Books similar to In Praise of Shadows
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Man's Search For Meaning
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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored i
The Ride of a Lifetime Lessons in Creative Leaders..
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The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring t
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technolog
Human Compatible AI and the Problem of Control
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'The most important book I have read in quite some time' Daniel Kahneman; 'A must-read' Max Tegmark; 'The book we've all been waiting for' Sam Harris
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After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn a
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast.
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, i
The Essays of Warren Buffett
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A modern classic, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America is the book Buffett autographs most and likes best. Its popularity and longevity over three decades attest to the widespr
Inside North Korea
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Pastel Dreams
The powerful architecture of North Korea
Erased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea’s trophy capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch from 1953, in line with
Bullshit Jobs
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Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average w
We Should All Be Feminists
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A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
‘I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a differe
Pod znakiem Saturna
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Trzecie wydanie słynnego zbioru esejów Susan Sontag. Amerykańska autorka kreśli sylwetki kilku twórców, m.in..: Waltera Benjamina, Eliasa Canettiego, Antonina Artauda, zastanawia się nad źródłami pop
Fakty do kupy 1003 ciekawostki do przetrawienia na..
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Umrzesz ze śmiechu. Albo się popłaczesz. Albo jeszcze gorzej…
Oto zupełnie nowy zbiór zabawnych i przerażających wiadomości o świecie i człowieku oraz o tym, dlaczego w sumie mamy przechlapane (żeby
Esej o malarstwie
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Esej o malarstwie Diderota jest jednym z najgłośniejszych tekstów o sztuce w pisarstwie francuskim. Był podsumowaniem kilkuletniego okresu życia Diderota, w dużej mierze poświęconego sztukom pięknym,
Kwiaty Japonii i sztuka kompozycji kwiatowych
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Josiah Conder oprowadza czytelnika przez cztery pory roku i całą Japonię, pozwalając zobaczyć, co w sercu Japończyka jest drogie. Podczas tej wyprawy można zobaczyć drzewa, krzewy, kwiaty i trawy ros
Communist Manifesto
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The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be
The Courage of Hopelessness
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Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics - all of
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man How Ame..
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False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the ‘corporatocracy’ – a vast network of corporations, ba
The David Foster Wallace Reader
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David Foster Wallace was one of the most celebrated and visionary writers of the late 20th and early 21st century. He wrote prolifically across fiction and non-fiction, from genre-defining reportage
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
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Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity
On Tyranny
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'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer
History does not repeat,
Zero to One
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The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to cop
Ways of Seeing
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John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC
God Save Texas
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'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey th
The Beauty of Everyday Things
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"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with obje
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