ignominy ever since, but there's much more to his incredible story. The sprint he won has since been called “the dirtiest race in history,” with six of eight competitors linked to doping infractions. The steroid for which Johnson tested positive was not the steroid he was using. There were so many irregularities and mistakes in his testing that credible experts now say he should never have been disqualified and some see a conspiracy of Johnson’s track rivals behind his disgrace.Ìę
Sportswriter Mary Ormsby was on the scene in Seoul. Now, with unprecedented access to Johnson, she tells his whole story for the first time—the rise of a skinny kid working Jamaican sugar estates to track-and-field superstardom to his lifetime ban from the sport and his unyielding efforts to determine exactly what happened to him on that fateful night in 1988.]]> 308 Mary Ormsby 1990823734 Wolfgang 0 to-read, sport 4.18 World's Fastest Man: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson
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]]> <![CDATA[The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition]]> 35118597 *The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths*

'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves below...'

These are the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - brought together into one epic and unforgettable story.

Ideal for the first time reader, it can be read as a single page-turning narrative, while full commentaries as well as a comprehensive index of names make it equally valuable for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the spectacular stories that make up the bedrock of Western literature.

The Greek Myths is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right.]]> 784 Robert Graves 0241982359 Wolfgang 0 to-read, mythology 3.97 1955 The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition
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]]> Ű§Ù„Ù‚Ű±ŰąÙ† Ű§Ù„ÙƒŰ±ÙŠÙ… 646462
The Quran is composed of verses (Ayat) that make up 114 chapters (suras) of unequal length which are classified either as Meccan (Ű§Ù„Ù…ÙƒÙŠŰ©) or Medinan (Ű§Ù„Ù…ŰŻÙ†ÙŠŰ©) depending upon the place and time of their claimed revelation. Muslims believe the Quran to be verbally revealed through the angel JibrÄ«l (Gabriel) from God to Muhammad gradually over a period of approximately 23 years beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death.


Muslims regard the Quran as the main miracle of Muhammad, the proof of his prophethood and the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with the messages revealed to Adam, regarded in Islam as the first prophet, and continued with Suhuf Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham), the Tawrat (Torah or Pentateuch) of Moses, the Zabur (Tehillim or Book of Psalms) of David, and the Injil (Gospel) of Jesus. The Quran assumes familiarity with major narratives recounted in Jewish and Christian scriptures, summarizing some, dwelling at length on others and in some cases presenting alternative accounts and interpretations of events. The Quran describes itself as a book of guidance, sometimes offering detailed accounts of specific historical events, and often emphasizing the moral significance of an event over its narrative sequence.]]> 604 Anonymous Wolfgang 0 to-read, religion 4.48 632 Ű§Ù„Ù‚Ű±ŰąÙ† Ű§Ù„ÙƒŰ±ÙŠÙ…
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]]> <![CDATA[Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder]]> 23846393 Bringing Down the House (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal among mega-wealthy Russian oligarchs—and its international repercussions.

Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the larger-than-life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the waves of privatization to reap riches after the fall of the Soviet regime: “Godfather of the Kremlin” Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician whose first entrepreneurial venture was running an automobile reselling business, and Roman Abramovich, his dashing young protĂ©gĂ© who built a multi-billion-dollar empire of oil and aluminum. Locked in a complex, uniquely Russian partnership, Berezovsky and Abramovich battled their way through the “Wild East” of Russia with Berezovsky acting as the younger man’s krysha — literally, his roof, his protector.

Written with the heart-stopping pacing of a thriller—but even more compelling because it is true—this story of amassing obscene wealth and power depicts a rarefied world seldom seen up close. Under Berezovsky’s krysha, Abramovich built one of Russia’s largest oil companies from the ground up and in exchange made cash deliveries—including 491 million dollars in just one year. But their relationship frayed when Berezovsky attacked President Vladimir Putin in the media—and had to flee to the UK. Abramovich continued to prosper. Dead bodies trailed Berezovsky’s footsteps, and threats followed him to London, where an associate of his died painfully and famously of Polonium poisoning. Then Berezovsky himself was later found dead, declared a suicide.

Exclusively sourced, capturing a momentous period in recent world history, Once Upon a Time in Russia is at once personal and political, offering an unprecedented look into the wealth, corruption, and power behind what Graydon Carter called “the story of our age.”]]> 288 Ben Mezrich 1476771898 Wolfgang 0 history, to-read 3.75 2015 Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Power: The Politics of Liberation]]> 211867 256 Stokely Carmichael Wolfgang 0 to-read, race 4.37 1967 Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
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]]> <![CDATA[Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)]]> 667203 244 Mary Douglas 0415289955 Wolfgang 0 sociology, to-read 4.03 1966 Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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]]> Mein Kampf 54270 384 Adolf Hitler 0395083621 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir 3.15 Mein Kampf
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart]]> 2184798
Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomized the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent. However, its troubles only served to increase the interest of Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, who was sent to cover Africa in 2000. Before long he became obsessed with the idea of recreating Stanley’s original expedition — but travelling alone.

Despite warnings Butcher spent years poring over colonial-era maps and wooing rebel leaders before making his will and venturing to the Congo’s eastern border. He passed through once thriving cities of this country and saw the marks left behind by years of abuse and misrule. Almost, 2,500 harrowing miles later, he reached the Atlantic Ocean, a thinner and a wiser man.

Butcher’s journey was a remarkable feat. But the story of the Congo, vividly told in Blood River, is more remarkable still.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 363 Tim Butcher 0099494280 Wolfgang 0 africa, to-read 3.96 2007 Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
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]]> Blue Octavo Notebooks 22908 107 Franz Kafka 1878972049 Wolfgang 0 to-read, biography-memoir 4.17 1953 Blue Octavo Notebooks
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]]> The Laws of Human Nature 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 Wolfgang 0 to-read, psychology 4.35 2018 The Laws of Human Nature
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]]> <![CDATA[Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body's Natural Ability to Heal Itself]]> 6059965
As featured on Goop.com!

From Alejandro Junger, Eastern medicine specialist, cardiologist, and head of the Integrative Medicine program at Lenox Hill Hospital (as well as a doctor at New York City’s renowned Eleven Eleven Wellness Center), comes the New York Times bestseller, Clean —a medically-proven program that teaches how to remove toxins, rejuvenate our bodies, and restore our natural health.]]> 304 Alejandro Junger 0061735329 Wolfgang 0 to-read, self-help 3.89 2009 Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body's Natural Ability to Heal Itself
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]]> The Outsider 67880 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. First published over forty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual. The Outsider is an individual engaged in an intense self-exploration—a person who lives at the edge, challenges cultural values and "stands for Truth." Born into a world without perspective, where others simply drift thru life, the Outsider creates his own set of rules and lives them in an unsympathetic environment. The relative handful of people who fulfilled Wilson's definition of the Outsider in the 1950s have now become a significant social force, making Wilson's vision more relevant today than ever. Through the works the lives of various artists—including Kafka, Camus, Eliot, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Shaw, Blake, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky—Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society and society's effect on him. Wilson illuminates the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of Self but also the transformation of society as a whole. The book is essential for everyone who shares his conviction that "a new religion is needed".]]> 320 Colin Wilson 0753814323 Wolfgang 0 philosophy, to-read 4.12 1956 The Outsider
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business]]> 12609433 375 Charles Duhigg 1400069289 Wolfgang 0 to-read, self-help 4.13 2012 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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]]> Letters from a Stoic 97411 No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under emperor Nero, Seneca influenced him from a young age with his Stoic principles. Later in life, he wrote Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full.

Seneca’s letters read like a diary or a handbook of philosophical meditations. Often beginning with observations on daily life, the letters focus on many traditional themes of Stoic philosophy, such as the contempt of death, the value of friendship, and virtue as the supreme good.

Using Gummere’s translation from the early twentieth century, this selection of Seneca’s letters shows his belief in the austere, ethical ideals of Stoicism – teachings we can still learn from today.]]> 254 Seneca 0140442103 Wolfgang 0 to-read, philosophy 4.33 64 Letters from a Stoic
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]]> <![CDATA[Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
-ÌęMake time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
-ÌęOvercome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Wolfgang 0 self-help, to-read 4.34 2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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]]> On Anger 17676276 “Kısa sĂŒre sonra Ɵu son nefesimizi vereceğiz. Bu anda, henĂŒz nefes alıp verirken, henĂŒz insanların arasındayken insanlığı onurlandıralım. Kimseye korku salmayalım, kimse için tehlike arz etmeyelim, kayıplarımızı, uğradığımız haksızlıkları, suiistimalleri, sataƟmaları hiçe sayalım ve zaten kısa ömĂŒrlĂŒ olan aksiliklere yĂŒce gönĂŒllĂŒlĂŒkle katlanalım. Dedikleri gibi, biz hesap kitap yapıp kaygılanmakla meƟgul olurken ölĂŒm her an bizi bulabilir.”]]> Seneca Wolfgang 0 to-read, philosophy 4.22 41 On Anger
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]]> The Discourses 1045017 For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world

The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most precise and humane version of Stoic ideals. The Discourses, assembled by his pupil Arrian, catch him in action, publicly setting out his views on ethical dilemmas.

Committed to communicating with the broadest possible audience, Epictetus uses humor, imagery conversations and homely comparisons to put his message across. The results are perfect universal justice and calm indifference in the face of pain.

The most comprehensive edition available with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, glossary, and chronology of Epictetus' life and times. ]]> 384 Epictetus 0460873121 Wolfgang 0 philosophy, to-read 4.28 108 The Discourses
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]]> The Communist Manifesto 30474 The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property, or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which capitalism is overthrown. Their vision transformed the world irrevocably, and remains relevant as a depiction of global capitalism today.]]> 288 Karl Marx 0140447571 Wolfgang 0 politics, to-read 3.67 1848 The Communist Manifesto
author: Karl Marx
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.67
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]]> Metamorphoses 1715
In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 723 Ovid 014044789X Wolfgang 0 fiction, to-read 4.08 8 Metamorphoses
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923]]> 7986601
«En el año 1936, un escritor plantó unas rosas». Así comienza el nuevo libro de Rebecca Solnit, una reflexión sobre un jardinero apasionado que fue, ademås, la voz mås importante del siglo XX frente a la mentira y el George Orwell. A partir de su inesperado encuentro con aquellas rosas que Orwell cultivó hace mås de ochenta años y que siguen hoy rebosantes de vida en su jardín, la autora indaga en ese aspecto mås desconocido de la vida del escritor para descubrir en qué medida su devoción por las flores puede iluminar sus compromisos éticos y estéticos como escritor y como luchador antifascista.

Con su característica capacidad para establecer conexiones inesperadas, Solnit entremezcla la vida y la obra literaria del autor de 1984 , y su vínculo con la naturaleza y el mundo de los sentidos, con otras historias como las de las rosas de la fotógrafa Tina Modotti, la obsesión de Stalin por hacer crecer limones en condiciones de frío extremas, la Guerra Civil española, la crítica de Jamaica Kincaid al colonialismo o la industria del cultivo de rosas en Colombia, y da pie a una reflexión sobre el placer, la belleza, el lenguaje, la escritura, la esperanza y la verdad como actos de resistencia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood

“A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's

“Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.” — Vogue

A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world

“In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So be-gins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power.

Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism.

Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell‘s own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit’s portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.]]> 343 Franz Kafka Wolfgang 0 to-read, biography-memoir 4.11 1974 The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923
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]]> Notebooks 1935-1942 458462 244 Albert Camus 1557784124 Wolfgang 0 to-read, philosophy 4.29 1962 Notebooks 1935-1942
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name: Wolfgang
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]]> The Book of Disquiet 45974 The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague." Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.]]> 544 Fernando Pessoa 0141183047 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.46 1982 The Book of Disquiet
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.46
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]]> I, etcetera 52377 ]]> 256 Susan Sontag 0312420102 Wolfgang 0 to-read 3.79 1963 I, etcetera
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.79
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]]> The Descent of Man 185407 The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Moore and Adrian Desmond.

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously put apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by 'sexual selection' - Darwin's provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Named by Sigmund Freud as 'one of the ten most significant books' ever written, Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human.

In their introduction, James Moore and Adrian Desmond, acclaimed biographers of Charles Darwin, call for a radical re-assessment of the book, arguing that its core ideas on race were fired by Darwin's hatred of slavery. The text is the second and definitive edition and this volume also contains suggestions for further reading, a chronology and biographical sketches of prominent individuals mentioned.

Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs.

If you enjoyed The Descent of Man, you might like Darwin's On the Origin of Species, also available in Penguin Classics.]]> 796 Charles Darwin 0140436316 Wolfgang 0 to-read, science 4.05 1871 The Descent of Man
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]]> Dear Theo 198511 480 Vincent van Gogh 0452275040 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.16 1914 Dear Theo
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]]> <![CDATA[The Letters of Vincent van Gogh]]> 395233 The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics.

Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's, and this selection, spanning his artistic career, sheds light on every facet of the life and work of this complex and tortured man. Engaging candidly and movingly with his religious struggles, his ill-fated search for love, his attacks of mental illness and his relation with his brother Theo, the letters contradict the popular myth of van Gogh as an anti-social madman and a martyr to art, showing instead a man of great emotional and spiritual depths. Above all, they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development and a unique account of the process of creation.

The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages, revealing van Gogh's inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life. This edition also includes the drawings that originally illustrated the letters.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Holland. In 1885 he painted his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters, a haunting scene of domestic poverty. A year later he began studying in Paris, where he met Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, who became very important influences on his work. In 1888 he left Paris for the Provencal landscape at Arles, the subject of many of his best works, including Sunflowers.

If you enjoyed The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, you might also like 100 Artists Manifestos, available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'If there was ever any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent new edition dispels it'
The Times]]> 528 Vincent van Gogh 0140446745 Wolfgang 0 to-read, biography-memoir 4.09 1914 The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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]]> <![CDATA[The Discources: [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition]]]> 36214588 For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world

The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most precise and humane version of Stoic ideals. The Discourses, assembled by his pupil Arrian, catch him in action, publicly setting out his views on ethical dilemmas.

Committed to communicating with the broadest possible audience, Epictetus uses humor, imagery conversations and homely comparisons to put his message across. The results are perfect universal justice and calm indifference in the face of pain.

The most comprehensive edition available with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, glossary, and chronology of Epictetus' life and times. ]]> 568 Epictetus 1427002592 Wolfgang 0 philosophy, to-read 4.40 108 The Discources: [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition]
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]]> Self-Analysis 104702 312 Karen Horney 1406797480 Wolfgang 0 to-read, psychology 4.07 1942 Self-Analysis
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]]> Letter to His Father 187569 127 Franz Kafka 0805204261 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.13 1919 Letter to His Father
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]]> <![CDATA[Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings]]> 25690691 544 Owen Hatherley Wolfgang 0 to-read, architeture 4.01 2015 Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell Paperbacks)]]> 1126066 ―Lewis R. Gordon, Brown University Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination. European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention. Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape. His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed.]]> 272 Charles W. Mills 0801484715 Wolfgang 0 to-read, race 4.34 1998 Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell Paperbacks)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso]]> 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 Wolfgang 0 to-read, fiction 4.08 1320 The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force]]> 3281 432 Jeffrey M. Schwartz 0060988479 Wolfgang 0 science, to-read 4.09 2001 The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
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]]> Does It Matter? 60561
Thus, with his attention locked upon numbers and concepts, man is increasingly unconscious of nature and of his total dependence upon air, water, plants, animals, insects, and bacteria. He has been hallucinated into the notion that the so-called "external" world is a cluster of "objects" separate from himself, that he "encounters" it, that he comes into it instead of out of it. Consequently, our species is fouling its own nest and is in imminent danger of self-obliteration.

Here, a philosopher whose works have been mainly concerned with mysticism and Oriental philosophy gets down to the "nitty-gritty" problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, and housing.]]> 140 Alan W. Watts 0394716655 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.08 1958 Does It Matter?
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]]> <![CDATA[Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life]]> 36064445 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility

In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.

As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights:

‱ For social justice,Ìęfocus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations.
‱ Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general.
‱ Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others.
‱ You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.
‱ Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines.
‱ True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it.

The phrase “skin in the game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”]]> 272 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 0241300657 Wolfgang 0 to-read, philosophy 3.88 2018 Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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]]> Man's Search for Himself 665852 "Analyzes life as we are living it, and the analysis is truthful and profound."--New York Times

Loneliness, boredom, These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value. Man's Search for Himself is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on how to choose, judge, and act during such times.]]> 284 Rollo May 0285621378 Wolfgang 0 psychology, to-read 4.22 1953 Man's Search for Himself
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]]> <![CDATA[Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes, with Other Popular Moralists]]> 13112139 About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum 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, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.]]> 259 Diogenes of Sinope 0199589240 Wolfgang 0 to-read, philosophy 4.13 2012 Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes, with Other Popular Moralists
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Works of C.G. Jung]]> 2913564 1/Psychiatric Studies. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
2/Experimental Researches. Adler & Stein, ed./tr.
3/Psychogenesis of Mental Disease. Adler, Read, Hull et al., eds./tr.
4/Freud & Psychoanalysis. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
5/Symbols of Transformation. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
6/Psychological Types. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
7/Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
8/Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
9i/Archetypes & the Collective Unconscious. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
9ii/Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
10/Civilization in Transition. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
11/Psychology & Religion: West & East. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
12/Psychology & Alchemy. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
13/Alchemical Studies. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
14/Mysterium Coniunctionis. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
15/Spirit in Man, Art & Literature. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
16/Practice of Psychotherapy. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
17/Development of Personality. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
18/The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
19/General Bibliography, Rev. Ress & McGuire, eds.
20/General Index. Adler & Hull, ed./tr.
21 Vol. Hardcover Set. Adler, Fordham et al., eds.
Supplementary volumes occur.]]> 10203 C.G. Jung 0691074763 Wolfgang 0 to-read, psychology 4.48 1958 The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference]]> 50734400 Race is not a biological reality.
Racism thrives on our not knowing this.

Racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see—feeding white nationalism, fueling hatred, endangering lives, and corroding our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even well-intentioned people repeat stereotypes based on “science,” because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too easy to distort. Paradoxically, these misconceptions are multiplying even as scientists make unprecedented discoveries in human genetics—findings that, when accurately understood, are powerful evidence against racism. We’ve never had clearer answers about who we are and where we come from, but this knowledge is sorely needed in our casual conversations about race.

How to Argue With a Racist emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. We now know that the racial categories still dividing us do not align with observable genetic differences. In fact, our differences are so minute that, most of all, they serve as evidence of our shared humanity.]]> 224 Adam Rutherford 1615196714 Wolfgang 0 to-read, science 3.85 2020 How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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]]> Commitment: My Autobiography 26379810 337 Didier Drogba Wolfgang 0 to-read, biography-memoir 4.09 2008 Commitment: My Autobiography
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]]> <![CDATA[The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America]]> 7093931
Following the 1890 census, the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery, crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic references to America as the promised land of opportunity were woven into a cautionary tale about the exceptional threat black people posed to modern urban society. Excessive arrest rates and overrepresentation in northern prisons were seen by many whites--liberals and conservatives, northerners and southerners--as indisputable proof of blacks' inferiority. In the heyday of "separate but equal," what else but pathology could explain black failure in the "land of opportunity"?

The idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans' own ideas about race and crime. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.]]> 392 Khalil Gibran Muhammad 0674035976 Wolfgang 0 to-read, race 4.20 2010 The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
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]]> <![CDATA[Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America]]> 34846249 An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law

Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics—and their impact on people of color—are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done.

But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime. As Forman shows, the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office around the country amid a surge in crime. Many came to believe that tough measures—such as stringent drug and gun laws and “pretext traffic stops” in poor African American neighborhoods—were needed to secure a stable future for black communities. Some politicians and activists saw criminals as a “cancer” that had to be cut away from the rest of black America. Others supported harsh measures more reluctantly, believing they had no other choice in the face of a public safety emergency.

Drawing on his experience as a public defender and focusing on Washington, D.C., Forman writes with compassion for individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas—from the young men and women he defended to officials struggling to cope with an impossible situation. The result is an original view of our justice system as well as a moving portrait of the human beings caught in its coils.]]> 322 James Forman Jr. 0374712905 Wolfgang 0 to-read, race 4.37 2017 Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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]]> <![CDATA[The Basis of Morality (Dover Philosophical Classics)]]> 117582 The Basis of Morality offers Schopenhauer's fullest examination of traditional ethical themes, and it articulates a descriptive form of ethics that contradicts the rationally based prescriptive theories.
Starting with his polemic against Kant's ethics of duty, Schopenhauer anticipates the latter-day critics of moral philosophy. Arguing that compassion forms the basis of morality, he outlines a perspective on ethics in which passion and desire correspond to different moral characters, behaviors, and worldviews. In conclusion, Schopenhauer defines his metaphysics of morals, employing Kant's transcendental idealism to illustrate both the interconnectiveness of being and the affinity of his ethics to Eastern thought.]]> 176 Arthur Schopenhauer 0486446530 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.01 1840 The Basis of Morality (Dover Philosophical Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)]]> 40877668 A superb new edition of Epictetus’s famed handbook on Stoicism—translated by one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55–135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long—one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival—provides a superb new edition of Epictetus’s celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses.Freedom, for Epictetus, is not a human right or a political prerogative but a psychological and ethical achievement, a gift that we alone can bestow on ourselves. We can all be free, but only if we learn to assign paramount value to what we can control (our motivations and reactions), treat what we cannot control with equanimity, and view our circumstances as opportunities to do well and be well, no matter what happens to us through misfortune or the actions of other people.How to Be Free features splendid new translations and the original Greek on facing pages, a compelling introduction that sets Epictetus in context and describes the importance of Stoic freedom today, and an invaluable glossary of key words and concepts. The result is an unmatched introduction to this powerful method of managing emotions and handling life’s situations, from the most ordinary to the most demanding.]]> 114 Epictetus 0691183902 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.30 2018 How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
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]]> <![CDATA[Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)]]> 114517 590 C.G. Jung 0691018154 Wolfgang 0 to-read, psychology 4.44 1912 Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity]]> 658894 248 Robert L. Moore 188860221X Wolfgang 0 to-read, psychology 4.29 2003 Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
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]]> <![CDATA[Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series)]]> 17354208
Fore more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.

Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In “The Relentless 13,” he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent’s weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients—“don’t think”—and shows you that anything is possible. Packed with previously untold stories and unparalleled insight into the psyches of the most successful and accomplished athletes of our time, Relentless shows you how even the best get better . . . and how you can too.]]> 233 Tim S. Grover 1476714207 Wolfgang 0 to-read, self-help 3.93 2013 Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series)
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.93
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]]> A Brief History of Time 3869
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.]]> 226 Stephen Hawking 0553380168 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.22 1988 A Brief History of Time
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen]]> 1034476
Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders over a period of four years. His victims, all young homosexual men, had never been reported missing. Brian Masters, with Nilsen's full cooperation, has produced a unique study of a serial killer's mind, revealing the disturbing psychology of a mass murderer.]]> 352 Brian Masters 0099552612 Wolfgang 0 to-read 3.78 1985 Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> Letters to Felice 116511
The more than five hundred letters Kafka wrote to Felice--through their breakup, a second engagement in 1917, and their final parting in the fall of that year, when Kafka began to feel the effects of the tuberculosis that would eventually claim his life--reveal the full measure of his inner turmoil as he tried, in vain, to balance his desire for human connection with what he felt were the solitary demands of his craft.]]> 624 Franz Kafka 0805208518 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.18 1967 Letters to Felice
author: Franz Kafka
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[Of Human Freedom (Penguin Great Ideas)]]> 9248625 112 Epictetus 0141192356 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.13 100 Of Human Freedom (Penguin Great Ideas)
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]]> <![CDATA[Discourses and Selected Writings]]> 4143812 Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing document of daily life in the classical world.

In the introduction that accompanies his lively new translation, Robert Dobbin discusses Epictetus' life, his place in the Stoic tradition, his influence on world philosophies and his relevance in the modern day. This edition also includes a bibliography, notes and a glossary of names.]]> 276 Epictetus 0140449469 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.41 108 Discourses and Selected Writings
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]]> <![CDATA[The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy]]> 231083 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues to account for many of the phenomena of the observed world, and Newtonian celestial dynamics is used to determine the orbits of our space vehicles.
This completely new translation, the first in 270 years, is based on the third (1726) edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms.
Newton's principles describe acceleration, deceleration, and inertial movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon, planets, and comets. A great work in itself, the Principia also revolutionized the methods of scientific investigation. It set forth the fundamental three laws of motion and the law of universal gravity, the physical principles that account for the Copernican system of the world as emended by Kepler, thus effectively ending controversy concerning the Copernican planetary system.
The illuminating Guide to the Principia by I. Bernard Cohen, along with his and Anne Whitman's translation, will make this preeminent work truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.]]> 974 Isaac Newton 0520088174 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.22 1687 The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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]]> The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 308059 354 Eric J. Hobsbawm 0679772545 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.27 1975 The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
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]]> <![CDATA[The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848]]> 550840 356 Eric J. Hobsbawm 0679772537 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.22 1962 The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
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]]> <![CDATA[The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991]]> 308060 627 Eric J. Hobsbawm 0679730052 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.30 1994 The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
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]]> The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 774198 —from the back cover]]> 405 Eric J. Hobsbawm 0679721754 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.26 1987 The Age of Empire, 1875–1914
author: Eric J. Hobsbawm
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]]> The Selfish Gene 61535
Chapters:
1. Why are people?
2. The replicators
3. Immortal coils
4. The gene machine
5. Aggression stability and the selfish machine
6. Genesmanship
7. Family planning
8. Battle of the generations
9. Battle of the sexes
10. You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours
11. Memes: the new replicators
12. Nice guys finish first
13. The long reach of the gene]]> 360 Richard Dawkins 0199291152 Wolfgang 0 to-read 4.15 1976 The Selfish Gene
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]]> <![CDATA[Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies]]> 1842
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal]]> 498 Jared Diamond 0739467352 Wolfgang 0 history, to-read 4.04 1997 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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]]> <![CDATA[Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game Pro-Edition (Bloomsbury Sigma)]]> 26073086
What's the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style? How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically? And how can we relate the mechanics of a Mexican Wave to the singing of cicadas in an Australian valley? Welcome to the world of mathematical modeling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of soccer. Soccer is indeed more than a game and this book is packed with game theory. After reading it, you will forever watch the game with new eyes.]]> 304 David Sumpter 1472924126 Wolfgang 0 to-read, sport 3.85 2016 Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game Pro-Edition (Bloomsbury Sigma)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)]]> 11965249
One of the most important Greek writers of the twentieth century, Kazantzakis (1883–1957) participated in or witnessed some of the most extraordinary events of his times, including both world wars and the Spanish and Greek civil wars. As a foreign correspondent, an official in several Greek governments, and a political and artistic exile, he led a relentlessly nomadic existence, living in France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union, and England. He visited the Versailles Peace Conference, attended the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, interviewed Mussolini and Franco, and briefly served as a Greek cabinet minister―all the while producing a stream of novels, poems, plays, travel writing, autobiography, and translations. The letters collected here touch on almost every aspect of Kazantzakis's rich and tumultuous life, and show the genius of a man who was deeply attuned to the artistic, intellectual, and political events of his times.]]> 904 Nikos Kazantzakis 0691147027 Wolfgang 0 to-read, biography-memoir 4.22 2011 The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[This House Has Fallen: Nigeria In Crisis]]> 931524 368 Karl Maier 0813340454 Wolfgang 0 africa, to-read 3.92 2000 This House Has Fallen: Nigeria In Crisis
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.92
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]]> The Trouble with Nigeria 602809 100 Chinua Achebe 9781561475 Wolfgang 0 to-read, africa 4.13 1984 The Trouble with Nigeria
author: Chinua Achebe
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1984
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]]> Black Man of the Nile 35475 428 Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan 0933121261 Wolfgang 0 history, to-read 4.51 1989 Black Man of the Nile
author: Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1989
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness]]> 6792458
As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.]]> 290 Michelle Alexander Wolfgang 0 to-read, race 4.52 2010 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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]]> <![CDATA[The Africans: A Triple Heritage]]> 1043764 336 Ali A. Mazrui 0316552011 Wolfgang 0 history, to-read 3.95 1986 The Africans: A Triple Heritage
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]]> Veronika Decides to Die 1431 The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.

Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.

The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.

In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.

]]> 285 Paulo Coelho Wolfgang 0 fiction, to-read 3.75 1998 Veronika Decides to Die
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath]]> 11623
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.

Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.]]> 732 Sylvia Plath 0385720254 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 4.27 2000 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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]]> <![CDATA[Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer]]> 28659806 464 Arthur Schopenhauer Wolfgang 0 to-read, philosophy 4.11 Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
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]]> The Social Contract 12651
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract’, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.]]> 168 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 0143037498 Wolfgang 0 to-read, politics 3.80 1762 The Social Contract
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]]> <![CDATA[The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports]]> 40225612 Ìę
This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a twenty-first-century entertainment empire. No one knew it when their experiment began, but without any particular genius or acumen, the motley cast of billionaires and hucksters behind the modern Premier League struck gold.

Pretty soon, everyone wanted to try their luck, from Russian oligarchs to Emirati sheikhs, American tycoons, and Asian Tiger titans. Some succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Some lost everything. Today, players are sold for tens of millions, clubs are valued in the billions, and games are beamed out to nearly two hundred countries, all while the league struggles to preserve its English soul.

Deeply researched and drawing on one hundred exclusive interviews, including the key decision makers at every major English team, The Club is the definitive and wildly entertaining narrative of how the Premier League took over the world.]]> 368 Joshua Robinson 1328506452 Wolfgang 0 sport, to-read 4.31 2018 The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines]]> 34746655
Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. The game was physical, bruising and attritional, based on strength over speed, aggression over finesse. It was the era of the midfield general, reducers, big men up front and getting it in the mixer; 4-4-2 was the order of the day. Few teams experimented tactically.

And then, almost overnight, it all changed. The creation of the Premier League coincided with one of the most seismic rule changes in football the abolition of the back-pass. Suddenly defenders had no-get-out-of-jail-free card, goalkeepers had to be able to field and play the ball and the pace of the game quickened immeasurably. Tactics evolved dramatically, helped by an increased foreign influence.

The Mixer is the first book to delve deep into the tactical story of the Premier League, and take a long view of how the game has developed over the last quarter century. From Ferguson’s directness to Keegan’s relentlessly attacking Newcastle outfit, to Mourinho’s cagey, reactive Chelsea, all the way to Ranieri’s counter-attacking champions, The Mixer is one of the most entertaining, rich and knowledgeable football books ever written.]]> 571 Michael Cox 0008215561 Wolfgang 0 sport, to-read 4.38 2017 The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
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]]> Paradise Lost 15997 Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.

Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.]]> 453 John Milton 0140424393 Wolfgang 0 to-read, fiction 3.83 1667 Paradise Lost
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]]> A Clockwork Orange 227463 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."]]> 192 Anthony Burgess Wolfgang 0 fiction, to-read 3.98 1962 A Clockwork Orange
author: Anthony Burgess
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.98
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]]> The Collected Poems 75504
- "Harmonium"
- "Ideas of Order"
- "The Man With the Blue Guitar"
- "Parts of the World"
- "Transport Summer"
- "The Auroras of Autumn"
- "The Rock"]]> 560 Wallace Stevens 0679726691 Wolfgang 0 poetry, to-read 4.27 1954 The Collected Poems
author: Wallace Stevens
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1954
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of AnaĂŻs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934]]> 46064 384 AnaĂŻs Nin 0156260255 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 4.15 The Diary of AnaĂŻs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and AnaĂŻs Nin]]> 48990 424 Elizabeth Podnieks 077352021X Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 4.10 2000 Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and AnaĂŻs Nin
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection]]> 711571 252 NiccolĂČ Machiavelli 0226500411 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 4.05 1767 The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.05
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]]> Prime of Life (1929-1944) 141433 480 Simone de Beauvoir 1569249563 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 4.17 1960 Prime of Life (1929-1944)
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.17
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]]> American Psycho 4021 American Psycho. Y lo cierto es que había razón para tanta polémica, pues esta novela de Bret Easton Ellis constituye una de las críticas mås feroces que un escritor norteamericano ha hecho a su propio país: una sociedad autocomplaciente y orgullosa de sí misma. Para su denuncia, el autor ha escogido un camino arriesgado: Patrick Bateman, el protagonista de American Psycho, no es un rebelde ni un paria; Patrick es un joven de éxito que, sin embargo, también es capaz de violar, torturar y asesinar.]]> 576 Bret Easton Ellis 8495501473 Wolfgang 0 fiction 3.56 1991 American Psycho
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1991
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]]> Bronson 2019954 374 Charles Bronson 1857825004 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir 3.82 2000 Bronson
author: Charles Bronson
name: Wolfgang
average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis]]> 130393 250 Karen Horney 0393309401 Wolfgang 0 psychology, to-read 4.23 1945 Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.23
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]]> The Souls of Black Folk 318742 Publication of The Souls of Black Folk was a dramatic event that helped to polarize black leaders into two groups: the more conservative followers of Washington and the more radical supporters of aggressive protest. Its influence cannot be overstated. It is essential reading for everyone interested in African-American history and the struggle for civil rights in America.]]> 288 W.E.B. Du Bois Wolfgang 0 race, to-read 4.30 1903 The Souls of Black Folk
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]]> The Trial 17690 The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.]]> 255 Franz Kafka Wolfgang 0 fiction, to-read 4.00 1925 The Trial
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name: Wolfgang
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators]]> 25067939 298 Peter Langman 1442233575 Wolfgang 0 to-read, true-crime 3.80 2015 School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely]]> 27255482
There has never been a greater need for you to take charge of your financial affairs. Fortunately the tools available have never been more powerful or inexpensive. How to Own the World explains why this is and what you can do to make the most of your money.]]> 327 Andrew Craig Wolfgang 0 to-read, economics 4.37 2015 How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> The Black Cat 391724
The tale centers on two matters, a black cat and the deterioration of a man. The man is one who enjoyed family life with his wife and numerous pets, but then he changed radically for the worse. The story is often compared to "The Tell-Tale Heart" because of the profound psychological elements these two works share. "The Black Cat" is a story you will never forget.

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the story "The Black Cat." Collections and other short stories by the author can be found elsewhere on ÀÏ»ą»úÎÈÓź·œ·š.]]> 24 Edgar Allan Poe 1594561753 Wolfgang 0 fiction, to-read 4.07 1843 The Black Cat
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]]> I Am Not Your Negro 33198164 I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.]]> 144 James Baldwin 0525434690 Wolfgang 0 race, to-read 4.49 2017 I Am Not Your Negro
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]]> The Story of My Life 510091 576 Giacomo Casanova 0140439153 Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 3.84 1789 The Story of My Life
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]]> <![CDATA[The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia]]> 130319 second edition as Samuel Johnson revised it.]]> 224 Samuel Johnson 0192839136 Wolfgang 0 fiction, to-read 3.48 1759 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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]]> <![CDATA[Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson]]> 19191577 97 Hester Lynch Piozzi Wolfgang 0 biography-memoir, to-read 3.67 1786 Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time]]> 35187183 Your Brain Is a Time Machine reveals that the brain’s ultimate purpose may be to predict the future, and thus that your brain is a time machine.]]> 304 Dean Buonomano 0393355608 Wolfgang 0 science, to-read 3.89 2017 Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
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]]> The Order of Time 40674555
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe.

Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.]]> 5 Carlo Rovelli 0525626093 Wolfgang 0 science 4.06 2017 The Order of Time
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]]> <![CDATA[Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen]]> 6289283 Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.

With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.]]> 287 Christopher McDougall Wolfgang 0 to-read, sport 4.29 2009 Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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]]> <![CDATA[Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health]]> 661134
This brilliant, provocative book will force patients, practitioners, and prescribers alike to rethink the causes of mental illness and the methods by which we treat it.]]> 304 Elliot S. Valenstein 0743237870 Wolfgang 0 to-read, psychiatry 3.89 1998 Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health
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