Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern
10 best books like Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (John N. Gray): The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, Permanent Record, Poems 1962-2012, A Short History of Decay, Gleden med skjeden, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Wonders of the Solar System, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help, Hangman's Gate, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
| Author | Robert Kanigel |
| ISBN | 0349104522 |
The tale of a relationship between a young Indian mathematics genius, Ramanujan, and his tutor at Cambridge University, G.H. Hardy, in the years before World War I. Through their eyes the reader is taken on a journey through numbers theory. Ramanujan would regularly telescope 12 steps of logic into...
| Author | Edward Snowden |
| ISBN | 1250237238 |
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0374126089 |
Even when collected, Louise Glück’s poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like...
| Author | Emil M. Cioran |
| ISBN | 1559704640 |
The Poetry of Death
A Short History of Decay is a compendium of pessimistic aphorism, a sort of cosmopolitan collection of Gnostic scripture through the ages. It is entertaining, observationally acute, and compelling - all descriptions that the author would object to strenuously. I think...
| Author | Nina Brochmann |
| ISBN | 8203295797 |
Er du sikker på at du kjenner ditt eget underliv? Selv om kvinnens kjønnsorganer ikke akkurat er en ny oppdagelse, er det utrolig mye kvinner ikke vet om sin egen kropp. Vet du egentlig hvorfor mensen gjør vondt? Finnes jomfruhinnen? Hvorfor sliter du med å få orgasme? Hvor lenge kan du vente med...
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Let's get one thing straight, Seymour Glass was not a sex offender. He never asked Sybil to look at 'his bananafish' as some ignorant reviewer posted.
This is a story about desperation, about a man who was exhausted of trying to fit into a society where he was not welcomed. In the beginning, with...
Wonders of the Solar System
| Author | Brian Cox |
| ISBN | 0007386907 |
In Wonders of the Solar System – the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series – Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit.
The Wonders of the Solar System – from the giant ice fountains of Enceladus...
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
| Author | Larissa MacFarquhar |
| ISBN | 1594204330 |
How far do you really go to “do unto others”? New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar reveals the individuals who devote themselves fully to bettering the lives of strangers, even when it comes at great personal cost
There are those of us who help and those who live to help. Larissa MacFarquhar...
The highly anticipated sequel to
A DEMON IN SILVER
,
HANGMAN'S GATE
continues the epic saga of the War of the Archons
After uniting the bandit clans, the Iron Tusk has swept into Shengen and taken control of the empire. With an army behind him, he marches along the Skull Road, ready...
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
| Author | Deborah E. Lipstadt |
| ISBN | 0060593776 |
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than...
Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
Russell Kirk begins this classic, orginally published as The Intelligent Women's Guide to Conservativism, by defining a conservative as "a person who believes there is something in our life worth saving." From there Kirk embarks on a brilliant and witty explanation of conservative political...
| Author | Daniel Gordis |
| ISBN | 0471789623 |
Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought...
Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
| Author | Vladimir I. Arnold |
| ISBN | 0387968903 |
In this text, the author constructs the mathematical apparatus of classical mechanics from the beginning, examining all the basic problems in dynamics, including the theory of oscillations, the theory of rigid body motion, and the Hamiltonian formalism. This modern approch, based on the theory...
A Ved Mehta Reader: The Craft of the Essay
| Author | Ved Mehta |
| ISBN | 0300071892 |
Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this book - the first special collection of Mehta's outstanding writings - the distinguished author demonstrates a wide range of possibilities available to the narrative and descriptive writer today. Addressing...
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
Across the West, anti-immigration populists are tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. Immigration is remaking Europe and North America: over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority...
| Author | Frederick Seidel |
| ISBN | 0374126550 |
While it would probably make him produce “cow flops on the floor,” as Seidel writes in one of his many recent, disgust-filled poems about aging (especially as that process involves women), I find him perhaps the most adorably tonic current toilers in the art. Our reader-friendly age, as though...
Natural Right and History
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226776948 |
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned...
The Big Book of Serial Killers
There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us.
These serial killers...
