Vom Wesen der Wahrheit
8 best books like Vom Wesen der Wahrheit (Martin Heidegger): Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, The Essays, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7, Parmenides of Elea: Fragments, The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience; the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli)...
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
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| Author | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN | 0140432167 |
Bacon, an Elizabethan legal and government counselor and a scholar, wrote these enduring essays at the tail end of the 16th century. So of what practical use could they possibly be now at the start of the 21st century? From his essay “On Unity” there is this observation, “But it is greater blasphemy...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486281221 |
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521599628 |
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
| Author | Joanna Faber |
| ISBN | 1501131656 |
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”
For over thirty-five years,...
| Author | Parmenides |
| ISBN | 0802069088 |
David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding...
The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master
Universally applicable statements are not instructive. They do not inspire thought or care, but enable the continuation of ignorance. A man may comment 'this is the worst review ever' (and in my experience, probably will), and achieve nothing more with by it than biting his own tongue. It is not applicable...
