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The outsider
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Colin Wilson |
The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956.
Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Alb… |
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Homo Ludens
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Johan Huizinga |
A unique philosophical perspective regarding the topic of play and it's impact and necessity in human culture. |
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Big history and the future of humanity
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Fred Spier |
""Big History" places the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. In doing so, the emerging field of historical study provides us with an overview of the known past in its… |
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In search of civilization
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John Armstrong |
"In this provocative 'cri de coeur,' the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness. 'Civilization' once refer… |
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Beyond civilization
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Daniel Quinn |
In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoe… |
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Dark age ahead
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Jane Jacobs |
Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and … |
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