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  • Karl Marx in America
    Karl Marx in America
    Hartman, Andrew
    The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life.To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the impr...

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  • Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
    Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
    Samuelson, Scott
    A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the vita beata—the good life. Philosopher Scott Samuelson offers a thinker’s tour of the Eternal City, rooting ideas from this phil...

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  • Pocket Epicurean, The
    Pocket Epicurean, The
    Sellars, John
    A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus came to his own conclusion: all we really want in life is pleasure. Though today we tend to associate the word "Epicurean" with indulgence in the form o...

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  • Pocket Stoic, The
    Pocket Stoic, The
    Sellars, John
    To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very different and distant time: Stoicism. Today, more than 100,000 people are members of online communities for modern Stoics, and there are annual conferences, meet-ups, and workshops for...

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  • Love and Saint Augustine
    Love and Saint Augustine
    Arendt, Hannah / Vecchiarelli Scott, Joanna (editor) / Chelius Stark, Judith (editor)
    Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New Yor...

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  • Citizen Brown
    Citizen Brown
    Gordon, Colin

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  • Notes and Methods
    Notes and Methods
    Af Klint, Hilma

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  • Hilma AF Klint
    Hilma AF Klint
    Voss, Julia

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  • Practical Botany for Gardeners
    Practical Botany for Gardeners
    Hodge, Geoff
    Gardening can be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy. Fickle plants make seemingly spontaneous decisions to bloom or bust, seeds sprout magically in the blink of an eye, and deep-rooted mysteries unfold underground and out of sight. Understanding basic botany is like unlocking a horticultural code; fortunately learning a little science can reveal the secrets of the botanical univ...

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  • On the Heights of Despair
    On the Heights of Despair
    Cioran, E M

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  • Bridge on the Drina, The
    Bridge on the Drina, The
    Andric, Ivo
    The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. "No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman hist...

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  • Aeneid, The
    Aeneid, The
    Virgil
    This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry's life: a complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius, rendering Virgil's formal, metrical lines i...

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  • Subversive Simone Weil, The
    Subversive Simone Weil, The
    Zaretsky, Robert
    Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycee students and organized union workers, fought alongside anarchists during the Spanish Civil War and labored...

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  • Vivian Maier
    Vivian Maier
    Bannos, Pamela
    Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently d...

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