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..Title: In the Hand of Dante *read more/buy*
..Author: Nick Tosches
..Pages: 377 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 11,458
..Summary: "Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of "The Divine Comedy," written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize. For this writer, the temptation is too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance bid to have it all. As this dark and twisted journey unfolds, so too does a parallel tale: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man trying to weave a poem that contains the sum of the world's wisdom and the very breath of the divine."
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..Title: The Last Opium Den *read more/buy*
..Author: Nick Tosches
..Pages: 74 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 33,329
..Summary: "Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss. Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand to Cambodia, he hunts the Big Smoke, bewildered by its elusiveness and, despite the meaning it continues to evoke as a cultural touchstone, its alleged extinction. Weaving his spiritual and hallucinogenic quests together with inimitable, razor-sharp prose, Tosches's trip becomes a deeper meditation on what true fulfillment is and why no one bothers to look for it any more. "
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..Title: The Fuck-Up *read more/buy*
..Author: Arthur Nersesian
..Pages: 296 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 17,944
..Summary: "Okay, the narrator really is a fuck-up. Barely employed as an usher at a Village cinema, he falls for a colleague who seems dewily innocent even as he continues dumping his dirty clothes on girlfriend Sarah's floor. Then all in one day he loses his job, his chance for new love, and Sarah herself and winds up sleeping on the coach of a friend who's probably even more of a fuck-up than he is. From here he moves swiftly through trying to score, trying to keep his job at a porno theater by pretending that he's gay, and somehow getting himself involved in a robbery. "
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..Title: The Books That Changed The World *read more/buy*
..Author: Robert Bingham Downs
..Pages: 352 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 82,953
..Summary: "The text provides a glimpse into the events that shaped these thinkers' lives, as well as the ideas that have left their indelible print on the world stage. Whether one wants to know how Aristotle's thoughts are still germane to us millennia later or understand how Freudian psychology affects our everyday behavior, this timeless text will enlighten, edify, and enrich all who take the time to peruse its pages. "
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..Title: Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin *read more/buy*
..Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
..Pages: 438 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 496,375
..Summary: "A rich and comprehensive guide to one of the most lasting forms in art, and a highly entertaining ride through three centuries of culture high and low, from Goya and Dali, to David Lynch and The Cure"
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..Title: Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations *read more/buy*
..Author: George Grant & Karen Grant
..Pages: 221 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 43,045
..Summary: "The authors explore the odd culture of books and the enormous impact reading has had--and will continue to have--on the lives of men and women, the course of nations, and the enrichment of life everywhere it exists."
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..Title: A Grief Observed *read more/buy*
..Author: C. S. Lewis
..Pages: 112 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 17,059
..Summary: "Written in moments of sadness and longing after his wife's death, C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed is an honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith. This elegant trade paperback edition of Lewis's classic summons those who grieve to honest mourning and courageous hope."
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..Title: The Anti-Christ *read more/buy*
..Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
..Pages: 108 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 3,768
..Summary: "In truth, the Anti-Christ is as necessary to the completeness of the whole of Nietzsche's system as the keystone is to the arch. All the curves of his speculation lead up to it. What he flung himself against, from the beginning to the end of his days of writing, was always, in the last analysis, Christianity."
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..Title: Thus Spoke Zarathustra *read more/buy*
..Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
..Pages: 327 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 53,462
..Summary: "A landmark work of philosophy and literature, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the fullest expression of Nietzsche's belief that 'the object of mankind should lie in its highest individuals.' In his thirtieth year Zarathustra--the archetypal Ubermensch representative of supremem passion and creativity--abandons his home for the mountains, where he lives, literally and figuratively, on a level of experience far above the conventional standards of good and evil. The exuberant, poetic testimony of Nietzsche's great nessianic hero (and alter ego) is a vivid demonstration of the philosopher's genius. Walter Kaufmann's celebrated translation--hailed by Newsweek for its 'incandescent splendor of language'--has gained general recognition as the most authoritative version of Zarathustra existing in English."
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..Title: Diary of a Seducer *read more/buy*
..Author: Soren Kierkegaard
..Pages: 240 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 510,343
..Summary: "Kierkegaard's renowned excursion into literature is the gripping narrative of a man who explores his own sense of detachment by deliberately arousing the passion of a young society girl whom he first sees fleetingly across the street form him. Since it was first published over 150 years ago, The Diary of a Seducer has been the grist for many a philosopher and critic's mill. "
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..Title: The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard: Number 6 *read more/buy*
..Author: Soren Kierkegaard
..Pages: 245 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 153,180
..Summary: "The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings--made by the great English poet W. H. Auden--is a perfect introduction to his work. Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote."
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..Title: Mere Christianity *read more/buy*
..Author: C. S. Lewis
..Pages: 256 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 918
..Summary/Quotes: "(3) The Christian Way.--The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. if I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. I fnone of my earthy pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures wer enever meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life ot press on to that other country and help others to do the same.'"
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..Title: The Screwtape Letters *read more/buy*
..Author: C. S. Lewis
..Pages: 224 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 1,003
..Summary: "Who among us has never wondered if there might not really be a tempter sitting on our shoulders or dogging our steps? C.S. Lewis dispels all doubts. In The Screwtape Letters, one of his bestselling works, we are made privy to the instructional correspondence between a senior demon, Screwtape, and his wannabe diabolical nephew Wormwood. As mentor, Screwtape coaches Wormwood in the finer points, tempting his "patient" away from God."
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..Title: Zero *read more/buy*
..Author: Charles Seife
..Pages: 256 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 4,518
..Summary: "Why did the Church reject the use of zero? How did mystics of all stripes get bent out of shape over it? Is it true that science as we know it depends on this mysterious round digit? Zero opens up these questions and lets us explore the answers and their ramifications for our oh-so-modern lives. Seife has fun with his format, too, starting with chapter 0 and finishing with an appendix titled "Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine." (Warning: don't get your hopes up too much.) There are enough graphs and equations to scare off serious numerophobes, but the real story is in the interactions between artists, scientists, mathematicians, religious and political leaders, and the rest of us--it seems we really do have nothing in common."
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..Title: Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us *read more/buy*
..Author: Robert D Hare, PhD
..Pages: 236 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking:
..Summary: "...Hare vividly describes a world of con artists, hustlers, rapists, and other predators who charm, lie, and manipulate their way through life. Are psychopaths mad, or simply bad? How can they be recognized? And how can we protect ourselves? This book provides the solid information and surprising insights for anyone seeking to understanding this devastating condition.
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..Title: When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success *read more/buy*
..Author: Carol Hyatt, Linda Gottlieb
..Pages: 248 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 106,677
..Summary: "Offering sound advice on everything from grappling with the money issue to taking the first step toward a new career, this reassuring, practical guide tells how to bounce back from career failure and seize the day."
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..Title: Worry *read more/buy*
..Author: Edward M Hallowell
..Pages: 352 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 27,160
..Summary: "Worry offers an articulate and powerful reframe of a debilitating condition that's as old as the human brain. By releasing the deeply entrenched habit of negativity, a worrier can step out of the cycle, and freed from phobia, move ahead."
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..Title: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society *read more/buy*
..Author: Dave Grossman
..Pages: 366 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 2,542
..Summary: "A book that requires some steely fortitude to finish, but once done, On Killing delivers insights on human nature that are both gratifying and repelling."
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..Title: Speaking with the Devil *read more/buy*
..Author: Carl Goldberg
..Pages: 287 (paperback)
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..Summary: "What distinguishes the disturbed from the truly evil? Is malevolent behavior something more than criminal behavior? Eminent psychologist Carl Goldberg attempts to answer these questions as he examines malevolence in our society. Drawing on revealing case studies, Goldberg provides a cultural and historical overview of the diabolical personality and its destructive presence in our world."
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