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Book Cover for: The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700, Jonardon Ganeri

The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700

Jonardon Ganeri
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A book that has changed my view of the world (not something I say often and never something I say lightly): Book recommendation of the day: The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700 by Jonardon Ganeri (Oxford, 2011)

Paperback, 2014

$53.00$28.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The Trouble with Being Born, E. M. Cioran

The Trouble with Being Born

E. M. Cioran
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“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” ― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

Paperback, 2013

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal, Martha C. Nussbaum

The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal

Martha C. Nussbaum
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@JohnTillinghast Cosmopolitanism is surely Western in origin, as Martha Nussbaum explains in her simultaneously brilliant & blinkered way in The Cosmopolitan Tradition. Liberal? Not sure. But I support Ukraine because I believe their cause is just, not because they're a liberal Western society.

Paperback, 2021

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Orwell's Roses, Rebecca Solnit

Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit
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@daniel_dsj2110 Depends. Rebecca Solnit's recent "Orwell's Roses" was very valuable and "necessary" to the extent any book is "necessary" (and forget about bad ones, the truth is that in the light of eternity very, even very few good ones are).

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems, Agha Shahid Ali

Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems

Agha Shahid Ali
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Book recommendation of the day: The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, translated by Agha Shahid Ali (The University of Massachusetts Press, 1995)

Paperback, 2003

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt
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@daniel_dsj2110 Hannah Arendt - at least the Hannah Arendt of THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM - would have agreed with him, I think.

Paperback, 2011

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Book Cover for: Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939, James P. Levy

Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936-1939

James P. Levy
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@PatPorter76 💯And maybe even try reading James Levy's Appeasement and Rearmament Britain, 1936–1939

Paperback, 2006

$38.00$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921, Antony Beevor

Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

Antony Beevor
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War review: What Antony Beevor gets wrong - New Statesman https://t.co/qFSY39pnLH

Hardcover, 2022

$38.00$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland, John McCourt

Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland

John McCourt
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⁦@JacqBetula⁩ Cormac Ó Gráda gave me this. Quite brilliant, I thought. Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland: John McCourt: Bloomsbury Academic https://t.co/IJ48DEn2UD

Hardcover, 2022

$95.00$70.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: All the Lives We Never Lived, Anuradha Roy

All the Lives We Never Lived

Anuradha Roy
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@mirakamdar @festival_livre @MirzaWaheed Sorry to miss that! Huge fan of Anuradha Roy, above all of All The Lives We Never Lived, but also of her journalism. Will it be podcast?

Paperback, 2019

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