Measuring Time

9 best books like Measuring Time (Helon Habila): Everything Good Will Come, The Glass Palace, Light in August, Leviathan, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life, Language, Truth, and Logic, The Problems of Philosophy

Everything Good Will Come

Author	Sefi Atta
ISBN	1844370569

Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule—though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school...

The Glass Palace

Author	Amitav Ghosh
ISBN	0375758771

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into...

Light in August

Author	William Faulkner
ISBN	0679732268

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted...

Leviathan

Author	Thomas Hobbes
ISBN	0140431950

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Author	David Hume
ISBN	1420926993

I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...

Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty

Author

Isaiah Berlin

Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating...

Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

Author	Gillian Rose
ISBN	0805210784

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished thinkers, to illuminate the deepest issues of our lives: love, friendship, sex, illness, and death. Rose's crisis gives her search the force of immediacy and intimacy; her willingness to face life...

Language, Truth, and Logic

Author	A.J. Ayer
ISBN	0486200108

Classic introduction to objectives & methods of schools of empiricism & linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth &...

The Problems of Philosophy

Author	Bertrand Russell
ISBN	1421903679

Plato, in the Symposium, was perhaps the first person to consider the question of the "unliked review". If a review never receives any votes, can it truly be said to exist? This problem has tormented many of the world's greatest philosophers. Bishop Berkeley's famous answer is that God reads and likes...