To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
10 best books like To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility (Jonathan Sacks): The Map That Changed the World, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Diary of a Bad Year, The First Circle, The Lonely Man of Faith, Development as Freedom, Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, My Uncle Oswald, The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
The Map That Changed the World
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0060931809 |
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible,...
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0486434141 |
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry...
| Author | J.M. Coetzee |
| ISBN | 0670018759 |
J. M. Coetzee may just be the only living contemporary writer that actually gets better & better with age. (An anomaly if there ever was one...). Against the very paradigms that cemented him as a worthy premiere multi-award recipient celebrity writer in the first place, Coetzee is an astonishing...
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
| ISBN | 0810115905 |
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.
At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor...
| Author | Joseph B. Soloveitchik |
| ISBN | 0385514085 |
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as “The Rav” by his followers worldwide, was a leading authority on the meaning of Jewish law and prominent force in building bridges between traditional Orthodox Judaism and the modern world. In The Lonely Man of Faith, a soaring, eloquent essay first published...
| Author | Amartya Sen |
| ISBN | 0385720270 |
By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development—for both rich and poor—in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life...
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
| Author | Milan Kundera |
| ISBN | 0060932147 |
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0140055770 |
Uncle Oswald is, if you remember, the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. Here, many famous names are mentioned and there is obviously a grave risk that families and friends are going to take offence... Uncle Oswald discovers the electrifying properties of...
| Author | Fritjof Capra |
| ISBN | 0385494726 |
Fritjof Capra, bestselling author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life, here explores another frontier in the human significance of scientific ideas—applying complexity theory to large-scale social interaction.
In the 1980s, complexity theory emerged as a powerful alternative...
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 0375725342 |
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything...
| Author | John Ralston Saul |
| ISBN | 0670888826 |
What does John Ralston Saul's influential philosophical trilogy Voltaire's Bastards, The Doubter's Companion and The Unconscious Civilization mean for the real lives of individuals? Is it possible to apply his groundbreaking theories to everyday life?
On Equilibrium presents us with...
Our Longest Days: A people's history of the Second World War
| Author | Sandra Koa Wing |
| ISBN | 1846680883 |
For six years the people of Britain endured bombs and the threat of invasion, and more than 140,000 civilians were killed or seriously wounded. Men and women were called to serve in the armed forces in record numbers, and everyone experienced air raids and rationing. In these terrible times, volunteers...
| Author | Timothy Elliott |
| ISBN | 1743537891 |
"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open." Benjamin Law
Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me...
Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional...
The Brotherhood of Book Hunters
| Author | Raphaël Jerusalmy |
| ISBN | 1609452305 |
The poet François Villon has been condemned to death by Louis XI, and to escape execution, he enters into a questionable relationship with a bishop in the pay of Louis XI. All Villon has to do to earn his freedom is to convince a printer and bookseller to move from Mayence to Paris, telling him that by doing...
| Author | Shaun Tan |
| ISBN | 1742372929 |
Eric, Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1974) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include The Red Tree and The Arrival. Eric is...
| Author | David Robinson |
| ISBN | 2841146235 |
Auteur, scénariste, musicien, cinéaste, producteur, Charlie Chaplin a incarné le cinéma pour des millions de spectateurs pendant plusieurs générations. Avec son talent de mime, son sens de l'observation, sa silhouette et sa moustache devenues archétypiques, Charlot est l'un des plus...
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?
Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively...
