The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction

7 best books like The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction (John Phillips): The Colorado Kid, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Zen: The Art of Simple Living, These Truths: A History of the United States

The Colorado Kid

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	0843955848

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling...

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Author	Noam Chomsky
ISBN	0375714499

An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agendas of knowledge and, therefore, belief. Contrary to the popular conception of members of the press as hard-bitten realists doggedly pursuing unpopular truths,...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Author	Shunryu Suzuki
ISBN	0834800799

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...

Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction

Author	John Monaghan
ISBN	0192853465

"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology with abundant...

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Author	Austin Kleon
ISBN	1523506644

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...

Zen: The Art of Simple Living

Author

Shunmyō Masuno

Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . .

In clear, practical and easy to follow lessons - one a day for 100 days - renowned Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno draws on centuries of wisdom to show you how to apply the essence of Zen to modern life.

You will learn how to exhale deeply...

These Truths: A History of the United States

Author	Jill Lepore
ISBN	0393357422

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three...