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Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

10 best books like Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems (Rudyard Kipling): Germinal, The Social Contract, Invitation to a Beheading, 5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists, Symposium / Phaedrus, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats, The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals, The Russian Anarchists, Selected Poems, Deschooling Our Lives

Germinal
AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN0140447423
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.

Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young...
The Social Contract
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0143037498
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

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...
Invitation to a Beheading
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0679725318
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary...
5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists
AuthorKarl Shaw
ISBN0767920597
All in perfectly bad taste

Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts...
Symposium / Phaedrus
AuthorPlato
ISBN0486277984
On the Symposium:
First things first, the reason I found this translation so smooth and entertaining is the language, this is by far the easiest English book I've read.
In the Symposium, Agathon holds a supper with his friends (writers and philosophers) and they all decide to make their devotions...
Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats
AuthorRichard H. Pitcairn
Over 400,000 copies of Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats have been sold since its original publication more than 20 years ago

The book that is the definitive guide to a natural lifestyle for dogs and cats is now completely updated and revised--for the first...
The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals
AuthorJoel Sartore
ISBN1426217773
This lush book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals--especially those that are endangered. His powerful message, conveyed with humor, compassion,...
The Russian Anarchists
AuthorPaul Avrich
ISBN1904859488
In the turmoil of the Russian insurrection of 1905 and civil war of 1917, the anarchists attempted to carry out their program of “direct action”—workers’ control of production, the creation of free rural and urban communes, and partisan warfare against the enemies of a free society.

Avrich...
Selected Poems
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0486275582
This selection of many of Shelley’s best-known and most representative poems will give readers an exciting encounter with one of the most original and stimulating figures in English poetry. Thirty-seven poems of varying lengths are included, among them such well-known verses as "Adonais," "Ode...
Deschooling Our Lives
AuthorMatt Hern
ISBN0865713421
A provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools, this book argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood, and community-based educational efforts. Hern examines how the day-to-day experience of school teaches subservience, deadens...
Experience and Education
AuthorJohn Dewey
ISBN0684838281
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his...
Seeing
AuthorJosé Saramago
ISBN0156032732
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had...
The Museum of Hoaxes
AuthorAlex Boese
ISBN0452284651
The Museum of Hoaxes is a fascinating historical tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many collected here for the first time. Read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; be astounded at the imposters, pretenders, and tricksters...
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