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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
'Moet u zich eens voorstellen wat voor boek een kapelaan van de duivel zou kunnen schrijven over de onhandige, verspillende, blunderende en gruwelijk gemene werken van de natuur.' Dit schreef Darwin in 1856 aan een vriend. Maar, hoe gruwelijk en onhandig ook, willekeurig zijn de evolutionaire processen allerminst, zo laat Richard Dawkins zien in zijn even nuchtere als helder onderbouwde werk. Ka
For the Time Being
Annie Dillard · 205 pages
Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Jay Allison, Dan Gediman · 291 pages
Presents essays expressing the core principles that guide the lives of 89 different people, some famous, some not, including politicians, nurses, artists, athletes, parents, students and more.
The Archaic Revival
Terence McKenna · 276 pages
In these essays, interviews, and narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche and the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past and future.
The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
C.S. Lewis · 113 pages
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Walker Percy · 428 pages
Heretics
G.K. Chesterton · 160 pages
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George B
Like the Flowing River
Paulo Coelho · 272 pages
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
N.D. Wilson · 224 pages
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Windsor Mann · 332 pages
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Bertrand Russell · 245 pages
Essays and Lectures
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1,321 pages
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone
Satan Speaks!
Anton Szandor LaVey, Blanche Barton, Marilyn Manson · 179 pages
This is It & Other Essays on Zen & Spiritual Experience
Alan W. Watts · 158 pages
Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley · 95 pages
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung · 244 pages
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte · 245 pages
With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life. Beginning with Alone and closing with Work, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on the inevitable vicissitudes of life: pain and joy, ho
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
Thomas Lynch · 256 pages
"Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live.". "The essays assembled here explore the human condition at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by mergers and acquisitions, numbed by math and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and ti
Why I Am An Atheist
Bhagat Singh · 30 pages
Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell · 276 pages
Includes material on "the buffalo-gods, Quetzalcoatls, Buddhas, fairy queens and other such figures."
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Yoshida Kenko · 64 pages
Waiting for God
Simone Weil · 208 pages
"Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Wa
Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Thomas Merton · 142 pages
Collection of essays about complex Asian concepts with a Western directness. Merton believed that there must be a little of Zen in all authentic creative and spiritual experience and the Study of Zen, then, is not a study of doctrine, still less a polemic about ultimate religious principles, it is simply an attempt to reach the ground of pure, direct experience which underlies all creative thought