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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

10 best books like William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Robert D. Richardson Jr.): The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, The Innocence of Father Brown, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, How the Mind Works, The Metaphysical Club, The Principles of Psychology, Vol 1, The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Freud: A Life for Our Time, Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN0765386518
When a student from the Ulthar Women's College goes missing with her dreaming lover, Vellitt Boe journeys across the dreamlands to find a way to the waking world to bring her back. With a cat in tow, will Vellitt be able to find Clarie Jurat?

Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
The Innocence of Father Brown
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0809592533
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching...
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
AuthorDavid Eagleman
ISBN0307377334
Let me start with the easy stuff. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book.

Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. This book is deceptive. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style....
How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
The Metaphysical Club
AuthorLouis Menand
ISBN0007126905
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist...
The Principles of Psychology, Vol 1
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486203816
This is the first inexpensive edition of the complete Long Course in Principles of Psychology, one of the great classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America’s most important philosopher. As such, it should not be confused with the many abridgements...
The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
AuthorDaniel C. Matt
ISBN0062511637
I first read this book several years ago for a course I took while working on my master’s degree. As I decided to incorporate weekly meditations in my world religion course, I wanted to revisit some of the mystical writings of each tradition I cover. This is mostly selections of Kabbalistic writings,...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0140437487
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
Freud: A Life for Our Time
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393328619
Brilliant biography of Freud (probably the best since Ernest Jones’s three v. effort). Heavy emphasis on ideas, especially within the nineteenth century context (both bourgeois Vienna & 19th c. scientific -- e.g., Darwin & physiological school). Treats the psychoanalytic movement,...
Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0877288550
To most people, the very word Kabbalah implies the mystical experience par excellence, but most modern books about this subject shed very little light into its ancient mystical and magical aspects. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has therefore translated the Sefer Yetzirah the oldest and most mysterious of all...
Platform
AuthorMichel Houellebecq
ISBN1400030269
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.

In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as...
Psychology: The Briefer Course
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486416046
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.

To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486202917
The work of William James contributed greatly to the burgeoning fields of psychology, particularly in the areas of education, religion, mysticism and pragmatism. The brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James, William wrote several powerful essays expressing his ideas on the pragmatic...
Pragmatism and Other Writings
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0140437355
The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the...
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
AuthorRichard V. Reeves
ISBN1843546434
The definitive life of John Stuart Mill, one of the heroic giants of Victorian England
 
Richard Reeves' sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker, and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of action—a philosopher and radical MP...
The Freud Reader
AuthorSigmund Freud
ISBN0393314030
The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.

What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore...
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
AuthorJulia Strachey
ISBN1903155274
This was absolute rubbish. Wicked too. The story was that although her wedding was but a few hours off, the bride couldn't make up her mind whether she should get married or run off with a previous lover, a dithering sort of person whose job took him on great adventures abroad. He had just turned up again...
Синдром Петрушки
AuthorDina Rubina
Дина Рубина совершила невозможное - соединила три разных жанра: увлекательный и одновременно почти готический роман о куклах и кукольниках, стягивающий...
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
AuthorJoe Moran
ISBN0241978491
'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences ... Any writer should read it' Bee Wilson

'Thoughtful, engaging, and lively ... when you've read it, you realise you've changed your attitude to writing (and reading)' John Simpson, formerly Chief...
Mars is Heaven
AuthorRay Bradbury
One of the classic tales of early science fiction.
Although for our generations (and future ones!) some of the things might seem anachronistic and, although from time to time the storytelling style shows its age, "Mars is Heaven!" is still a great read and I would recommend it to non science fiction/fantasy...
Everest
AuthorS.L. Scott
Six foot three. Dynamic green eyes. Utterly irresistible.

Ethan Everest stole my breath the first time I saw him. He romanced me with skill, dazzled me with his charisma, and proceeded to steal my heart right after.

I might have fallen for his easy-going smile the first time we met,...
ზოგადი ფსიქოლოგია
Authorუზნაძე, დიმიტრი
წინამდებარე წიგნი ზოგადი ფსიქოლოგიის ყველა ძირითად პრობლემას ეხება და შეიძლება იგი ჩვენს უმაღლეს...
Makhatma Gandi
AuthorAleksandr V. Gorev
ISBN5713300536
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The Beatles
AuthorPaul Shipton
ISBN0582512484
The sense of modernism that does not pay attention of what you believe. I liked that every song has its own story.
I do not like the way they were as a band. It feels like a 4-divided-parts picutre. Before reading the book I liked more John Lennon as many have said, he is the core of the beatles. At the end,...
Homo Sapiens
Authorლადო ქარჩავა
ეს წიგნი მათთვისაა, ვისაც აზროვნება უყვარს. ცხადია, მათთვისაც, ვისაც, უბრალოდ, ლიტერატურა უყვარს -
თავისი...
Renaissance Essays
AuthorHugh Trevor-Roper
ISBN0226812278
Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper...
გზაზე ერთი კაცი მიდიოდა 1
AuthorOtar Chiladze
ოთარ ჭილაძე არის მეოცე საუკუნის ქართული ლიტერატურის ღმერთი, სრული პასუხისმგებლობით ვამბობ. მისი ექვსივე...
ეძიე ვარსკვლავი შენი
AuthorMzia Khositashvili
ISBN4703010600
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Astounding Science Fiction Stories: An Anthology of 350 Scifi Stories (Halcyon Classics)
AuthorVarious
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES is a collection of 350 scifi stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Here you'll find stories by more than 100 authors, including works by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Edmond Hamilton, Paul...
The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Stories
AuthorRobert Silverberg
The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack presents a terrific mix of science fiction stories, new and old, including a Hugo Award-winning story by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a Hugo Award nominee from Mike Resnick, and classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Almost 700 pages of great...
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