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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.
A 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
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 78 pages
The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Windsor Mann · 332 pages
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard · 177 pages
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.
The Weight of Glory
C.S. Lewis · 66 pages
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity. from Amazon.com
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Flannery O'Connor · 237 pages
The essays and articles in this volume are concerned mainly with the art of fiction--its quality, in regional writing; its nature and its aims; and its relatino to the writer's religion.
Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays
Walker Percy · 428 pages
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.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung · 244 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
Why I Am An Atheist
Bhagat Singh · 30 pages
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
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
Paul Kingsnorth · 366 pages
Like the Flowing River
Paulo Coelho · 272 pages
Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley · 95 pages
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Yoshida Kenko · 64 pages
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
Clifford Geertz · 470 pages
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.
American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
Dan Savage · 302 pages
The sex-advice columnist for "Savage Love" draws on his experience with the It Gets Better campaign to share pithy insights into a range of topics including health care, gun control, and marriage equality.
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 129 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m
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
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott · 320 pages
The Will to Believe, Human Immortality and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James · 402 pages