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9 best books like Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions From Great Philosophers (Leszek Kołakowski): An Orchestra of Minorities, Akin, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True, Yoga: Your Home Practice Companion, Japanese Fairy Tales, Quién de nosotros

An Orchestra of Minorities

Author	Chigozie Obioma
ISBN	0316412392

A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.

A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...

Akin

Author	Emma Donoghue
ISBN	0316491993

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0670025852

A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should...

Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

Author	Wednesday Martin
ISBN	0316463612

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex.

What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have in common with nomadic...

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Author	Richard Dawkins
ISBN	1439192812

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods’ bridge to earth....

Yoga: Your Home Practice Companion

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0756657296

Yoga Mind and Body has garnered much praise from senior Sivananda yoga teachers worldwide, and this new book retains all the features that made the existing book so successful - clear instructions on each pose demonstrated step by step, common mistakes shown and explained, and a list of the physical...

Japanese Fairy Tales

Author	Yei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN	4805308818

Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...

Quién de nosotros

Author	Mario Benedetti
ISBN	9707100257

Quem de nós - Dividido em três partes, Quem de nós retrata o triângulo amoroso entre Miguel, Alicia e Lucas. Em "Miguel", o leitor é testemunha da vida conjugal de Alicia e Miguel, e assiste à sua separação. Na segunda parte, a narrativa adquire a forma epistolar, e Alicia explica ao ex-marido...