The Ruins of Empires
7 best books like The Ruins of Empires (Constantin-François Volney): The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, We Live in Water, The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans, Raja-Yoga, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece, Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0553380966 |
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes...
| Author | Jess Walter |
| ISBN | 0061926620 |
We Live in Water is a darkly comic, moving collection of short stories that veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This...
The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
| Author | Wumen Huikai |
| ISBN | 0861713826 |
In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments...
Clinging to books only degenerates the human mind.
Swami Vivekananda was, among other things, one of the great grandfathers of hippiedom. I say this because he was a key figure in the introduction of Hinduism into the West.
Vivekananda arrived at an opportune moment. Nietzsche had...
Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
| Author | Three Initiates |
| ISBN | 0911662251 |
This stands as one of the most important books I've read about the nature of reality and the supersensible universe. As with any work intending to teach through words something that is larger and exponentially more complex than language will always require careful study. And though this book is not...
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems
| Author | Michael Maier |
| ISBN | 0892540605 |
Michael Maier was a 17th-century alchemist and physician to the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Between 1614 and his death in 1622, Maier published a number of alchemical works, of which Atalanta Fugiens was undoubtedly the richest and most important. First published in 1617, it is one of the finest...
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition...
