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The Liar's Club: A Memoir

The Liar's Club: A Memoir more books like this

by Mary Karr

Mary Karr's astonishingly candid--and controversial--account of her childhood and the abuses she sustained as the daughter of an alcoholic mother with a 'nervous' condition.

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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World more books like this

by A J Jacobs

Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting, and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-league education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.

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The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class

The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class more books like this

by David S Kidder, Noah D Oppenheim

This secular daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning is designed to inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year.

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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities

Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities more books like this

by Lawrence Cunningham

CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and ...

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It more books like this

by Arthur Herman

This study of Scotland's impact on civilization chronicles the transformation of Scotland after British rule, the achievements of great Scots such as Adam Smith, David Hume, and others, and the ideas of liberty that shaped the Enlightenment and the modern world.

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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier more books like this

by Thad Carhart

In expatriate Thad Carhart's fascinating memoir, he gets to know a man who repairs and sells pianos and becomes a regular at his small, eccentric shop in Paris. Then Carhart, an amateur pianist in his youth, buys a piano himself, begins taking lessons, and finds his life transformed by music, friendship, and the ineffably lovable French-ness of ...

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The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment more books like this

by Dorinda Outram

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and has continued unabated until our own times. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, on the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. Did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, ...

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The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati

The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati more books like this

by David S Kidder, Noah D Oppenheim

The latest entry in The Intellectual Devotional series dives into the complex and vital world of Western culture, covering the essential artists, works, icons, and consumer products that have defined the way individuals live and express themselves.

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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future

A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future more books like this

by Charles Van Doren

A remarkable one-volume history of the human race that interweaves all knowledge and all human achievement. This is the culmination of a lifetime's work by the former editorial director of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. This self-contained work not only provides a history of the discovery of great things, but also of concepts and ideas, placed in ...

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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia more books like this

by Dr. Orlando Figes

A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture more books like this

by Carl E Schorske

A landmark study of Habsburg Vienna in the late 19th and 20th centuries by one of the truly original scholars of our time. Photos included.

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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 more books like this

by Frederic Morton

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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet more books like this

by Ian F McNeely, Lisa Wolverton

Alighting at the pivotal points of cultural transformation, this is an exhilarating history of the key institutions that have organised knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit the authors question how history helps us understand the vast changes we are now experiencing in the landscape of knowledge. Beginning ...

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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 more books like this

by Professor Amos Elon

In this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons, and activists.

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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud more books like this

by Peter Watson

From the acclaimed author of "The Modern Mind" comes an absorbing overview of ideas synthesizing the intellectual and cultural history of Western thought.

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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s more books like this

by Otto Friedrich

This evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes "the most vivid portrait of the period yet written . . . The culture is plentiful and the gossip is spicy".--Time.

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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness more books like this

by Professor Paul Gilroy

Gilroy argues that there is a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all these at once, a Black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something until now unnamed.

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What Does China Think? more books like this

by Mark Leonard

We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We ...

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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 more books like this

by Doris May Lessing

The second volume of novelist Doris Lessing's autobiography. Born in Iran of English parents, Lessing lived in England as a small child but was eventually taken to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family and raised there. Volume 2 describes her life after she moved back to England following the publication of her first novel in 1949.

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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution more books like this

by Lisa Jardine

Tracing the discoveries of 17th-century astronomers to 20th-century geneticists, this scientific history highlights the creative roots behind scientific innovations and encourages readers to understand how these discoveries grace everyday life.

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Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western Europe Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present, Fourth Edition more books like this

by Franklin Le Van Baumer

In the quarter of a century since its first appearance, this book has remained unquestionably the leading reader in its field. The illuminating short essays that introduce sections and subsections are well known, but the continuing usefulness of any reader depends upon the quality of the selections.

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Paris: The Secret History more books like this

by Andrew Hussey

If Adam Gopnik's "Paris to the Moon" described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in the city throughout its history. Two 8-page inserts.

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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Edition (with CD-ROM) more books like this

by Lawrence S Cunningham, John J Reich

Covers Western cultures and non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature and more.

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Intellectuals more books like this

by Paul Johnson

Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles? How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends? Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht ...

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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom more books like this

by Cornel West

Offering openhearted wisdom for modern times, this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, and photographs by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Democracy Matters" includes an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry.

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