The Religion of Man
9 best books like The Religion of Man (Rabindranath Tagore): The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism, Spin, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Woman at Point Zero, The Thing About Luck, Kira-Kira, Blind Lake, Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0451163931 |
Part II of multi-part review series.
Reading Rand reminds me of teaching freshman composition at university years ago. There’s not nearly as many spelling errors, but Rand’s pronouncements bear all the markers of severe Dunning-Kruger effect: under-researched, un-theorized, insufficiently...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout....
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
| Author | Nawal El Saadawi |
| ISBN | 0862321107 |
“A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?”- Nawal El Saadawi, Woman...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 1416918825 |
Summer knows that kouun means good luck" in Japanese, and this year her family has had none. Just when Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, an emergency whisks her parents away to Japan, right before harvest season leaving Summer and her little brother, Jaz, in the care of their elderly grandparents,...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 0689856407 |
kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason and so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move...
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
| ISBN | 0765341603 |
At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster like aliens upon a distant planet. They can't contact the aliens in any way or understand their language. All they can do is...
| Author | Hattie Ellis |
| ISBN | 1400054060 |
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throughout history,...
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
| Author | Robert L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0062506064 |
The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-transformation. Writing within a Jungian framework, they perceive symptoms of "Boycaps per book...
