Bakunin's bookshelf: read en-US Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:39:59 -0700 60 Bakunin's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team]]> 6369945 320 Alina Wheeler 0470401427 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.13 2003 Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
author: Alina Wheeler
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen]]> 210137279
If you use the wrong words to talk about your product, nobody will buy it. Marketers and business owners struggle to effectively connect with their customers, costing them and their companies millions in lost revenue.

In a world filled with constant, on-demand distractions, it has become near-impossible for business owners to effectively cut through the noise to reach their customers, something Donald Miller experienced first-hand and led him to create his proven system he first shared in Building a Storybrand to help you engage and truly influence customers.

The StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their companies. Without a clear, distinct message, customers will not understand what you can do for them and are unwilling to engage, causing you to lose potential sales, opportunities for customer engagement, and much more.

In Building a StoryBrand 2.0, Donald Miller teaches marketers and business owners to use his fully revised system of the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.

 

His proven process has helped thousands of companies engage with their existing customers, giving them the ultimate competitive advantage. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching

 The seven universal story points all humans respond to;

The real reason customers make purchases;How to simplify a brand message so people understand it; andHow to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. 

Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand 2.0 will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.]]> 304 Donald Miller 1400248876 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.32 2017 Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
author: Donald Miller
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> The Brand Gap 290733
• the new definition of brand
• the five essential disciplines of brand-building
• how branding is changing the dynamics of competition
• the three most powerful questions to ask about any brand
• why collaboration is the key to brand-building
• how design determines a customer’s experience
• how to test brand concepts quickly and cheaply
• the importance of managing brands from the inside
• 220-word brand glossary

From the back cover:
Not since McLuhan’s THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE has a book compressed so many ideas into so few pages. Using the visual language of the boardroom, Neumeier presents the first unified theory of branding―a set of five disciplines to help companies bridge the gap between brand strategy and customer experience. Those with a grasp of branding will be inspired by the new perspectives they find here, and those who would like to understand it better will suddenly “get it.” This deceptively simple book offers everyone in the company access to “the most powerful business tool since the spreadsheet.”]]> 194 Marty Neumeier 0321348109 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.97 2003 The Brand Gap
author: Marty Neumeier
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[Anteckningar från ett källarhål]]> 57205861 Swedish / Svenska 127 Fyodor Dostoevsky 9176451364 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.77 1864 Anteckningar från ett källarhål
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1864
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]]> In the Dark Places of Wisdom 826512
Strange evidence about a tradition of people who were mystics but who were so intensely practical that, two and a half thousand years ago, they shaped our existence and the world we live in. And yet they did this with a purpose we've completely forgotten ...

These are just two ingredients of this extraordinary book, which uncovers an astonishing reality that lies unsuspected right at the origins of the western world. Our dramatic failure to acknowledge or come to grips with that reality is what has been responsible for so much of the emptiness -- of the sense of something missing -- in our modern lives.

In the Dark Places of Wisdom  is no work of fiction. The documents, the discoveries, the people that it describes are all as real as we are. But the story it has to tell is far stranger than any fiction, because this is the story of ourselves.]]> 255 Peter Kingsley 189035001X Bakunin 0 to-read 4.10 1999 In the Dark Places of Wisdom
author: Peter Kingsley
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1999
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]]> Zhou Enlai: A Life 197877753
Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People’s Republic of China and ten as its foreign minister. He was the architect of the country’s administrative apparatus and its relationship to the world, as well as its legendary spymaster. Richard Nixon proclaimed him “the greatest statesman of our era.” Yet Zhou has always been overshadowed by Chairman Mao. Chen Jian brings Zhou into the light, offering a nuanced portrait of his complex life as a revolutionary, a master diplomat, and a man with his own vision and aspirations who did much to make China, as well as the larger world, what it is today.

Born to a declining mandarin family in 1898, Zhou received a classical education and as a teenager spent time in Japan. As a young man, driven by the desire for China’s development, Zhou embraced the communist revolution as a vehicle of China’s salvation. He helped Mao govern through a series of transformations, including the disastrous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Yet, as Chen shows, Zhou was never a committed Maoist. His extraordinary political and bureaucratic skill, combined with his centrist approaches, enabled him to mitigate the enormous damage caused by Mao’s radicalism.

When Zhou died in 1976, the PRC that we know of was not yet visible on the horizon; he never saw glistening twenty-first-century Shanghai or the broader emergence of Chinese capitalism. But it was Zhou’s work that shaped the nation whose influence and power are today felt in every corner of the globe.]]> 840 Chen Jian 0674659589 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.34 2024 Zhou Enlai: A Life
author: Chen Jian
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2024
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]]> Ficciones 426504 Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between.

Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths
Prologue
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition)
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939)
The Circular Ruins (1940)
The Lottery in Babylon (1941)
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941)
The Library of Babel (1941)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
Part Two: Artifices
Prologue
Funes the Memorious (1942)
The Form of the Sword (1942)
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944)
Death and the Compass (1942)
The Secret Miracle (1943)
Three Versions of Judas (1944)
The End (1953, 2nd edition only)
The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only)
The South (1953, 2nd edition only)]]> 174 Jorge Luis Borges 0802130305 Bakunin 0 currently-reading, fiction 4.46 1944 Ficciones
author: Jorge Luis Borges
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1944
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick]]> 318531
He was a hermit. He refused to fly and wouldn't be driven at more than thirty miles an hour. He avoided having his picture taken and was terrified of being assassinated. As a filmmaker, he was obsessed with perfection. He insisted on total control of every facet of the process. Simple scenes required one hundred takes. No wonder he made only six movies in the past thirty-five years.

But what was he really like?

For more than two years, Frederic Raphael collaborated closely with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of what was to be the director's final movie, Eyes Wide Shut. Over time, as his professional caution was replaced by a certain affection, Kubrick lowered his guard for Raphael as he never had with journalists or biographers, to reveal much about his early life in the cinema and of the reverses and humiliations he had to endure. They spoke for hours about a variety of subjects, from Julius Caesar to the Holocaust, from Kubrick's views about other directors to reminiscences of the many stars with whom both men had worked (or nearly worked)--Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, James Mason, Peter Sellers, Marisa Berenson, Sterling Hayden, Marlon Brando, and Gregory Peck.

Here, with his own distinctly cinematic style, Raphael chronicles their often fiery exchanges, capturing Kubrick's voice as no one else could. Disdaining false veneration, he opens our eyes to the mind and art of a truly complex and hitherto elusive twentieth-century genius.]]> 190 Frederic Raphael 0345437764 Bakunin 0 3.22 1999 Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick
author: Frederic Raphael
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.22
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again]]> 223927267 From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political life: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration. In Greek tragedy, the protagonist’s effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. In 2024, American politics became a Greek tragedy.

Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 bid for the White House with the stated goal of saving the nation from a second Trump presidential term. He, his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations. At his debate with Trump on June 27, 2024, the consequences of that deception were exposed to the world. It was shocking and upsetting.

Now the full, unsettling truth is being told for the first time. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson take us behind closed doors and into private conversations between the heaviest of hitters, revealing how big the problem was and how many people knew about it. From White House staffers at the highest to lowest levels, to leaders of Congress and the Cabinet, from governors to donors and Hollywood players, the truth is finally being told. What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run for reelection seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless—a desperate bet that went bust—and part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents. The story the authors tell raises fundamental issues of accountability and responsibility that will continue for decades.

The irony is that in the name of defeating what they called an existential threat to democracy, Biden and his inner circle ensured it, tossing aside his implicit promise to serve for only one term, denying the existence of health issues the nation had been watching for years, dooming the Democrats to defeat. The decision to run again, the Original Sin of this president, led to a campaign of denial and gaslighting, leading directly to Donald Trump's return to power and all that has happened as a consequence. Rarely does hubris meet nemesis more explosively. Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, Original Sin is essential reading.]]> 352 Jake Tapper Bakunin 2 biography, politics It is of course partly Bidens fault for wanting to a second term but that is not what is indicative of decline of the US. Rather it is how very few people in congress or the media tried to out Biden as this cover up was becoming clearer and clearer.
One thing I did like about the book was how the author clarified aspects of the US political structure and how older people rule congress. This is no excuse however for the cover up and the disastrous consequences for the US. ]]> 3.63 2025 Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
author: Jake Tapper
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2025
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/06/25
shelves: biography, politics
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I actually think that this is not a Greek tragedy. It is a crisis of institutions.
It is of course partly Bidens fault for wanting to a second term but that is not what is indicative of decline of the US. Rather it is how very few people in congress or the media tried to out Biden as this cover up was becoming clearer and clearer.
One thing I did like about the book was how the author clarified aspects of the US political structure and how older people rule congress. This is no excuse however for the cover up and the disastrous consequences for the US.
]]> Faith of our Fathers 17304384
]]> 26 Philip K. Dick Bakunin 0 to-read 3.77 1967 Faith of our Fathers
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1967
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]]> <![CDATA[Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History]]> 58085227
Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One’s “biography”—class status and other associations long in the past—put strict boundaries around one’s individual future. When Lea’s parents spoke of relatives going to “university” or “graduating,” they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ’90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the “free market,” Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking.

With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colorful sort—here recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the world’s most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.]]> 288 Lea Ypi 0393867730 Bakunin 4 biography, history 4.29 2021 Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
author: Lea Ypi
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/24
date added: 2025/06/24
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]]> <![CDATA[Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod]]> 195680 stories. The only translation available of this cycle of stories, this edition captures fully the spirit and vigor of his important early work for the first time.]]> 496 Nikolai Gogol 0192828800 Bakunin 3 4.21 Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod
author: Nikolai Gogol
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.21
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rating: 3
read at: 2025/06/24
date added: 2025/06/23
shelves: russian-literature, literature, humor
review:
Funny but not as good as Gogols later work. Gogols satire of establishment figures is evident here and his nostalgia for Ukraines past.
]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 43352954 Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.]]> 209 Amal El-Mohtar Bakunin 0 to-read 3.86 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Mark Twain's Autobiography. Volume 1]]> 25678248 200 Mark Twain 1772467294 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.80 2010 Mark Twain's Autobiography. Volume 1
author: Mark Twain
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.80
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)]]> 40864002 ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?]]> 151 Becky Chambers Bakunin 0 to-read 4.24 2021 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2021
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10)]]> 5367 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. Now, here are all ten novels, together in one magnificent omnibus volume. Witness the titanic battle for supremacy waged on Earth, in the Courts of Chaos, and on a magical world of mystery, adventure and romance.
--back cover]]> 1258 Roger Zelazny 0380809060 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.31 1999 The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10)
author: Roger Zelazny
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)]]> 92121 175 Roger Zelazny 0380014300 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.06 1970 Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1)
author: Roger Zelazny
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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]]> Faust 12074871
The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bakunin 5 4.23 1790 Faust
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1790
rating: 5
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]]> The Golden Ass 80081 An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats 

Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and initiates Lucius into her cult. It has long been disputed whether Apuleius meant this last-minute conversion seriously or as a final comic surprise and the challenge of interpretation continues to keep readers fascinated. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and The Golden Ass remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.
]]> 256 Apuleius 0253200369 Bakunin 0 3.89 159 The Golden Ass
author: Apuleius
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.89
book published: 159
rating: 0
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]]> Scum 400247 228 Isaac Bashevis Singer 0374529078 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.66 1956 Scum
author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1956
rating: 0
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]]> Buddha's Little Finger 76022 352 Victor Pelevin 0141002328 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.25 1996 Buddha's Little Finger
author: Victor Pelevin
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> A Thousand Acres 41193 371 Jane Smiley 1400033837 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.82 1991 A Thousand Acres
author: Jane Smiley
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine]]> 207611500 A revolutionary new offering from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, renowned psychologist and author of the global bestseller 12 Rules for Life.

In We Who Wrestle with God, Dr. Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world. In riveting detail, he analyzes the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph that stabilize, inspire, and unite us culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah; the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham’s terrible adventure; and the epic of Moses and the Israelites.  What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction?  It is time for us to understand such things, scientifically and spiritually; to become conscious of the structure of our souls and our societies; and to see ourselves and others as if for the first time.   Join Elijah as he discovers the Voice of God in the dictates of his own conscience and Jonah confronting hell itself in the belly of the whale because he failed to listen and act. Set yourself straight in intent, aim, and purpose as you begin to more deeply understand the structure of your society and your soul. Journey with Dr. Peterson through the greatest stories ever told.  Dare to wrestle with God.]]> 576 Jordan B. Peterson 0593542533 Bakunin 3 3.87 2024 We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine
author: Jordan B. Peterson
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/06/13
date added: 2025/06/13
shelves: religion, psychology, fiction, culture, myth
review:
I got about half way through it. There are some interesting intepretations but a bit too much meandering.
]]> <![CDATA[The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies]]> 11366506 392 Mahendra Ramsinghani 0470874449 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.29 2011 The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies
author: Mahendra Ramsinghani
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> Conversations in Sicily 1165806
It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo Calvino described Conversations as "the book-Guernica."

The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing seems to matter; whether he is reading newspaper posters blaring of wartime massacres, lying in bed with his wife or girlfriend, or flipping through the pages of a dictionary it is all the same to him―until he embarks on a journey back to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. In traveling through the Sicilian countryside and in variously hilarious and tragic conversations with its people―his indomitable mother in particular―he reconnects with his roots and rediscovers some basic human values.

In the introduction Hemingway wrote for the American debut of Conversations (published as In Sicily by New Directions in 1949) he remarked: "I care very much about Vittorini's ability to bring rain with him when he comes, if the earth is dry and that is what you need." More recently, American critic Donald Heiney wrote that in this one book, Vittorini "like Rabelais and Cervantes...adds a new artistic dimension to the history of literature."]]> 202 Elio Vittorini 0811214559 Bakunin 0 3.82 1941 Conversations in Sicily
author: Elio Vittorini
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1941
rating: 0
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]]> Kavalleristens anteckningar 36307287
Till skillnad från västfrontens skyttegravskrig – skildrat i exempelvis Erich Maria Remarques klassiker På västfronten intet nytt – var östfronten en mer rörlig skådeplats, om än för samma lidande och död. Gumiljovs krigsskildring förmedlar en prismatisk bild av livet i fält: de ständiga adrenalinkickarna och lägerlivets glam samsas med ögonblicksbilder av den värsta råhet och brutalitet. Kavalleristens anteckningar, som härmed för första gången utkommer på svenska, ger i sin drastiska mix av svärta och ljus en glimt av hur första världskriget kunde te sig ur en rysk soldats perspektiv.

I översättning från ryskan av Alan Asaid och med ett nyskrivet förord av historikern och författaren Peter Englund.]]> 112 Nikolay Gumilyov 9177010396 Bakunin 0 3.80 2013 Kavalleristens anteckningar
author: Nikolay Gumilyov
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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shelves: war, autobiography, russia, to-read
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]]> The Origins of Greek Thought 654710 144 Jean-Pierre Vernant 0801492939 Bakunin 0 3.89 1962 The Origins of Greek Thought
author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1962
rating: 0
read at: 2025/06/13
date added: 2025/06/13
shelves: ancient-greece, history-of-ideas, identity, liberty, non-fiction, philosophy, politics, sociology
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]]> <![CDATA[Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations]]> 33598223 The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel’s DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively. In this page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs—their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions.

Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of many current and former members of the Israeli government, including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the country’s military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world’s most feared intelligence agency), Caesarea (a “Mossad within the Mossad” that carries out attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an internal security service that implemented the largest targeted assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism).

Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel’s most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel’s targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world.]]> 784 Ronen Bergman 1400069718 Bakunin 0 4.40 2018 Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
author: Ronen Bergman
name: Bakunin
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Krig och fred Vol. 1 36329289
"Vad är krig? Frågan sysselsätter starkt Tolstoj efter hans tid i den ryska armén på 1850-talet. Erfarenheten av Rysslands erövring av Kaukasus och upplevelsen av bergsbornas partisankrig mot erövrarna lämnar aldrig Tolstoj och långt senare kommer han att skildra den i berättelsen Hadji-Murat. 1854 ber han om förflyttning till Krim och upplever det meningslösa ställningskriget mellan främmande arméer där soldaterna dör och lemlästas inte bara i strid utan också av bristande vård på usla fältsjukhus där farsoter härjar. Tolstoj blir krigskorrespondent och skildrar krigets verklighet i sina Sevastopolberättelser som utkommer parallellt med kriget.
Utan dessa krigserfarenheter hade Tolstoj knappast kunnat skildra kriget så övertygande som han gör i Krig och fred. [...]
Tolstoj är alltid starkt engagerad 'i tiden'. Jag kan inte tiga heter en stridsskrift mot dödsstraffet författad 1908. Orden kunde stå som rubrik för hela hans författarskap. Också verket Krig och fred kom till som en reaktion på tidens upphöjelse av kriget 1812 som något stort och ärofullt."

I verket riktar Tolstoj kritik mot historikerna och deras anspråk på att ägna sig åt vetenskap. Det är dessa satiriska stycken som lämnats bort i tidigare översättningar, trots att de spelar en väsentlig roll i romanbygget. Krig och fred är en historisk roman som både till form och innehåll är unik och mer aktuell än någonsin.]]> 420 Leo Tolstoy 9174619241 Bakunin 0 4.05 1867 Krig och fred Vol. 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality]]> 61028382 320 Andy Clark 024139452X Bakunin 0 3.87 2023 The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
author: Andy Clark
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> Om ålderdom 28247282 Cicero brilliantly addresses the aspects of old age and its sociological problems in a manner that is as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago. With Latin text, notes, and vocabulary, this is a valuable text that intermediate students will find instructive and insightful.

]]> 84 Marcus Tullius Cicero 9178421837 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.00 -44 Om ålderdom
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]]> Die Klasse (German Edition) 33553523 146 Hermann Ungar 3849615871 Bakunin 0 3.57 1927 Die Klasse (German Edition)
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average rating: 3.57
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]]> Döda huset 20743239 Döda huset är Fjodor Dostojevskijs mäktiga och märgfulla berättelse om sina fyra år i sibiriskt fängelse. Det är förmodligen historiens första "rapportbok", och vilken rapportbok: en av världslitteraturens största människokännare berättar i detalj och med lidelsefullt engagemang om sin egen förtvivlade situation och om vardagen i detta urtypiska grymma fängelse. Han lever sig empatiskt in i medfångarnas fruktansvärda och gripande livsöden.]]> 299 Fyodor Dostoevsky Bakunin 0 to-read 3.84 1861 Döda huset
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]]> Säljbibeln 15796696
Då har du hittat helt rätt!

Sveriges främste säljexpert, Rolf Laurelli hjälper dig att röja bort vanliga säljproblem och guidar dig till större framgångar - och han gör det i den nya boken Säljbibeln på över 400 sidor.

I 44 snabblästa och lätttillgängliga kapitel får du och dina säljare både en uppfräschning av det ni redan kan och ett stöd att använda i alla tänkbara säljsituationer.]]> 440 Rolf Laurelli Bakunin 0 to-read 3.50 2010 Säljbibeln
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]]> Så blev vi alla rasister 39296464
Men vänsterns nya ”antirasister” reducerar paradoxalt nog människor till deras rastillhörighet. Gårdagens ondska har ersatts av goda intentioner, men fördomen är densamma. Delar man hudfärg antas man också dela erfarenheter, tankar och känslor.

I Så blev vi alla rasister beskrivs hur idéer som kretsar kring ras och hudfärg, efter sjuttio år, har återkommit för att bli en självklar del av svensk offentlig debatt.]]> Ivar Arpi 9177031148 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.63 2018 Så blev vi alla rasister
author: Ivar Arpi
name: Bakunin
average rating: 3.63
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]]> <![CDATA[The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages]]> 357645 578 Harold Bloom 0151957479 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.81 1994 The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
author: Harold Bloom
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Ich und Du 1771027 160 Martin Buber 3150093422 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.92 1923 Ich und Du
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name: Bakunin
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]]> <![CDATA[The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed]]> 44512535 280 Christof Koch 0262042819 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.87 The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
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]]> <![CDATA[Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983]]> 29093109 304 Robert Bresson 1681370441 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.26 2013 Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983
author: Robert Bresson
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]]> Den svarte mannens börda 42118572 Swedish / Svenska 462 Fredrik Segerfeldt 9177031474 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.82 Den svarte mannens börda
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature]]> 27486 The Mating Mind marks the arrival of a prescient and provocative new science writer. Psychologist Geoffrey Miller offers the most convincing-and radical-explanation for how and why the human mind evolved.

Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin's theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin's theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species.]]> 528 Geoffrey Miller 038549517X Bakunin 0 to-read 4.10 2000 The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Talk Dirty and Influence People]]> 105989 188 Lenny Bruce 0671751085 Bakunin 0 comedy 4.00 1965 How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
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]]> <![CDATA[Augustus: First Emperor of Rome]]> 20949792  
"A fascinating study of political life in ancient Rome."—Nick Romeo, Christian 카지노싸이트 Monitor

Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in Western history, is filled with drama and contradiction, risky gambles and unexpected success. Thrusting himself into Rome’s extremely violent politics while yet a very young man, Augustus skillfully maneuvered his way through twisting alliances during years of civil war. Named heir to the murdered Julius Caesar, he outwitted and outlasted far more experienced rivals like Antony and Brutus. Ruling supreme, he reinvented himself as a benevolent man of peace and created a new system of government.
 
In this highly anticipated biography Goldsworthy puts his deep knowledge of ancient sources to full use, recounting the events of Augustus’ long life in greater detail than ever before. Goldsworthy pins down the man behind the a consummate manipulator, propagandist, and showman, both generous and ruthless. Under Augustus’ rule the empire prospered, yet his success was never assured and the events of his life unfolded with exciting unpredictability. Goldsworthy captures the passion and savagery, the public image and private struggles of the real man whose epic life continues to influence Western history.]]> 624 Adrian Goldsworthy 0300178727 Bakunin 0 4.26 2014 Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman]]> 10260
El placer de descubrir permite acceder al mundo personal, social y cientíco de Richard Feynman, por ejemplo, a sus aventuras mientras participó en el Proyecto Manhattan, cuando se divertía —y escandalizaba— descifrando las claves de cajas fuertes, o a cómo se inició, siendo un niño, en el estudio de la naturaleza (en el «placer de descubrir»), que terminaría ocupando toda su vida. Podemos, asimismo, conocer sus pioneras ideas sobre las computadoras del futuro, su opinión acerca del valor de la ciencia o la explicación, tan sencilla como profunda, que dio al desastre de la lanzadera espacial Challenger. Es este, sin duda, un libro tan fascinante como su autor.]]> 270 Richard P. Feynman Bakunin 0 4.26 1999 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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]]> <![CDATA[The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements]]> 15916 177 Eric Hoffer 0060505915 Bakunin 2 4.18 1951 The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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]]> <![CDATA[The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More]]> 2467566 New York Times bestseller that introduced the business world to a future that s already here -- now in paperback with a new chapter about Long Tail Marketing and a new epilogue.

Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book of the Year.

In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn t in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses -- the endlessly long tail of that same curve.]]> 267 Chris Anderson 1401309666 Bakunin 0 3.82 2006 The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
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]]> <![CDATA[Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven]]> 17883941
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.

Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.”

It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists. ]]> 672 John Eliot Gardiner 0375415297 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.09 2013 Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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]]> Domenico Scarlatti 624186 496 Ralph Kirkpatrick 0691027080 Bakunin 0 4.07 1953 Domenico Scarlatti
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]]> Niels Lyhne 456977 Niels Lyhne, a naturalist work, was a "poet associated with the so-called 'modern breakthrough' in Danish literature in the 1870s. . . . Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis, both novels are unique in an age of realism on account of their highly charged, atmospheric prose and almost lyrical style."]]> 146 Jens Peter Jacobsen 1598183451 Bakunin 0 classic, fiction, to-read 3.96 1880 Niels Lyhne
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]]> <![CDATA[The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity]]> 615570 The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.]]> 237 Julia Cameron 1585421464 Bakunin 0 3.93 2002 The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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]]> <![CDATA[East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"]]> 27068666
East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, “the little Paris of Ukraine,” a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. It begins in 2010 and moves backward and forward in time, from the present day to twentieth-century Poland, France, Germany, England, and America, ending in the courtroom of the Palace of Justice at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1945. The book opens with the author being invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University, welcomed as the first international law academic to give a lecture there on such subjects in fifty years. Sands accepted the invitation with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city with its rich cultural and intellectual life, home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century before and who’d moved to Vienna at the outbreak of the First World War, married, had a child (the author’s mother), and who then had moved to Paris after the German annexation of Austria in 1938. It was a life that had been shrouded in secrecy, with many questions not to be asked and fewer answers offered if they were. As the author uncovered, clue by clue, the deliberately obscured story of his grandfather’s mysterious life and of his flight first to Vienna and then to Paris, and of his mother’s journey as a child surviving Nazi occupation, Sands searched further into the history of the city of Lemberg and realized that his own field of humanitarian law had been forged by two men—Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht—each of whom had studied law at Lviv University in the city of his grandfather’s birth, each of whom had come to be considered the finest international legal mind of the twentieth century, each considered to be the father of the modern human rights movement, and each, at parallel times, forging diametrically opposite, revolutionary concepts of humanitarian law that had changed the world. In this extraordinary and resonant book, Sands looks at who these two very private men were, and at how and why, coming from similar Jewish backgrounds and the same city, studying at the same university, each developed the theory he did, showing how each man dedicated this period of his life to having his legal concept—“genocide” and “crimes against humanity”—as a centerpiece for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals. And the author writes of a third man, Hans Frank, Hitler’s personal lawyer, a Nazi from the earliest days who had destroyed so many lives, friend of Richard Strauss, collector of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Frank oversaw the ghetto in Lemberg in Poland in August 1942, in which the entire large Jewish population of the area had been confined on penalty of death. Frank, who was instrumental in the construction of concentration camps nearby and, weeks after becoming governor general of Nazi-occupied Poland, ordered the transfer of 133,000 men, women, and children to the death camps. Sands brilliantly writes of how all three men came together, in October 1945 in Nuremberg—Rafael Lemkin; Hersch Lauterpacht; and in the dock at the Palace of Justice, with the twenty other defendants of the Nazi high command, prisoner number 7, Hans Frank, who had overseen the extermination of more than a million Jews of Galicia and Lemberg, among them, the families of the author’s grandfather as well as those of Lemkin and Lauterpacht. A book that changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder. Powerful; moving; tender; a revelation.]]> 448 Philippe Sands 0385350716 Bakunin 3 4.46 2016 East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
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]]> The Persian Expedition 168487 375 Xenophon 0140440070 Bakunin 3 4.11 -400 The Persian Expedition
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Enjoyed it although I thought it did get a bit monotonous after a while.
]]> <![CDATA[History of the Peloponnesian War]]> 261243 648 Thucydides 0140440399 Bakunin 0 ancient-greece, to-read 3.90 -411 History of the Peloponnesian War
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]]> <![CDATA[Historien om Charles A. Lindbergh : från Jesus till Judas]]> 35699409 Det fanns vid tiden en närmast religiös övertygelse om att flyget nu skulle komma hela mänskligheten till godo och göra slut på krig och utrota fattigdom och sjukdomar. Charles Lindbergh steg ned från skyn som en Messias.
Men triumfen övergår i tragedi när hans ännu inte tvåårige son kidnappas och hittas död. Händelsen får enorm uppmärksamhet och beskrivs som århundradets brott. För att komma undan tar Charles Lindbergh sin familj till Europa där andra världskriget är i annalkande. Under besök i Tyskland imponeras han av vad han uppfattar som en samhällelig framtidsanda och vitalitet. Han har då redan tagit till sig tidens rasbiologiska teorier.
När kriget bryter ut återvänder han till Amerika. Trots att han skyr offentligheten utnyttjar han sitt kändisskap för att hindra USA från att gå in i kriget. Han utpekas som förrädare och beskylls för att gå nazisternas ärenden. Hjälten som hyllats som en modern Jesus var plötsligt en Judas.

Historien om Charles A. Lindbergh är en rikt illustrerad biografi om den legendariske flygaren vars liv överträffar sagan.

"Fascinerande är Lennart Pehrsons berättelse om Atlantflygningen och dramatiken i Lindberghs liv. [...] Vilken man! Härligt att läsa om honom!"
- Östgöta Correspondenten]]> 520 Lennart Pehrson 9100153621 Bakunin 0 3.80 Historien om Charles A. Lindbergh : från Jesus till Judas
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]]> <![CDATA[Midlife: A Philosophical Guide]]> 34427017 Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.

You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps.

Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.]]> 189 Kieran Setiya 0691173931 Bakunin 0 3.54 2017 Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[När allt gick under: brev från den romerska republikens sista år / Marcus Tullius Cicero; översättning och inledning av Eric Cullhed]]> 35846009 223 Marcus Tullius Cicero 9127147010 Bakunin 0 3.19 När allt gick under: brev från den romerska republikens sista år / Marcus Tullius Cicero; översättning och inledning av Eric Cullhed
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]]> <![CDATA[Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries]]> 30781490 Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made a must read for word mavens.

While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography--from the agonizing decisions about what and how to define, to the knotty questions of usage in an ever-changing language. She explains why small words are the most difficult to define (have you ever tried to define is ?), how it can take nine months to define a single word, and how our biases about language and pronunciation can have tremendous social influence. Throughout, Stamper brings to life the hallowed halls (and highly idiosyncratic cubicles) of Merriam-Webster, a world inhabited by quirky, erudite individuals who quietly shape the way we communicate. A sure delight for all lovers of words, Word by Word might also quietly improve readers grasp and use of the English language."]]> 296 Kory Stamper 110187094X Bakunin 0 biography, language, to-read 4.18 2017 Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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]]> The Bear 2868701 A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. A version of it was published as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post on May 9, 1942. It was subsequently incorporated into the author's novel Go Down, Moses (1942); but has since sometimes been published as a free-standing novella.]]> 193 William Faulkner 0792705378 Bakunin 0 fiction, classic, to-read 3.51 1942 The Bear
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average rating: 3.51
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]]> Ostron i Prag 61236115
Ostron i Prag är inte bara en ovärderlig tidsskildring, den är också en retrospektiv självbiografi om en ung man som söker kärlek och mening i en stad som kan erbjuda varken det ena eller det andra.

Richard Swartz är författare och mångårig medarbetare i både Svenska Dagbladet och Dagens Nyheter, och har belönats med både Gerard Bonniers essäpris och Jolopriset. Han har fått stor uppmärksamhet för sina böcker Room service, Ett hus i Istrien och Vita lögner]]> 325 Richard Swartz 9177959310 Bakunin 0 non-fiction, autobiography 3.52 Ostron i Prag
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average rating: 3.52
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]]> <![CDATA[Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New 카지노싸이트 of Consciousness]]> 43069288
Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some even suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved. Decades have been spent trying to explain consciousness from within our current scientific paradigm, but little progress has been made.

Now, Philip Goff offers an exciting alternative that could pave the way forward. Rooted in an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the early twentieth-century work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that consciousness is not confined to biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical matter—from subatomic particles to the human brain. In Galileo's Error, he has provided the first step on a new path to the final theory of human consciousness.]]> 256 Philip Goff 1524747963 Bakunin 0 3.93 2019 Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New 카지노싸이트 of Consciousness
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]]> Vi och dom 36692368 Vi och dom lyfter författaren fram den ryska historiens pendelrörelser mellan stagnation och uppbrott, förtryck och töväder, reformer och kontrareformer. Ryssarna ser gärna sitt land som moraliskt överlägset länderna i Väst – en uppfattning starkt påverkad av den ortodoxa kyrkans roll. Genom att redogöra för huvuddragen i den ryska ”civilisationsmyten” hjälper oss Rysslandskännaren Bengt Jangfeldt att förstå inte bara vårt grannlands idéhistoria utan också det speciella i dagens ryska politik och kultur.

Bengt Jangfeldt har två gånger tilldelats Augustpriset, för Svenska vägar till S:t Petersburg (1998) och för sin stora biografi över den ryske poeten Vladimir Majakovskij Med livet som insats (2007). I En rysk historia (2015) berättade han om sitt intresse för rysk kultur och ryska språket – ett intresse som har följt honom genom hela hans yrkesbana.]]> 208 Bengt Jangfeldt 9146229639 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.80 2017 Vi och dom
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]]> <![CDATA[Tre bröder : minnen av min familj]]> 59353966
Yans föräldrar är så fattiga att de bara har råd att använda vetemjöl på nyårs- och festdagar, Yan drömmer om stekt bläckfisk och längtar efter att lämna byn. Han bestämmer sig för att själv bli författare efter att ha läst på baksidan av en roman att dess författare fick stanna kvar i staden Harbin efter att ha publicerat sin bok.
Yan tar arbete i en cementfabrik, arbetar inte sällan sexton timmar långa pass, och på nätterna skriver han.

Tre bröder är ett levande porträtt av en politiskt förödande period i Kinas historia och en hyllning till familjens förmåga att hålla ihop även under stor utsatthet.]]> 252 Yan Lianke 9127172953 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.43 2009 Tre bröder : minnen av min familj
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]]> <![CDATA[A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution]]> 45031867 From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world

The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all of their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror.

Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.]]> 640 Jeremy D. Popkin 0465096662 Bakunin 0 4.14 2019 A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary]]> 134825
The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."

The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.]]> 241 Eric S. Raymond 0596001088 Bakunin 3 3.82 1999 The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
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]]> The Plains 1593668
Twenty years later, he begins to tell his haunting story of life on the plains. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, 'a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself'.]]> 111 Gerald Murnane 1930974280 Bakunin 0 fiction, literature, to-read 3.79 1982 The Plains
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]]> Mine Were of Trouble 22907892
Thousands of foreigners, too, join the struggle. Most fight with the Soviet-sponsored International Brigades or other militias aligned with the loyalist “Republicans”. Only a few side with the rebel “Nationalists”. One of these rare volunteers for the Nationalists was Peter Kemp, a young British law student. Kemp, despite having little training or command of the Spanish language, was moved by the Nationalist struggle against international Communism. Using forged documents, he sneaked into Spain and joined a traditionalist militia, the Requetés, with which he saw intense fighting. Later, he volunteered to join the legendary and ruthless Spanish Foreign Legion, where he distinguished himself with heroism. Because of this bravery, he was one of the few foreign volunteers granted an private audience with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

Kemp published his story in 1957, one of the only English accounts of the war from the Nationalist perspective, after a prestigious military career with the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.]]> 208 Peter Kemp Bakunin 0 to-read 4.27 1957 Mine Were of Trouble
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]]> Kubrick: An Odyssey 179922986
The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years.

Stanley An Odyssey fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick's archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other private papers plus new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick’s personal, private, public, and working life. Stanley An Odyssey investigates not only the making of Kubrick's films, but also about those he wanted (but failed) to make like Burning Secret , Napoleon , Aryan Papers , and A.I.

Revealingly, this immersive biography will puncture the controversial myths about the reclusive filmmaker who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century]]> 656 Robert P. Kolker 1639366245 Bakunin 3 biography 4.21 2023 Kubrick: An Odyssey
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]]> <![CDATA[Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece]]> 35297381
Regarded as a masterpiece today, 2001: A Space Odyssey received mixed reviews on its 1968 release. Despite the success of Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick wasn’t yet recognized as a great filmmaker, and 2001 was radically innovative, with little dialogue and no strong central character. Although some leading critics slammed the film as incomprehensible and self-indulgent, the public lined up to see it. 2001 ’s resounding commercial success launched the genre of big-budget science fiction spectaculars. Such directors as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, and James Cameron have acknowledged its profound influence.

Author Michael Benson explains how 2001 was made, telling the story primarily through the two people most responsible for the film, Kubrick and science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke. Benson interviewed Clarke many times, and has also spoken at length with Kubrick’s widow, Christiane; with visual effects supervisor Doug Trumbull; with Dan Richter, who played 2001 ’s leading man-ape; and many others.

A colorful nonfiction narrative packed with memorable characters and remarkable incidents, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of this extraordinary work, tracking the film from Kubrick and Clarke’s first meeting in New York in 1964 through its UK production from 1965-1968, during which some of the most complex sets ever made were merged with visual effects so innovative that they scarcely seem dated today. A concluding chapter examines the film’s legacy as it grew into it current justifiably exalted status.]]> 512 Michael Benson 1501163930 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.38 2018 Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
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]]> <![CDATA[Playing on different drums / Igra na raznykh barabanakh]]> 104018366
Za zasłoną codzienności autorka dostrzega zawsze coś, co burzy porządek i niepokoi. Odkrywamy to w intrygującej opowieści o czytelniczce kryminałów, w napisanym ze swadą historycznym apokryfie czy w miniaturze o angielskim profesorze, który przybywa do Warszawy 12 grudnia 1981 roku i nazajutrz budzi się w obcej i niezrozumiałej krainie... Każde z opowiadań zamieszczonych w książce w odmienny, często zaskakujący sposób ożywia, przeformułowuje lub ocala bogactwo krótkiej formy.]]> 0 Olga Tokarczuk 586793456X Bakunin 0 to-read 3.00 2001 Playing on different drums / Igra na raznykh barabanakh
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]]> Indignity: A Life Reimagined 222376548 The award-winning author of Free returns with an extraordinary investigation into historical injustice, personal and collective dignity, truth and imagination


When Lea Ypi discovers that a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Italian Alps in 1941 has been posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with deeply unsettling questions. Growing up, she had been told all records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed “when the police came and took everything” in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan glamorous newlyweds while World War II was raging in the background.

What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past as we are transported to the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy in Salonica, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans, through secret police archives and muddied memories. While investigating the truth about her family, Ypi grapples with uncertainty. Who is the real Leman Ypi? If her family lived in the Ottoman Empire, why did she speak French? What made her move to Tirana as a young woman and meet a socialist who sympathized with the Popular Front while his father led a collaborationist government? And, above all, why was she smiling in the winter of 1941? All these questions were also asked by the Albanian secret police.

As much a sweeping story about lost worlds as it is a philosophical inquiry, Indignity shows what it is like to make choices against the tide of history. Through reports of communist spies, court depositions, anecdotes and characters that live on in Ypi’s memory, we move between “now” and ”then”, fact and fiction, what we learn from archives and what we can imagine, to reckon with the injustices of the past.

By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity is a meditation on the fragility of truth, both personal and political. Ultimately, Ypi asks, with what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations? And what do we really know about the people closest to us?
]]> 368 Lea Ypi 0374614091 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.50 Indignity: A Life Reimagined
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]]> Fugitive Days: A Memoir 16143 320 Bill Ayers 0142002550 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.71 2001 Fugitive Days: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence]]> 22571602 Public Enemies  &  The Big Rich , an account of the battle between the FBI & revolutionary movements of the '70s: Weathermen, The Symbionese Liberation Army, The FALN, The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, but then bombings by domestic underground groups were daily occurrences. The FBI combated these & other groups as nodes of a single revolutionary underground dedicated to the violent overthrow of the USA. Burrough's Days of Rage recreates an atmosphere almost unbelievable decades later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, often nice middle-class kids, smuggling bombs into skyscrapers & detonating them inside the Pentagon & the Capitol, at a Boston courthouse & a Wall Street restaurant. The FBI’s response included the formation of a secret task force, Squad 47, dedicated to hunting the groups down. But Squad 47 itself broke laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice. Its efforts ended in fiasco. Drawing on interviews about their experiences with members of the underground & the FBI, Days of Rage is a look into the hearts & minds of homegrown terrorists & federal agents alike, weaving their stories into a secret history of the '70s.]]> 608 Bryan Burrough 1594204292 Bakunin 0 3.92 2015 Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
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]]> Dr. No 59808430 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9781644452080

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising

The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he’ll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks.

With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill’s desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, “Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it’s time we gave nothing back.”

Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of our most inventive, provocative, and productive writers. That it is about nothing isn’t to say that it’s not about anything. In fact, it’s about villains. Bond villains. And that’s not nothing.]]> 262 Percival Everett Bakunin 0 to-read 3.68 2022 Dr. No
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]]> James 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett 0385550367 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.44 2024 James
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]]> <![CDATA[Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland]]> 40163119
Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders.

Patrick Radden Keefe writes an intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.]]> 441 Patrick Radden Keefe 0385521316 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.47 2018 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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]]> Educated 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.46 2018 Educated
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]]> Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life 214152388 The first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel.

Robert Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place for adult expression, in the process pioneering the underground comic book industry, and transforming the vernacular language of 20th-century America into an instantly recognizable and popular aesthetic, as iconic as Walt Disney or Charles Schulz. Now, for the first time, Dan Nadel, a curator and writer specializing in comics and art, shares how this complicated artist survived childhood abuse, fame in his twenties, more fame, and came out the other side intact.

More than just a biography of an iconic cartoonist, Crumb is the story of a richly complex life at the forefront of both the underground and popular cultures of post-war America. Including forty-five stunning black-and-white images throughout and a sixteen-page color insert featuring images both iconic and obscure, Crumb spans the pressures of 1950s suburban America and Crumb’s highly dysfunctional early family life; the history of comics and graphic satire; 20th century popular music; the world of the counterculture; the birth of underground comic books in 1960s San Francisco with Crumb’s Zap Comix; the economic challenges and dissolution of the hippie dream; and the path Robert Crumb blazed through it all.

Written with Crumb’s cooperation, this fascinating, rollicking book takes in seven decades of Crumb’s iconic works, including Fritz the Cat, Weirdo, and his final book-length comic of The Book of Genesis; capturing, in the process, the essence of an extraordinary artist and his times.]]> 458 Dan Nadel 1982144009 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.41 Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life
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]]> Mike Nichols: A Life 53479533 A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back

Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him an Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever. At thirty-five, he lived in a three-story Central Park West penthouse, drove a Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, and counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends.

Where he arrived is even more astonishing given where he had begun: born Igor Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he and his younger brother were sent to America on a ship in 1939. The young immigrant boy caught very few breaks. He was bullied and ostracized--an allergic reaction had rendered him permanently hairless--and his father died when he was just twelve, leaving his mother alone and overwhelmed.

The gulf between these two sets of facts explains a great deal about Nichols's transformation from lonely outsider to the center of more than one cultural universe--the acute powers of observation that first made him famous; the nourishment he drew from his creative partnerships, most enduringly with May; his unquenchable drive; his hunger for security and status; and the depressions and self-medications that brought him to terrible lows. It would take decades for him to come to grips with his demons. In an incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New York to Chicago to Hollywood, Mark Harris explores, with brilliantly vivid detail and insight, the life, work, struggle, and passion of an artist and man in constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem.

Mark Harris gives an intimate and evenhanded accounting of success and failure alike; the portrait is not always flattering, but its ultimate impact is to present the full story of one of the most richly interesting, complicated, and consequential figures the worlds of theater and motion pictures have ever seen. It is a triumph of the biographer's art.]]> 688 Mark Harris 0399562249 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.47 2021 Mike Nichols: A Life
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]]> Dimes Square and Other Plays 62962043 Dimes Square announced Matthew Gasda as a dramatist of lasting power and impressive range, the theatrical chronicler of a self-chronicling generation. At a time when large, institutional theatres were still finding their post-pandemic footing, this brutal, hilarious portrait of New York City scenesters drew in new and diverse audiences by distilling the zeitgeist of our strange new era—a bitter cocktail of dirtbag politics, casual depravity, and pitiless ambition.

Bringing together four of Gasda’s most penetrating works—Dimes Square, Quartet, Berlin Story, and Minotaur—this collection surveys a fractured and exhausted cultural-intellectual landscape. From squalid apartments to country estates to hipster bars, these plays give us characters grasping for meaning and human connection in an age of material abundance and moral dislocation. Unflinching, yet marked by exquisite moments of grace, they mark the arrival of a significant dramatic voice.]]> 283 Matthew Gasda 1493075713 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.45 2023 Dimes Square and Other Plays
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]]> The Sleepers 220257856 A Contemporary Tragedy in a Classic Style

Four New Yorkers' paths collide in the days ahead of the 2016 election. Dan teaches Marxism while secretly courting a student. His girlfriend Mariko, an actress, finds refuge in her dying mentor's bed. When her sister, Akari, arrives from LA—in flight from her own dead-end romance—she becomes the unwitting witness to their mutual destruction . . .
 
In crystalline prose, Gasda maps the territory between who we pretend to be and who we are—and how far we are willing to go when we think the internet isn't looking. The Sleepers, a ruthless portrait of educated Millennials who know better but act worse, throws a jagged, electric light on how desire upends our carefully curated social personas.
 ]]> 294 Matthew Gasda Bakunin 0 to-read 3.58 The Sleepers
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]]> INCEL: A Novel 188944155
Suicidally depressed, twenty-two year old anon has settled on a if he can't find a way to lose his virginity by the date of his next birthday, he’s going to pick a fight with the biggest, baddest man he can find, and get himself killed.

For anon, social alienation is a simple matter of unvarnished America in the year 2012 is a brutal Darwinian hellscape where every man is engaged in a ruthless competition for access to attractive females-and losers like him are left to rot.

As he begins his first year of graduate studies in evolutionary psychology, the looming threat of his personal deadline mutates into a totalizing obsession to validate his theories and achieve sex for the first time. Convinced that he's discovered a special method for "hacking" the mating patterns in human behavior, he starts upon a path that only threatens to further destabilize his already fragile psyche, hurtling him toward a crucible of his own design.

★ ★ ★ From literary newcomer ARX-Han, INCEL represents the absolute frontier in transgressive psychological fiction. Fusing the correlated shards of masculinity, shame, and hatred, it casts a singular account of a young mind's unyielding descent into the memetic spiral of online radicalization. Alternating between waves of realism and satire, INCEL flows between the interwoven ideologies of pickup artists, The Red Pill, involuntary celibates, and the alt-right—tracing a bleakly comic portrait that echoes into the near past and our imminent future.

⚠ MANGA-APPRECIATORS PLEASE TAKE INCEL IS A LITERARY WORK (A TEXT-BASED NOVEL), NOT A MANGA/COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL]]> 310 ARX-Han Bakunin 0 to-read 4.21 2023 INCEL: A Novel
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]]> The Ski Bum 2705212 244 Romain Gary Bakunin 0 to-read 3.87 1964 The Ski Bum
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]]> <![CDATA[The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization]]> 91024 In this dramatic new narrative account, historian and classicist Barry Strauss brings this landmark battle to life. He introduces us to the unforgettable characters whose decisions altered history: Themistocles, Athens' great leader (and admiral of its fleet), who devised the ingenious strategy that effectively destroyed the Persian navy in one day; Xerxes, the Persian king who fought bravely but who ultimately did not understand the sea; Aeschylus, the playwright who served in the battle and later wrote about it; and Artemisia, the only woman commander known from antiquity, who turned defeat into personal triumph. Filled with the sights, sounds, and scent of battle, The Battle of Salamis is a stirring work of history.

]]> 294 Barry S. Strauss 0743244516 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.09 2004 The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration]]> 62926960
From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames

Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States. 

Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a breakdown in the political order circa 2020. The years since have proved his prediction more and more accurate, and End Times reveals why.

The lessons of world history are clear, Turchin When the equilibrium between ruling elites and the majority tips too far in favor of elites, political instability is all but inevitable. As income inequality surges and prosperity flows disproportionately into the hands of the elites, the common people suffer, and society-wide efforts to become an elite grow ever more frenzied. He calls this process the wealth pump; it’s a world of the damned and the saved. And since the number of such positions remains relatively fixed, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. Turchin’s models show that when this state has been reached, societies become locked in a death spiral it's very hard to exit.

In America, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. As cliodynamics shows us, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  That is only one possible end time, and the choice is up to us, but the hour grows late.]]> 368 Peter Turchin 0593490509 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.02 End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
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]]> <![CDATA[Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War]]> 91035

Strauss points out that major Athenian accounts of father-son conflict--such as the myth of the Athenian national hero, Theseus, and the plays of Euripides and Aristophanes--were either produced or enthusiastically revived during the war. He traces the relation between the use of familial metaphors in these accounts and fluctuations in Athenian wartime as the fortunes of Athens shifted, citizens went from confidence in their elder statesman Pericles to enthusiasm over a new generation of young politicians led by Pericles' ward Alcibiades, and back to an insistence on what Athenians called the "paternal" rule of older leaders. In emphasizing the blurring of boundaries between family and state, or private and public, in Athens, Strauss encourages us to reflect anew on the distinction between these concepts and on the difficulties of putting that distinction into practice today.]]> 299 Barry S. Strauss 0691015910 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.33 1993 Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War
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]]> Monsignor Quixote 25660816 185 Graham Greene Bakunin 0 to-read 3.86 Monsignor Quixote
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]]> I, Claudius/Claudius the God 18769 839 Robert Graves 0140093141 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.45 I, Claudius/Claudius the God
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]]> Friedrich Schleiermacher 2260487 -- from the book's jacket]]> 157 C.W. Christian 0943575710 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.33 1979 Friedrich Schleiermacher
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]]> The Legacy of Greece 20424560 Richard Livingstone Bakunin 0 to-read 4.50 1969 The Legacy of Greece
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]]> <![CDATA[An apology for the builder, or, A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building.]]> 14245762

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An apology for the builder; or A discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building
Barbon, Nicholas, d. 1698.
By Nicholas Barbon.
[2], 37, [1] p.
London : [s.n.], printed in the year, MDCLXXXIX. [1689]
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) / B705
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]]> <![CDATA[The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition]]> 34082146 above the Mason-Dixon Line—its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century.


As prize-winning historian Linda Gordon demonstrates, the second Klan’s enemies included Catholics and Jews as well as African Americans. Its bigotry differed in intensity but not in kind from that of millions of other WASP Americans. Its membership, limited to white Protestant native-born citizens, was entirely respectable, drawn from small businesspeople, farmers, craftsmen, and professionals, and including about 1.5 million women. For many Klanspeople, membership simultaneously reflected a protest against an increasingly urban society and provided an entrée into the new middle class.


Never secret, this Klan recruited openly, through newspaper ads, in churches, and through extravagant mass "Americanism" pageants, often held on Independence Day. These "Klonvocations" drew tens of thousands and featured fireworks, airplane stunts, children’s games, and women’s bake-offs—and, of course, cross-burnings. The Klan even controlled about one hundred and fifty newspapers, as well as the Cavalier Motion Picture Company, dedicated to countering Hollywood’s "immoral"—and Jewish—influence. The Klan became a major political force, electing thousands to state offices and over one hundred to national offices, while successfully lobbying for the anti-immigration Reed-Johnson Act of 1924.


As Gordon shows, the themes of 1920s Klan ideology were not aberrant, but an indelible part of American history: its "100% Americanism" and fake news, broadcast by charismatic speakers, preachers, and columnists, became part of the national fabric. Its spokespeople vilified big-city liberals, "money-grubbing Jews," "Pope-worshipping Irish," and intellectuals for promoting jazz, drinking, and cars (because they provided the young with sexual privacy).


The Klan’s collapse in 1926 was no less flamboyant, done in by its leaders’ financial and sexual corruption, culminating in the conviction of Grand Dragon David Stephenson for raping and murdering his secretary, and chewing up parts of her body. Yet the Klan’s brilliant melding of Christian values with racial bigotry lasted long after the organization’s decline, intensifying a fear of diversity that has long been a dominant undercurrent of American history.


Documenting what became the largest social movement of the first half of the twentieth century, The Second Coming of the Ku Klux Klan exposes the ancestry and helps explain the dangerous appeal of today’s welter of intolerance.]]> 272 Linda Gordon 1631493698 Bakunin 0 to-read, america, politics 3.80 2017 The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
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]]> <![CDATA[Death in Venice and Other Tales]]> 53064 384 Thomas Mann 0141181737 Bakunin 5 3.92 1998 Death in Venice and Other Tales
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]]> Brothers 206728658 In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.

Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen’s love letter to his younger brother, Edward, (Maybe “Ed,” but never “Eddie”), written while still mourning his untimely death.

In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother—the kind of mom who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became—a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behavior. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love.

"I was with him from day one,” Alex writes. “We shared the experience of coming to this country and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime." 

There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death. 

Brothers includes never-before-seen photos from the author’s private archives.]]> 240 Alex Van Halen 0063265729 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.06 2024 Brothers
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]]> Lamb to the Slaughter 171948 Parson's Pleasure is a country tale, A Piece of Cake, a wartime reminiscence, Lamb to the Slaughter a story of vengeful murder, and the remaining two, The Bookseller and The Butler, are on favorite themes of greed and snobbery.]]> 87 Roald Dahl 0146000552 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.23 1953 Lamb to the Slaughter
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]]> <![CDATA[I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years]]> 190572 576 Victor Klemperer 0375756973 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.38 1995 I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
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]]> <![CDATA[Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum Letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945]]> 1156681 1784 Victor Klemperer 3746655145 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.72 1995 Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum Letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945
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]]> <![CDATA[Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)]]> 62418 But above all, the work is an amazing record that disclosed Twain's unrestrained admiration of the French heroine's nobility of character. Throughout his life, she remained his favorite historical figure — "the most innocent, the most lovely, the most adorable child the ages have produced."
Completed when the author was nearly sixty, the book reveals a splendidly expressive side of Twain, who wrote, "I like the Joan of Arc best of all my books; & it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the 12 years of preparation & 2 years of writing. The others needed no preparation, & got none."
Matchless in its workmanship, this lesser work will charm — and delightfully surprise — admirers and devotees of the great American author.]]> 329 Mark Twain 0486424596 Bakunin 0 to-read 4.03 1896 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West]]> 213618136
From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and The Economist’s “best CEO of 2024,” and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats.

“Not since Allan Bloom’s astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind—more than one million copies sold—has there been a cultural critique as sweeping as Karp’s.”—George F. Will, The Washington Post

Silicon Valley has lost its way.

Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.

Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. The result? An entire generation for whom the narrow-minded pursuit of the demands of a late capitalist economy has become their calling.

In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.

Above all, our leaders must reject intellectual fragility and preserve space for ideological confrontation. A willingness to risk the disapproval of the crowd, Karp and Zamiska contend, has everything to do with technological and economic outperformance.

At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this book will also lift the veil on Palantir and its broader political project from the inside, offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.]]> 320 Alexander C. Karp 0593798694 Bakunin 1 business, culture, economics 3.63 The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
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Extremely disappointed. The few facts which I knew anything about seemed to be completely erroneous. Silicon Valley was not the product of government and business working together (just read Sebastian Mallabys "the power law" if you aren't convinced). The book is strung together by mostly anecdotal information and tries to outline the authors best case for a greater cooperation between the state and the business community.
]]> <![CDATA[The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3]]> 115596
The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America's Declaration of Independence, and with this landmark treatise on political economy, Adam Smith paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that a truly free market - fired by competition yet guided as if by an 'invisible hand' to ensure justice and equality - was the engine of a fair and productive society. Books I - III of The Wealth of Nations examine the 'division of labour' as the key to economic growth, by ensuring the interdependence of individuals within society. They also cover the origins of money and the importance of wages, profit, rent and stocks; but the real sophistication of his analysis derives from the fact that it encompasses a combination of ethics, philosophy and history to create a vast panorama of society.

This edition contains an analytical introduction offering an in-depth discussion of Smith as an economist and social scientist, as well as a preface, further reading and explanatory notes.]]> 544 Adam Smith 0140432086 Bakunin 0 to-read 3.88 1776 The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3
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]]> Lenin on the Train 29847081
By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home?

Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station.

]]> 368 Catherine Merridale 0241011329 Bakunin 4 3.61 2016 Lenin on the Train
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