The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959

5 best books like The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959 (Bertrand Russell): Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, The Invention of Morel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Author	David Eagleman
ISBN	0307377342

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In...

The Invention of Morel

Author	Adolfo Bioy Casares
ISBN	1590170571

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Author	Michel Foucault
ISBN	0679752552

This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Author	Will Durant
ISBN	0671739166

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...

How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life

Author	Melissa Hellstern
ISBN	0525948236

A rare glimpse into the woman behind the mystique and the definitive guide to living genuinely with glamour and grace.

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering--because you...