Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction
8 best books like Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (Christopher Janaway): Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, The Undiscovered Self, The Emigrants, Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, The Cockroach, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
| Author | Thomas Sowell |
| ISBN | 0465081452 |
This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general public-without graphs, statistics, or jargon. In addition to being updated, Basic Economics has also become more internationalized by including economic problems from more countries around the world,...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0451217322 |
In his classic, provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung-one of psychiatry's greatest minds-argues that the future depends on our ability to resist society's mass movements. Only by understanding our unconscious inner nature-"the undiscovered self"-can we gain the self-knowledge that is antithetical...
| Author | W.G. Sebald |
| ISBN | 0099448882 |
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
Written with...
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
| Author | David A. Sinclair |
| ISBN | 1501191977 |
It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold...
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
| Author | Safi Bahcall |
| ISBN | 1250185963 |
*Wall Street Journal bestseller
*Next Big Idea Club selection--chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season"
*Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019"
*Inc.com's "10 Business...
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
| Author | Christopher Wylie |
| ISBN | 1984854631 |
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.
Mindf*ck...
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
| Author | Baltasar Gracián |
| ISBN | 0385421311 |
This book wasn't quite what I expected, yet it was still a good experience. If you have - or will - read Machiavelli's "The Prince", Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War" and/or Castiglione's "The Book Of The Courtier", this is another good book to this type of books. There's is also some certainty that the author read...
