The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction
10 best books like The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction (Michael D. Coogan): Le Colonel Chabert, Theogony / Works and Days, The Book of Tea, The World of Yesterday, A Treatise of Human Nature, The Song of Roland, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Metaphysics, Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 2070411184 |
Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Napoléon. Laissé pour mort sur le champ de bataille d'Eylau et ayant perdu sa mémoire, il a passé un an dans un asile. Le roman commence quand il revient à Paris, à la vie qu'il avait laisse derrière...
Theogony / Works and Days
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0192839411 |
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a...
| Author | Kakuzō Okakura |
| ISBN | 0804800693 |
Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for over a hundred years, The Book of Tea Classic Edition will enhance your enjoyment and understanding...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 0803252242 |
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....
A Treatise of Human Nature
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1406927554 |
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The...
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0140440755 |
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written...
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 1590300394 |
The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East.
The...
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
| Author | Alex Ross |
| ISBN | 0374249393 |
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 1888009039 |
I have very mixed feelings about Aristotle.
On the one hand, he's so tedious and uninspiring. This is only partially his fault: everything we have of his are lecture notes, and so it is no surprise that they are stylistically wanting. Many scholars think that Metaphysics contains many sections...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0691020361 |
This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. This book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous...
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
| Author | Jon Meacham |
| ISBN | 1400065550 |
The American Gospel-literally, the good news about America-is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid book, New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
Foreword by Patrick D. Miller
In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional...
| Author | M.L. West |
| ISBN | 0192836781 |
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of...
| Author | Michael Lynch |
| ISBN | 0712698930 |
From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change.
Michael...
| Author | Marguerite Porete |
| ISBN | 0809134276 |
I didn't think I would "like" this book, and thats really not why I read it. I read it because of one line in "World Without End" which referenced it. And yes, I am so neurotic, I had to read it just to "get" that one reference. Its translated to English, which doesn't mean I understood it. Not at all. Sometimes...
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 1508238332 |
From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.
Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion...
Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law
| Author | James George Frazer |
القراءة الأولى لنصوص فريزر العظيم، جزء واحد من ثلاثة أجزاء، وهو الكتاب الوحيد لفريز الذى وصل إلى يدىّ بعد جهد.
دراسة مقارنة بين أساطير العبريين التى صيغت...
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1506706665 |
The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and...
Защита от темных искусств. Путеводитель по миру паранормальных явлений
Наука и мистика. Чего и почему мы боимся и как в наших домах завелись домовые.
Новая книга от автора бестселлера "Сумма биотехнологии", получившего...
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1883313007 |
So this is an adaptation of a film based on a book. So this is kind of a weird book.
While I enjoyed the 1992 film (questionable accents from some actors aside), it's not one that I'd necessarily want to see adapted into a comic, it was only Mike Mignola's art that got this on my list. Of course the guy...
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
| Author | Guy Leschziner |
| ISBN | 1250202701 |
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations...
The Summa Theologiae Of St. Thomas Aquinas: Latin-English Edition, Prima Pars, Q. 1-64
| Author | Thomas Aquinas |
| ISBN | 1440484988 |
The Summa Theologiæ of Saint Thomas Aquinas is a work that has held a place of prominence in the disciplines of theology and philosophy since the time of St. Thomas himself. It was written when Latin was the language of scholarship, a common tongue that crossed Europe's volatile political boundaries...
The Torah of Music: Reflections on a Tradition of Singing and Song
| Author | Joey Weisenberg |
| ISBN | 1946611026 |
"Music is the soul's native language: a prayer, a divine ladder upon which we climb between the Earth and the Heavens. But music also reaches horizontally across our social fractures and dogmas and connect us one with the other. Just as it cuts the nonsense away from our hearts, music opens our ears so...
Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi
Aceasta este cartea. Este povestea unei femei bolnave de cancer și a fiului ei, care ajung într-un sat din Franța și își petrec acolo ultima vară. Nu am încercat să înmoi cuvintele. N-am compus scene inutile și nu am inventat adevăruri universale. Am încercat să fiu sinceră și să mă...
Psychopolitik: Neoliberalismus und die neuen Machttechniken
| Author | Byung-Chul Han |
| ISBN | 3100022033 |
Nach seinem Bestseller "Müdigkeitsgesellschaft" führt der Berliner Philosoph Byung-Chul Han seine Kritik am Neoliberalismus leidenschaftlich fort. Pointiert legt er die Herrschafts- und Machttechnik des neoliberalen Regimes dar, die im Gegensatz zu Foucaults Biopolitik die Psyche als...
Charles Dickens: An Introduction
| Author | Jenny Hartley |
| ISBN | 0198788169 |
Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His characters have such vitality...
| Author | Sofka Zinovieff |
| ISBN | 0062847597 |
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.
A rising star in the London arts scene of...
| Author | Jean Brun |
| ISBN | 2130440444 |
Socrate est souvent qualifié de « père de la philosophie », car il est l'un des premiers à se détourner de l'étude de la nature et à insister pour que la réflexion philosophique s'intéresse désormais exclusivement aux « affaires humaines ». N'ayant laissé aucun écrit, on a longtemps...
| Author | Darian Leader |
| ISBN | 0241984432 |
From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more
'Persuasive, absorbing and refreshingly sane... [A] bracing and important intervention in the debate... Leader...
