The Faber Book of Utopias
10 best books like The Faber Book of Utopias (John Carey): Gog, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening, Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World, El 19 de Marzo y el 2 de Mayo, The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, Decline Fall: Diaries 2005-2010
20. yüzyılın ilk yarısının en tartışmalı yazınsal kişiliklerinden biri olan Giovanni Papini (1881-1956), Gog'da yarattığı saf, cahil ama bir yandan da dünyada olup bitenin nedenini arayan Amerikalı milyarder tipi aracılığıyla olağandışı bir portreler galerisi...
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
| Author | André Comte-Sponville |
| ISBN | 0670018473 |
The perfect antidote to the fiery rhetoric that dominates our current national debate over religion, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality is the ideal companion to such bestsellers as The God Delusion and God Is Not Great. In this inspiring book, bestselling author and philosopher André Comte-Sponville...
| Author | Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri |
| ISBN | 0143107488 |
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30 volumes--here abridged to one volume, and translated...
| Author | Daniel Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1402749996 |
In the nearly 30 years since the accident that made radio personality and columnist Dan Gottlieb a quadriplegic, he developed a finely-tuned quality of awareness that most people never achieve: he became an outsider among us—”like a foreign correspondent,” as he puts it. From that vantage...
I have read this book dozens of times. So glad it is now available electronically and I can always have it with me.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is a great collection of stories, thoughts, penses and ideas. It is a book in the great Jewish wisdom tradition. Jacob is a baker, and each day on his...
| Author | Benito Pérez Galdós |
El 19 de Marzo y el 2 de Mayo es la tercera novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Continúa con la historia del joven gaditano Gabriel de Araceli, quien es también protagonista de los dos anteriores episodios, La Corte de Carlos IV y Trafalgar. La vida de Gabriel...
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years.
This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense,...
Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
| Author | Gary Lachman |
| ISBN | 0971394237 |
How did a decade of love and peace end in Altamont and the Manson Family bloodbath? Gary Lachman explores the sinister dalliance of rock’s high rollers and a new wave of occultists, tying together John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Mick Jagger, Brian Wilson, Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, Jim Morrison, L....
| Author | Hayden White |
| ISBN | 0801827418 |
"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number...
| Author | Chris Mullin |
| ISBN | 1846683998 |
Chris Mullin's bestselling A View From the Foothills provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Laying bare the personalities, pyrotechnics and political intrigues of the Blair years, it was described as Yes Minister meets Alan Clark.Funny and self-deprecating, the new...
| Author | Wenceslao Fernández Flórez |
| ISBN | 8475253423 |
La aldea gallega de San Salvador de Cecebre tiene una fraga cuyos habitantes son seres animados: hablan los pinos, las truchas o los gatos. El propio autor lo dice: “Este es el libro de la fraga de Cecebre”. En ella habitan un asaltador de caminos, Xan de Malvís o Fendetestas , el ánima en pena Fiz...
| Author | Rick Wartzman |
| ISBN | 1586483315 |
Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation’s number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California—the Joads’ newfound home—the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene...
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Oxford Bookworms Stage 3)
| Author | Margaret Naudi |
| ISBN | 0194791327 |
The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night... is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror... is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when...
| Author | Paul Kidd |
| ISBN | 0786916354 |
The ranger and the faerie are back
Fresh from their encounter at White Plume Mountain, the Justicar and Escalla are on the way to Hommlet. But life around a pixie is never exactly . . . stable. Escalla is drawn into the intrigues of the faerie court. Before he knows it, to save her life the Justicar is...
| Author | Claire Fox |
| ISBN | 1849549818 |
When you hear that now ubiquitous phrase "I find that offensive," you know you're being told to shut up. Social discourse is now dominated by competitive offence-claiming. But how did we become so thin-skinned? This book blames three culprits: official multiculturalism's relativistic conflation...
| Author | Paul Muldoon |
| ISBN | 0571195474 |
The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or...
| Author | Bryan Magee |
| ISBN | 0670019674 |
This book is a great introduction to Karl Popper. Bryan Magee was his friend and worthy interlocutor. I have enjoyed everything I have read of both Bryan Magee and Karl Popper.
In this "review" I am going to do something unusual and append a wonderful essay by the American humanist, Joe Barnhart,...
| Author | Theodore Dalrymple |
| ISBN | 1566637953 |
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life. In Not...
| Author | Thomas More |
| ISBN | 0192838857 |
With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful...
| Author | Fredric Jameson |
| ISBN | 1844675386 |
In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful?
Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of...
| Author | José de Espronceda |
| ISBN | 8441000522 |
Don Félix, una descarada secuela de Don Juan Tenorio, provoca que la inocente Elvira muera por haberle querido, un burdo engaño que le provoca satisfacción. Esta acción tan condenable recibirá su justo castigo.
A lo largo de 1.700 versos, Espronceda presenta un retrato increíble...
| Author | Edward James |
| ISBN | 0521016576 |
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look...
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0195074858 |
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and...
| Author | Joseph Gelinek |
| ISBN | 9506441405 |
Svet klasične muzike potresa prava revolucija kada poznati dirigent Ronald Tomas izvede na privatnom koncertu navodnu rekonstrukciju prvog stava mitske Desete simfonije Ludviga van Betovena. Jedan od gostiju na tom događaju, mladi muzikolog Danijel Panijagva, počinje da sumnja: Možda...
Edgar Allan Poe's tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear.
In 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether', 'A Predicament', 'The Angel of the Odd' and other stories, characters are caught up in macabre situations, often with horrifying results. The...
