Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Exposé of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children "Believe They Are What They Own." (USA Today)
10 best books like Born to Buy: A Groundbreaking Exposé of a Marketing Culture That Makes Children "Believe They Are What They Own." (USA Today) (Juliet B. Schor): Montana 1948, Doctor No, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life, What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
| Author | Larry Watson |
| ISBN | 0671507036 |
The events of that small-town summer forever alter David Hayden's view of his family: his self-effacing father, a sheriff who never wears his badge; his clear sighted mother; his uncle, a charming war hero and respected doctor; and the Hayden's lively, statuesque Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little...
| Author | Ian Fleming |
| ISBN | 0142002038 |
The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter.
Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over.
On...
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0399184120 |
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close...
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
| Author | David Benatar |
| ISBN | 0199296421 |
Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation. (4) It would be better if, as a result of there being no...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
| Author | Kevin Dutton |
| ISBN | 0374291357 |
In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of “madness” along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates...
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
| Author | Bruce Cannon Gibney |
| ISBN | 0316395781 |
In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
| Author | Robert D. Putnam |
| ISBN | 0743203046 |
Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work--but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."
Drawing on vast new data that reveal...
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
| Author | Joshua Fields Millburn |
Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life is our finest, most important creation to date. It’s also the best thing we’ve ever written about Minimalism and will likely serve as the cornerstone to our work for years to come. It took us a year to write this book—a year of creating the best material possible...
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
| Author | Joe Navarro |
| ISBN | 0061438294 |
He says that's his best offer. Is it?
She says she agrees. Does she?
The interview went great—or did it?
He said he'd never do it again. But he did.
Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer...
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
| Author | Sarah Perry |
| ISBN | 1616583509 |
Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to the creation of sentient beings like us. Today, however, people no longer "just happen;" they are created by the voluntary acts of other people.
This book examines several questions about...
Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
| Author | Ben Carson |
| ISBN | 0310269008 |
This book is for you if your life is a series of shattered dreams. This book is for you if you have no dreams at all. It's for you if you've bought the lie that you'll never amount to anything. That's not true. Your life is BIG--far bigger than you've imagined. Inside these pages lie the keys to recognizing...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
| Author | Nicholas Carr |
| ISBN | 0393339750 |
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing...
| Author | Emily Dickinson |
| ISBN | 1593080506 |
Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with...
Society, by statistical necessity, needs to focus on the majority. It needs to be built and designed for "the average." Society, by moral necessity, also needs to focus on the disadvantaged and disabled. Helping those who cannot help themselves. But while the majority of society's resources, attention,...
Worthless: The Indispensible Guide to Choosing the Right Major
| Author | Aaron Clarey |
| ISBN | 1467978302 |
"Worthless" is the single most important book young men and women can read before they attend college. While teachers, guidance counselors and even parents are afraid to tell you the truth in an effort to spare your feelings, "Worthless" delivers a blunt and real-world assessment about the economic...
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
| Author | John De Graaf |
| ISBN | 1576753573 |
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book...
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
| Author | Arthur Schopenhauer |
| ISBN | 3423306718 |
“The world is my idea:”
And so with these words Schopenhauer begins his magnum opus with one of the most provocative opening lines in all of literature. He continues, “a truth which holds good for every thing that lives and knows,… [Man] knows not a sun, and not an earth, but...
The Antinatalism Magazine: September 2017, vol 1.
| Author | The Antinatalism Magazine |
The Antinatalism Magazine is the world’s first magazine dedicated to philosophy of antinatalism. Antinatalism magazine aims to develop and promote the philosophy of antinatalism, and to facilitate discussion on the philosophy of antinatalism. Publication interests of The Antinatalism Magazine...
Poor Richard's Retirement: Retirement for Everyday Americans
Don’t have enough money saved up for retirement? No problem. Never started a 401k or IRA? Don’t worry. And are you so far behind in your personal finances you’re worried you’ll never be able to retire? It’s all good. Because whether you know it or not, the entire US retirement system is horribly...
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
| Author | Tali Sharot |
| ISBN | 0307379833 |
From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives.
Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally...
Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
A strategic combination of smart financial choices, simple living, and increased self-reliance brought me financial independence at 30 and allowed me to retire from my profession at 33. Early Retirement Extreme shows how I did it and how anyone can formulate their own plan for financial independence....
Procreation Is Murder: The Case for Voluntary Human Extinction
Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
A New York Times Best Seller
“Powerful...an important read." —Publishers Weekly
New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football
In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer...
The Dictionary of Body Language
| Author | Joe Navarro |
| ISBN | 0008292604 |
I loved Navarro's "What Everybody Is Saying" and I was eagerly anticipating The Dictionary of Body Language. The good and bad news is that it delivers as promised. It is bite-sized and still comprehensive in documenting the myriad aspects of body language and their possible interpretations. The disappointment,...
Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter
| Author | Roderick P. Hart |
| ISBN | 0761916245 |
Roderick P Hart's Revised Edition of Seducing America is a revealing examination of how television's format of presenting politics has changed the way viewers act, vote and feel about politics in the United States. With a rigorous blend of rhetorical and statistical research, Hart asserts that while...
| Author | John Cheever |
| ISBN | 9500427451 |
Bienvenidos a Bullet Park, un universo en donde hasta sus habitantes más intachables pueden sentirse aterrorizados por el simple acto de mirarse al espejo. En ese ambiente asfixiante, John Cheever narra la azarosa intersección de las vidas de dos hombres: Eliot Nailles, un buen hombre que ama con...
Confessions of an Antinatalist
| Author | Jim Crawford |
| ISBN | 1616583452 |
Life is a mixture of good and bad, or so they say. Trouble is, there's no way to determine where a particular life might fall along fortune's spectrum. For every child born into the lap of luxury, there's another born on the point of a knife. There are no guarantees as to what may transpire as the immediate...
L'art de guillotiner les procréateurs: Manifeste anti-nataliste
| Author | Théophile de Giraud |
| ISBN | 2916502009 |
Avons-nous le droit de mettre des enfants au monde ? Et si oui, sous quelles conditions ? Voici les deux questions que Théophile de Giraud s'attache à élucider au fil de ce livre que certains trouveront scandaleux, mais que d'autres jugeront sans doute salutaire dans la radicalité de son questionnement...
