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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLetters to a Young Contrarian
Christopher Hitchens · 141 pages
What's Wrong With the World
G.K. Chesterton · 176 pages
I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning. And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it)
TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (New Autonomy)
Hakim Bey, Peter Lamborn Wilson · 153 pages
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
Amin Maalouf · 176 pages
Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley · 155 pages
In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy s
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde · 65 pages
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Ayn Rand · 290 pages
In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd. In Return Of The Primitive (originally publis
Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau, William Rossi · 672 pages
In addition to the texts of 'Walden' and 'Civil Disobedience', this revised and expanded 'Norton Critical Edition' reprints the increasingly important works 'Slavery in Massachusetts', 'Walking' and 'Wild Apples'. All texts are accompanied by annotations.
Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
Albert Camus · 271 pages
Essays selected by the author from his Actuelles.
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Windsor Mann · 332 pages
Between Past and Future
Hannah Arendt · 298 pages
Essays examining the effect on political and social thought of the western world's break with the Graeco-Roman tradition.
If The War Goes On: Reflections On War And Politics
Hermann Hesse · 160 pages
A collection of essays from Hermann Hesse concerning World War II, his personal anguish and his antagonism to racism, nationalism and war.
Ideas and Opinions
Albert Einstein · 377 pages
Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
Max Weber, H.H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills · 512 pages
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Thomas Paine · 416 pages
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke · 552 pages
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Bertrand Russell · 176 pages
This is a collection of essays by Bertrand Russell first published in 1935. In the 1932 essay which gives the title to the volume, Russell propose people work for a maximum of 4 hours-per-day to think, socialise, etc. Other essays treat about sociology, philosophy and economy and also technical architectural problems are discussed in a social frame proposing solutions. **CONTENTS (original edit
Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World
Michel Houellebecq, Bernard-Henri Levy · 309 pages
In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. In their inimitably confrontational correspondence, they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame and even - naturally - themselves. This title features their letters.
Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf · 280 pages
In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment for professional women) the author proposes that "the daughters of educated men" unite in opposition to man-made war.
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau · 188 pages