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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''<h3>Literary</ | | colspan="5" |<h2>Autobiographies</h2> | ||
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Literary'''</h3> | |||
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| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Life_on_the_Mississippi.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Life on the Mississippi|Life on the Mississippi]]''<br />(1883)<br />by Mark Twain </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Down and Out in Paris and London|Down and Out in Paris and London]]''<br />(1933)<br />by George Orwell </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Wind,_Sand_and_Stars.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Wind, Sand and Stars|Wind, Sand and Stars ]]''<br />(1939)<br />by Antoine de Saint-Exupery </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Speak_Memory.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Speak, Memory|Speak, Memory]]''<br />(1951)<br />by Vladimir Nabokov </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Moveable_Feast.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Moveable Feast|A Moveable Feast]]''<br />(1964)<br />by Ernest Hemingway </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Literary Autobiographies''' | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Diary of Lady Murasaki|Diary]]'' (1010) of Lady Murasaki </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edward Gibbon|Memoirs of My Life]]'' (1793) by Edward Gibbon </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater|Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1821) by Thomas de Quincey </small> | |||
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| | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Six Records of a Floating Life|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' (1825) by Shen Fu </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Stendhal|The Life of Henry Brulard]]'' (1836) by Stendhal </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ecce Homo (book)|Ecce Homo]]'' (1888) by Friedrich Nietzsche </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Goncourt brothers|Pages From the Goncourt Journals]]'' (1896) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mikhail Bulgakov|A Country Doctor's Notebook]]'' (1918) by Mikhail Bulgakov </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Storm of Steel|Storm of Steel]]'' (1920) by Ernst Jünger </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Franz Kafka|Diaries]]'' (1923) of Franz Kafka </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Pasternak|Safe Conduct]]'' (1931) by Boris Pasternak </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:My Life and Hard Times|My Life and Hard Times]]'' (1933) by James Thurber </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|The Autobiography]]'' (1936) of G.K. Chesterton </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rudyard Kipling|Something of Myself]]'' (1937) by Rudyard Kipling </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Homage to Catalonia|Homage to Catalonia]]'' (1938) by George Orwell </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Butler Yeats|The Autobiography]]'' (1938) of William Butler Yeats </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frigyes Karinthy|A Journey Round My Skull ]]'' (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:If This Is a Man|If This Is a Man]]'' (1947) by Primo Levi </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Barbara Comyns|Sisters by a River]]'' (1947) by Barbara Comyns </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sandor Marai|Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948]]'' (1948) by Sandor Marai </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:On Overgrown Paths|On Overgrown Paths]]'' (1949) by Knut Hamsun </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian|The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian]]'' ( ) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri </small> | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian|The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian]]'' (1951) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Carlos Williams|The Autobiography]]'' (1951) of William Carlos Williams </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Junichiro Tanizaki|Childhood Years: A Memoir]]'' (1956) by Junichiro Tanizaki </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Evelyn Waugh|A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography ]]'' (1964) by Evelyn Waugh </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:J.R. Ackerley|My Father and Myself]]'' (1968) by J.R. Ackerley </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Witold Gombrowicz|Diaries]]'' (1968) of Witold Gombrowicz </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Harry Mathews|My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973]]'' ( ) by Harry Mathews </small> | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Harry Mathews|My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973]]'' (1973) by Harry Mathews </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:R.K. Narayan|My Days]]'' (1974) by R.K. Narayan </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jan Morris|Condundrum]]'' (1974) by Jan Morris </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]'' (1975) by Primo Levi </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Going Solo|Going Solo]]'' (1986) by Roald Dahl </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Prisoner of Love (book)|Prisoner of Love]]'' (1986) by Jean Genet </small> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lyn Hejinian|My Life]]'' (1987) by Lyn Hejinian </small> | |||
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | |||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jacques Roubaud|The Great Fire of London]]'' (1989) by Jacques Roubaud </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Isaac Asimov|I, Asimov: A Memoir]]'' (1994) by Isaac Asimov </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Living to Tell the Tale|Living to Tell the Tale]]'' (2002) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Year of Magical Thinking|The Year of Magical Thinking]]'' (2005) by Joan Didion </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:What I Talk About When I Talk About Running|What I Talk About When I Talk About Running]]'' (2007) by Haruki Murakami </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Donald Keene|Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan]]'' (2008) by Donald Keene </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Karl Ove Knausgård|My Struggle]]'' (2009) by Karl Ove Knausgård </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[ | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[Autobiography]]'' (2013) by Morrissey </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|< | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Historical'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Pillow_Book.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Pillow Book|The Pillow Book]]''<br />(1002)<br />by Sei Shonagon </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin|The Autobiography]]''<br />(1790)<br />of Benjamin Franklin </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Goodbye_to_All_That.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Goodbye to All That|Goodbye to All That]]''<br />(1929)<br />by Robert Graves </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Malcolm X|The Autobiography]]''<br />(1965)<br />of Malcolm X </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Surely_You're_Joking.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!|Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!]]''<br />(1985)<br />by Richard Feynman </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Historical Autobiographies''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kagerō Nikki|Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan ]]'' (974) by Mother of Michitsuna </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sarashina Nikki|As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams]]'' (11th Century) by Lady Sarashina </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lady Nijo|The Confessions]]'' (1307) of Lady Nijo </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Baburnama|The Baburnama: Memoirs]]'' (1530) of Babur </small> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Benvenuto Cellini|The Autobiography]]'' (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini </small> | |||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Girolamo Cardano|The Book of My Life]]'' (1576) by Girolamo Cardano </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Samuel Pepys|The Diary]]'' (1669) of Samuel Pepys </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:George Fox|The Journal]]'' (1694) of George Fox </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Histoire de ma vie|Story of My Life]]'' (1774) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Catherine the Great|The Memoirs]]'' (1795) of Catherine the Great </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave|Narrative of the Life]]'' (1845) of Frederick Douglass </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Katsu Kokichi|Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai]]'' (1850) of Katsu Kokichi </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:William Tecumseh Sherman|The Autobiography]]'' (1886) of William Tecumseh Sherman </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant|Personal Memoirs]]'' (1886) of Ulysses S. Grant </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Autobiography of Charles Darwin|The Autobiography]]'' (1887) of Charles Darwin </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Yukichi Fukuzawa|The Autobiography]]'' (1899) of Yukichi Fukuzawa </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Letters of Vincent van Gogh|The Letters]]'' (1891) by Vincent van Gogh </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Daniel Paul Schreber|Memoirs of My Nervous Illness]]'' (1902) by Daniel Paul Schreber </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Story of My Life (biography)|The Story of My Life]]'' (1903) by Helen Keller </small> | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Story of My Life (biography)|The Story of My Life]]'' (1903) by Helen Keller </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Maxim Gorky|My Childhood]]'' (1914) by Maxim Gorky </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Seven Pillars of Wisdom|Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' (1922) by T.E. Lawrence </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Memoirs of an Infantry Officer|Memoirs of an Infantry Officer]]'' (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí|The Secret Life]]'' (1942) of Salvador Dali </small> | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí|The Secret Life]]'' (1942) of Salvador Dali </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Diary of a Young Girl|The Diary of a Young Girl]]'' (1944) by Anne Frank </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Felix Yusupov|Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin]]'' (1953) by Felix Yusupov </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Frida Kahlo|The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait]]'' (1954) by Frida Kahlo </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cider with Rosie|Cider with Rosie]]'' (1959) by Laurie Lee </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Norman Rockwell|Norman Rockwell]]'' (1960) by Norman Rockwell </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Memories, Dreams, Reflections|Memories, Dreams, Reflections]]'' (1963) by Carl Jung </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Double Helix|The Double Helix]]'' (1968) by James D. Watson </small> | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Double Helix|The Double Helix]]'' (1968) by James D. Watson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Anne Truitt|Daybook: The Journey of an Artist]]'' (1982) by Anne Truitt </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Naturalist (book)|Naturalist]]'' (1994) by Edward O. Wilson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kay Redfield Jamison|An Unquiet Mind]]'' (1995) by Kay Redfield Jamison </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Howard Marks|Mr Nice]]'' (1996) by Howard Marks </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Uncle Tungsten|Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood]]'' (2001) by Oliver Sacks </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mineko Iwasaki|Geisha: A Life]]'' (2002) by Mineko Iwasaki </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|< | | colspan="5" |<h2>Books About Books</h2> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Books About Books''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small> | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Books_about_Books.png|100px]]<small> Books About Books </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1372579076250.jpg|100px]]<small> Writing </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Business</h2> | |||
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| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Intelligent_Investor.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Benjamin Graham|The Intelligent Investor]]''<br />by Benjamin Graham </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Security_Analysis.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Security Analysis (book)|Security Analysis 5th Edition]]''<br />by Graham and Dodd </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Random_Walk_Down_Wallstreet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Peter Lynch|A Random Walk Down Wall Street]]''<br />by Burton G. Malkiel </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the+Little_Book_of_Common_Sense.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Little Book of Common Sense Investing|The Little Book of Common Sense Investing]]''<br />by Jack Bogle </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Irrational_Exuberance.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Irrational Exuberance|Irrational Exuberance]]''<br />by Robert J. Shiller </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Business Books''' | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Peter Lynch|One Up on Wall Street]]'' (1989) by Peter Lynch </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Peter Lynch|Beat the Street]]'' (2005) by Peter Lynch </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jeremy Siegel|Stocks for the Long Run 5th edition]]'' (1994) by Jeremy Sigel </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Philip A. Fisher|Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits]]'' (1958) by Philip A. Fisher </small> | |||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<h2>Essays</h2> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Classic Essays'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Essays_in_Idleness.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Yoshida Kenko|Essays in Idleness]]''<br />(1332)<br />by Yoshida Kenko </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Anatomy_of_Melancholy.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Burton|The Anatomy of Melancholy]]''<br />(1621)<br />by Robert Burton </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Painter_of_Modern_Life.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Charles Baudelaire|The Painter of Modern Life]]''<br />(1863)<br />by Charles Baudelaire </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Complete_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Mark Twain|The Complete Essays]]''<br />by Mark Twain </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:in_Defense_of_Sanity.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays]]''<br />by G.K. Chesterton </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further Classic Essays''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Essays'' (1597) by Francis Bacon </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Complete Essays'' (1580) by Michel de Montaigne </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' (1750s) by Samuel Johnson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays'' (19th Century) by Charles Lamb </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Walden'' (1854) by Henry David Thoreau </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Essential Writings'' ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose'' (1891) by Oscar Wilde </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''Essays'' (1918) by Robert Louis Stevenson </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Modern Essays (English Language)'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Collection_of_Essays.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''A Collection of Essays''<br />( )<br />by George Orwell </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:810107-L.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Geography of the Imagination''<br />( )<br />by Guy Davenport </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:We_Tell_Ourselves_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live''<br />( )<br />by Joan Didion </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:712170.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''The Portable Dorothy Parker''<br />( )<br />by Dorothy Parker </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:an_Elemental_Thing.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''An Elemental Thing''<br />( )<br />by Eliot Weinberger </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further Modern Essays (English Language)''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Early and Later Essays'' ( ) by W.B. Yeats </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by | | colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Virginia Woolf </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by | | colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by T.S. Eliot </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Kokoro'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Essays'' ( ) by E.B. White </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Against Interpretation and Other Essays'' ( ) by Susan Sontag </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry'' ( ) by John Simon </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience'' ( ) by Aldous Huxley </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Mystery and Manners'' ( ) by Flannery O'Connor </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Literary Essays'' ( ) by Ezra Pound </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays'' ( ) by Anais Nin </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The | | colspan="5" |<small>''Portraits and Observations: The Essays'' ( ) by Truman Capote </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Best of Myles'' ( ) by Flann O'Brien </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''A Jacques Barzun Reader'' ( ) by Jacques Barzun </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Reflections on Exile'' ( ) by Edward W. Said </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Vintage Mencken'' ( ) by H.L. Mencken </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism'' ( ) by John Updike </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings'' ( ) by Angela Carter </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Fame & Folly: Essays'' ( ) by Cynthia Ozick </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Donald Richie Reader'' ( ) by Donald Richie </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Dreamer of Dreams'' ( ) by John Simon </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''On Histories and Stories'' ( ) by A.S. Byatt </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings'' ( ) by John Fowles </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Finding a Form'' ( ) by William H. Gass </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''An Elemental Thing'' ( ) by Eliot Weinberger </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Modern Essays (non-English Language)'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Selected_Non-Fictions.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Selected Non-Fictions''<br />( )<br />by Jorge Luis Borges </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Barthes_Reader.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''A Barthes Reader''<br />( )<br />by Roland Barthes </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Six Memos for the Next Millennium''<br />( )<br />by Italo Calvino</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Less_than_One.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Less Than One: Selected Essays''<br />( )<br />by Joseph Brodsky </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Campo_Santo.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Campo Santo''<br />( )<br />by W.G. Sebald </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Further Modern Essays (non-English Language)''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Visions of Excess'' ( ) by Georges Bataille </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Species of Spaces and Other Pieces'' ( ) by Georges Perec </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays'' ( ) by Raymond Queneau </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''Selected | | colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Essays'' ( ) by Zhou Zuoren </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Selected Bilingual Essays'' ( ) by Lin Yutang </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Illuminations: Essays'' ( ) by Walter Benjamin </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Selected Prose'' ( ) by Fernando Pessoa </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Myself With Others: Essays'' ( ) by Carlos Fuentes </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''The | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Labyrinth of Solitude'' ( ) by Octavio Paz </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''The Spirit of Prague'' ( ) by Ivan Klima </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Encounter: Essays'' ( ) by Milan Kundera </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays'' ( ) by Umberto Eco </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Anathemas and Admiraitions'' ( ) by E.M. Cioran </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Passing By: Selected Essays'' ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Other People's Trades'' ( ) by Primo Levi </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''Nobody's Home'' ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images''' | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Essays.jpg|100px]] | |||
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|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/> | | colspan="5" |<h2>Film</h2> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/> | |- | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Tarkovsky.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Andrey Tarkovsky|Sculpting in Time]]''<br />by Andrey Tarkovsky </small> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Elements_of_Cinema.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Stefan Sharff|The Elements of Cinema]]''<br />by Stefan Sharff </small> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_History_of_Narrative_Film.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:David A. Cook|A History of Narrative Film]]''<br />by David A. Cook </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Filmmakers_Eye.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Gustavo Mercado|The Filmmaker's Eye]]''<br />by Gustavo Mercado </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Walter Murch|In the Blink of an Eye]]''<br />by Walter Murch </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Film Books''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eric Barnow|Documentary]]'' by Eric Barnow </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sidney Lumet|Making Movies]]'' by Sidney Lumet </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Pippin|Fatalism in American Film Noir]]'' by Robert Pippin </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Pippin|Hollywood Westerns and American Myth]]'' by Robert Pippin </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Bresson|Notes on Cinematography]]'' by Robert Bresson </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ingmar Bergman|Images]]'' by Ingmar Bergman </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Andre Bazin|What is Cinema?]]'' by Andre Bazin </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alain Badiou|Cinema]]'' by Alain Badiou </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small>'' '' | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Giles Deleuze|Cinema 1: The Movement-Image]]'' by Giles Deleuze </small> | ||
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| colspan="5" |<small>() by </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h2>General Non-Fiction</h2> | |||
|- | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More General Non-Fiction''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The God Delusion'' ( ) by Richard Dawkins </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
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| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h2>History</h2> | |||
|- | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Histories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]''<br />(450-420s BCE)<br />by Herodotus</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Landmark_Thucydides.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:History of the Peloponnesian War|History of the Peloponnesian War]]''<br />(430s-410s BCE)<br />by Thucydides </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Hellenica|Hellenica]]''<br />(410s-360s BCE)<br />by Xenophon</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( ) </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Egypt''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt'' by Kathryn Bard</small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Ancient Egyptian Literature vol. 1, 2 & 3'' by Miriam Lichtheim </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Village Life in Ancient Egypt'' by A.G. MacDowell </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Celts''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Ancient Celts'' by Barry Cunliffe </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Greece''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History'' by Pomeroy, Burstein et al </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Athenian Constitution'' by Aristotle </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Greek City States'' by P. J. Rhodes </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Polis: An Introduction to the Greek City State'' by Mogens Herman Hansen </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest'' by Michel M. Austin </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome'' by Robin Lane Fox </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3.3 through 7.1'' </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Rome''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 7 through 14'' </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome (series)'' </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Rome: An Empire's Story'' by Greg Woolf </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Rome: From Village to Empire'' by Boatwright, Gargola et al </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Twelve Caesars'' by Suetonius </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''From the Gracchi to Nero'' by H.H. Scullard </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Later Roman Empire 284-602 AD'' by A. H. M. Jones </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Decline of the Ancient World'' by A. H. M. Jones </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Cambridge Medieval History vol. 1, 2, 4.1 and 4.2'' </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''New Cambridge Medieval History'' </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''China''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2'' by William Theodore de Bary </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Records of the Grand Historian: Qin and Han Dynasties'' by Sima Qian </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Search for Modern China'' by Jonathan D. Spence </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Buddhism in Chinese History'' by Arthur Wright </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Japan''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2'' by William Theodore de Bary </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present'' by Andrew Gordon </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''The Making of Modern Japan'' by Marius B. Jansen </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''USSR''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934'' by Sheila Fitzpatrick </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s'' by Sheila Fitzpatrick </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images''' | |||
|- | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Begin_bronze_age_v2.jpg|100px]] | |||
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| | | colspan="5" |<h2>Philosophy</h2> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:heraclitus.jpg|100px]]<small> Heraclitus </small> | ||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:socrates.jpg|100px]]<small> Socrates </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:plato.jpg|100px]]<small> Plato </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:aristotle.jpg|100px]]<small> Aristotle </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:seneca.jpg|100px]]<small> Seneca </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="7" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Pre-Socratics | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Greek Philosophy|Early Greek Philosophy]]'' by Various </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pythagorean|The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library]]'' by Kenneth Sylvan Guthre </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Heraclitus|The Art and Thought of Heraclitus]]'' by Charles H. Kahn </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Parmenides of Elea|Fragments]]'' by Parmenides of Elea</small> | ||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Xenophanes|Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments]]'' by David Gallop </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sophism|The Greek Sophists]]'' by John Dillon and Tania Gergel </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Empedocles|The Extant Fragments]]'' by Empedocles </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |On Socrates | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Trial of Socrates|The Trial of Socrates]]'' by I.F. Stone </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristophanes|The Clouds]] '' by Aristophanes </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>'' | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Plato|Plato and the Socratic Dialogue]]'' by Charles H. Kahn </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>'' | | colspan="4" |<small>''The Open Society and Its Enemies'' by Karl R. Popper </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''Plato on Knowledge and Forms'' by Gail Fine </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristotle|Aristotle]] '' by | | rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |On Aristotle | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristotle|Aristotle on Nature and Living Things]]'' by David M. Balme </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>'' | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Aristotle|Aristotle]] '' by Cristopher Shields </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''From Aristotle to Augustine'' by David Furley </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |By Aristotle | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nicomachean Ethics|The Nicomachean Ethics]] '' by Aristotle </small> | |||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Metaphysics (Aristotle)|Metaphysics ]] '' by Aristotle </small> | ||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]] '' by Aristotle </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rhetoric (Aristotle)|Rhetoric]] '' by Aristotle </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Politics (Aristotle)|Politics]] '' by Aristotle </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="2" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Cynicism | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diogenes|Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism ]] '' by Farrand Sayre </small> | |||
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| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Cynicism|The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy]]'' by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé </small> | ||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Epicureanism | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Epicureanism|The Cambridge's Companion to Epicureanism]] '' by James Warren </small> | |||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Epicurus|The Essential Epicurus]] '' by Eugene O'Connor </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lucretius|The Nature of Things]] '' by Lucretius </small> | ||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="3" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Stoicism | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Letters From a Stoic|Letters From a Stoic]] '' ( ) by Seneca </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Epictetus|Discourses and Selected Writings]] '' by Epictetus </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Marcus Aurelius|Meditations]] '' ( ) by Marcus Aurelius </small> | ||
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|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Sextus | | rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Skepticism | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sceptic|The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus]] '' by Norman Maccoll </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Sextus Empiricus|Outlines of Pyrrhonism]] '' by Sextus Empiricus </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:Neoplatonism | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gnoticism|Neoplatonism and Gnosticism]] '' ( ) by Richard T. Wallis </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Neoplatonism|The Neoplatonists]] '' ( ) by John Gregory </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Plotinus|The Enneads]] '' ( ) by Plotinus </small> | ||
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|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275260005616.jpg|100px]]<small> Ancient Western </small> | ||
|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275260709180.jpg|100px]]<small> Christian and Medieval </small> | ||
|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261036112.jpg|100px]]<small> Modern Part One </small> | ||
|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261563696.jpg|100px]]<small> Modern Part Two </small> | ||
|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261163720.jpg|100px]]<small> Scientific Revolution </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261396385.jpg|100px]]<small> German Idealism </small> | ||
|width="120" align="center"|[[File: | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261748849.jpg|100px]]<small> Existentialism </small> | ||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275261992670.jpg|100px]]<small> Analytic Part One </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262163246.jpg|100px]]<small> Analytic Part Two </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1275262414742.jpg|100px]]<small> Postmodernism </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1273452327985.jpg|100px]]<small> Feminism and Queer Theory </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Existential_Crisis.jpg|100px]]<small> Existential Crisis: A Guide </small> | |||
|} | |} | ||
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| colspan="5" |<h2>Politics</h2> | |||
|- | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>()<br />by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Politics''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The New Machiavelli|The New Machiavelli]]'' (1910) by H.G. Wells </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600'' by Maurizio Viroli</small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Anarchist Literature''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Emma Goldman|Anarchism and Other Essays]]'' (1910) by Emma Goldman </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Fringe Politics''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Political History''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Democracy in America|Democracy in America]]'' (1831) by Alexis de Tocqueville </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''By Political Parties''' | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images''' | |||
|- | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1361426772832.jpg|100px]] | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1406914990397.jpg|100px]] | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:1383014676779.jpg|100px]] <small> Right-Wing </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Left_Wing.jpg|100px]] <small> Left-Wing </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Legal_Philosophy_Guide.png|100px]] <small> Legal Philosophy </small> | |||
|} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<h2>Religion and Occult</h2> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Western Religion'''</h3> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Torah.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Torah|Torah]]''<br />( )<br />by Moshe Rabbenu (Moses Our Teacher/Rabbi)</small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The Holy Bible.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The_Bible|The Bible]]''<br />( )<br />by various authors</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File: .jpg|80px]]<br /><br /><small>( )<br />by </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Western Religion''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small> | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small> | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small> | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small> | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5|<small> | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>( ) by </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | width="120" align="center" |[[File:1393554877728.jpg|100px]]<small> Western Occult </small> | ||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Esoteric_Occult_Magick.jpg|100px]]<small> Esoteric/Occult/Magick Reading </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Hermeticism.jpg|100px]]<small> Hermeticism </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Catholicism.jpg|100px]]<small> Catholicism </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Christianity.png|100px]]<small> Christianity </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan= | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Eastern Religion'''</h3> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Upanishads.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Upanishads|Upanishads]]''</small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Daodejing.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dao De Jing|Daodejing]]''<br />by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Moon_on_a_Dewdrop.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dogen|Moon on a Dewdrop]]''<br />by Dogen </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Heart_Sutra.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Heart Sutra|Heart Sutra]]''<br />trans. by Red Pine </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Analects.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Confucius|The Analects]]''<br />of Confucius, trans. Raymond Dawson </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="8" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Primary Texts | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zen Master Keizan|Transmission of Light]] '' ( ) by Zen Master Keizan </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lankavatara Sutra|Lankavatara Sutra]] '' ( ) trans. by Red Pine </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Diamond Sutra|Diamond Sutra ]] '' ( ) trans. by Red Pine </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dhammapada|Dhammapada]] '' ( ) trans. by Gil Fronsdal </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bhagavad Gita|The Bhagavad Gita]] '' ( ) trans. by Eknath Easwaran </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Zhuangzi|Basic Writings]] '' ( ) of Zhuangzi </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Xunzi|Basic Writings]] '' ( ) of Xunzi </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Mencius|Writings]] '' ( ) of Mencius </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="4" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Literature, Poetry, etc | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Jorge Luis Borges|The Aleph and Other Stories]] '' ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:G.V. Desani |All About H. Hatter]] '' ( ) by G.V. Desani </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia:The | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Conference of the Birds|The Conference of the Birds]]'' (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Rubaiyat|The Rubaiyat]]'' (12th century) of Omar Khayyam </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | rowspan="5" style="background:#C6D9F0;" |Secondary & Tertiary Resources | ||
| colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fifty Eastern Thinkers]] '' ( ) by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson </small> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Meister Eckhart|Selected Writings]] '' ( ) of Meister Eckhart </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Self-Disclosure of God]] '' ( ) by William C. Chittick </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=4|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Leo Tolstoy |The Gospel in Brief]] '' ( ) by Leo Tolstoy </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan | | colspan="4" |<small>''[[wikipedia:D.T. Suzuki |Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings]] '' ( ) by D.T. Suzuki </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images''' | ||
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| width="120" align="center" |[[File:eatern_religion.png|100px]] <small> Mysticism </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Islam.jpg|100px]] <small> Islam </small> | |||
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Buddhism.jpg|100px]] <small> Buddhism </small> | |||
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|colspan=5|<h2>Travel Literature</h2> | |- | ||
| colspan="5" |<h2>Travel Literature</h2> | |||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|''' | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''General Travels'''</h3> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Travels_of_Ibn_Battuta.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Ibn Battutah|The Travels]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ibn Battutah | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Travels_of_Ibn_Battuta.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Ibn Battutah|The Travels]]''<br />( )<br />by Ibn Battutah </small> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Journals.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Journals]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>of Captain James Cook </small> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Journals.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Journals]]''<br />( )<br />of Captain James Cook </small> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Waugh_Abroad.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Collected Travel Writing]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Evelyn Waugh </small> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Waugh_Abroad.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Collected Travel Writing]]''<br />( )<br />by Evelyn Waugh </small> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Travels_With_Herodotus.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels With Herodotus]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Ryszard Kapuscinsk </small> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_With_Herodotus.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels With Herodotus]]''<br />( )<br />by Ryszard Kapuscinsk </small> | ||
|style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Way_of_the_World.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Way of the World]]''<br/> ( ) <br/>by Nicolas Bouvier </small> | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Way_of_the_World.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Way of the World]]''<br />( )<br />by Nicolas Bouvier </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''More General Travels''' | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More General Travels''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |From the Meadows of Gold ]]'' ( ) by Mas'udi </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Voyages and Discoveries]]'' ( ) by Richard Hakluyt </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |South: The Endurance Expedition]]'' ( ) by Ernest Shackleton </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Last Grain Race]]'' ( ) by Eric Newby </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Pecked to Death by Ducks]]'' ( ) by Tim Cahill </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It]]'' ( ) by Geoff Dyer </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in Europe'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Ibn_Fadlan_and_the_Land_of_Darkness.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness]]''<br />( )<br />by Ibn Fadlan </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Innocents_Abroad.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Innocents Abroad]]''<br />( )<br />by Mark Twain </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Black_Lamb_and_Grey_Falcoln.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Black Lamb and Grey Falcon]]''<br />( )<br />by Rebecca West </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Time_of_Gifts.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |A Time of Gifts]]''<br />( )<br />by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Rings_of_Saturn.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Rings of Saturn]]''<br />( )<br />by W.G. Sebald </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in Europe''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pausanias|Guide to Greece]]'' (2nd century) by Pausanias </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland]]'' ( ) by Samuel Johnson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Sentimental Journey]]'' ( ) by Laurence Sterne </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Letters from England]]'' ( ) by Voltaire </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Italian Journey: 1786:1788]]'' (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travel Pictures]]'' ( ) by Heinrich Heine </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Letters from Russia]]'' ( ) by Adolphe de Custine </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Winter Notes on Summer Impressions]]'' ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Sakhalin Island]]'' ( ) by Anton Chekhov </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |D.H. Lawrence and Italy]]'' ( ) by D.H. Lawrence </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese]]'' ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Silent Traveler in London]]'' ( ) by Chiang Lee </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Stones of Aran: Labyrinth]]'' ( ) by Tim Robinson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Colossus of Maroussi]]'' ( ) by Henry Miller </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere]]'' ( ) by Jan Morris </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |In Siberia]]'' ( ) by Colin Thubron </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Fado]]'' ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk </small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in Asia'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Travels_of_Marco_Polo.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Travels of Marco Polo|The Travels]]''<br />(13th century)<br />of Marco Polo </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Narrow_Road_to_the_Deep_North.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Oku no Hosomichi|Narrow Road to the Deep North]]''<br />(1689)<br />by Matsuo Basho </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Seven_Years_in_Tibet.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Seven Years in Tibet|Seven Years in Tibet]]''<br />(1951)<br />by Heinrich Harrer </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Arabian_Sands.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Arabian Sands|Arabian Sands]]''<br />(1959)<br />by Wilfred Thesiger </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Snow_Leopard.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Snow Leopard|The Snow Leopard]]''<br />1978)<br />by Peter Matthiessen </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in Asia''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:John Mandeville|The Travels]]'' ( ) of Sir John Mandeville </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels]]'' ( ) by Evliya Celebi </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Unbeaten Tracks in Japan]]'' ( ) by Isabella L. Bird </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Malay Archipelago]]'' ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina]]'' ( ) by Richard Burton</small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan]]'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Southern Gates of Arabia]]'' ( ) by Freya Stark </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |A | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Time to Keep Silence]]'' ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Barbarian in Asia]]'' ( ) by Henri Michaux </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China]]'' ( ) by David Kidd </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Hindoo Holiday]]'' ( ) by J.R. Ackerley </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush]]'' ( ) by Eric Newby </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Inland Sea]]'' ( ) by Donald Richie </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Lost Heart of Asia]]'' ( ) by Colin Thubron </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Riding the Iron Rooster]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Great Railway Bazaar]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |City of Djinns]]'' ( ) by William Dalrymple </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Paul Bowles|Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue]]'' (1963) by Paul Bowles </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in Africa'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_in_West_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in West Africa]]''<br />( )<br />by Mary Kingsley </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Out_of_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Out of Africa]]''<br />( )<br />by Isak Dinesen </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Green_Hills_of_Africa.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Green Hills of Africa]]''<br />( )<br />by Ernest Hemingway </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Journey_Without_Maps.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |Journey Without Maps]]''<br />( )<br />by Graham Greene </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Voices_of_Marrakesh.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |The Voices of Marrakesh ]]''<br />( )<br />by Elias Canetti </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in Africa''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in the Interior of Africa]]'' ( ) by Mungo Park </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Source of the Nile]]'' ( ) by Richard Burton </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Naturalist on the River Amazons]]'' ( ) by Henry Walter Bates </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Travels in the Congo]]'' ( ) by Andre Gide </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |North of South]]'' ( ) by Shiva Naipaul </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |African Laughter]]'' ( ) by Doris Lessing </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travels in the Americas'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_in_Alaska.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels in Alaska|Travels in Alaska]]''<br />( )<br />by John Muir </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_With_Charley.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Travels With Charley|Travels With Charley: In Search of America]]''<br />( )<br />by John Steinbeck </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Kon-Tiki.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Kon-Tiki|Kon-Tiki]]''<br />( )<br />by Thor Keyerdahl </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:in_Patagonia.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:In Patagonia|In Patagonia]]''<br />( )<br />by Bruce Chatwin </small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:an_African_in_Greenland.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia: |An African in Greenland]]''<br />( )<br />by Tete-Michel Kpomassie </small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travels in the Americas''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition]]'' ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America]]'' ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil]]'' ( ) by Jean de Lery </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: |The | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Journals]]'' ( ) of Lewis and Clark </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Oregon Trail]]'' ( ) by Francis Parkman </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |American Notes for General Circulation]]'' ( ) by Charles Dickens </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]]'' ( ) by Henry David Thoreau </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Roughing It]]'' ( ) by Mark Twain </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Two Years in the French West Indies]]'' ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Kabloona]]'' ( ) by Gontran de Poncins </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Here is New York]]'' ( ) by E.B. White </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Lawless Roads]]'' ( ) by Graham Greene </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |I See by My Outfit]]'' ( ) by Peter S. Beagle </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Coming in to the Country]]'' ( ) by John McPhee </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |Into the Wild]]'' ( ) by Bill Bryson </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |A Turn in the South]]'' ( ) by V.S. Naipaul </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia: |The Old Patagonian Express]]'' ( ) by Paul Theroux </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''The River Of Doubt'' ( ) by [[wikipedia: |Candice Millard]] </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |<h3>'''Travel Anthologies'''</h3> | ||
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| | | style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:a_Book_of_Traveller's_Tales.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''A Book of Traveler's Tales''<br />edited by Eric Newby </small> | ||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Colonial_American_Travel_Narratives.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Colonial American Travel Narratives''</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Travels_in_the_Reich.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany''</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Unsuitable_for_Ladies.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers''</small> | |||
| style="background:#C6D9F0;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Americans_in_Paris.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''Americans in Paris''</small> | |||
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|colspan=5| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''More Travel Anthologies''' | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Travel Writing 1700-1830'' </small> | ||
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|colspan=5|<small>'' | | colspan="5" |<small>''Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing'' </small> | ||
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|colspan=5 | | colspan="5" |<small>''Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing'' </small> | ||
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| | | colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images''' | ||
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Biographies
Autobiographies | ||||
Literary | ||||
Life on the Mississippi (1883) by Mark Twain |
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) by George Orwell |
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
Speak, Memory (1951) by Vladimir Nabokov |
A Moveable Feast (1964) by Ernest Hemingway |
More Literary Autobiographies | ||||
Diary (1010) of Lady Murasaki | ||||
Memoirs of My Life (1793) by Edward Gibbon | ||||
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey | ||||
Six Records of a Floating Life (1825) by Shen Fu | ||||
The Life of Henry Brulard (1836) by Stendhal | ||||
Ecce Homo (1888) by Friedrich Nietzsche | ||||
Pages From the Goncourt Journals (1896) by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt | ||||
A Country Doctor's Notebook (1918) by Mikhail Bulgakov | ||||
Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger | ||||
Diaries (1923) of Franz Kafka | ||||
Safe Conduct (1931) by Boris Pasternak | ||||
My Life and Hard Times (1933) by James Thurber | ||||
The Autobiography (1936) of G.K. Chesterton | ||||
Something of Myself (1937) by Rudyard Kipling | ||||
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell | ||||
The Autobiography (1938) of William Butler Yeats | ||||
A Journey Round My Skull (1939) by Frigyes Karinthy | ||||
If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi | ||||
Sisters by a River (1947) by Barbara Comyns | ||||
Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948 (1948) by Sandor Marai | ||||
On Overgrown Paths (1949) by Knut Hamsun | ||||
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951) by Nirad C. Chaudhuri | ||||
The Autobiography (1951) of William Carlos Williams | ||||
Childhood Years: A Memoir (1956) by Junichiro Tanizaki | ||||
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography (1964) by Evelyn Waugh | ||||
My Father and Myself (1968) by J.R. Ackerley | ||||
Diaries (1968) of Witold Gombrowicz | ||||
My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 (1973) by Harry Mathews | ||||
My Days (1974) by R.K. Narayan | ||||
Condundrum (1974) by Jan Morris | ||||
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi | ||||
Going Solo (1986) by Roald Dahl | ||||
Prisoner of Love (1986) by Jean Genet | ||||
My Life (1987) by Lyn Hejinian | ||||
The Great Fire of London (1989) by Jacques Roubaud | ||||
I, Asimov: A Memoir (1994) by Isaac Asimov | ||||
Living to Tell the Tale (2002) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | ||||
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion | ||||
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) by Haruki Murakami | ||||
Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (2008) by Donald Keene | ||||
My Struggle (2009) by Karl Ove Knausgård | ||||
Autobiography (2013) by Morrissey | ||||
Historical | ||||
The Pillow Book (1002) by Sei Shonagon |
The Autobiography (1790) of Benjamin Franklin |
Goodbye to All That (1929) by Robert Graves |
The Autobiography (1965) of Malcolm X |
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985) by Richard Feynman |
More Historical Autobiographies | ||||
Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (974) by Mother of Michitsuna | ||||
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (11th Century) by Lady Sarashina | ||||
The Confessions (1307) of Lady Nijo | ||||
The Baburnama: Memoirs (1530) of Babur | ||||
The Autobiography (1563) of Benvenuto Cellini | ||||
The Book of My Life (1576) by Girolamo Cardano | ||||
The Diary (1669) of Samuel Pepys | ||||
The Journal (1694) of George Fox | ||||
Story of My Life (1774) by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova | ||||
The Memoirs (1795) of Catherine the Great | ||||
Narrative of the Life (1845) of Frederick Douglass | ||||
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (1850) of Katsu Kokichi | ||||
The Autobiography (1886) of William Tecumseh Sherman | ||||
Personal Memoirs (1886) of Ulysses S. Grant | ||||
The Autobiography (1887) of Charles Darwin | ||||
The Autobiography (1899) of Yukichi Fukuzawa | ||||
The Letters (1891) by Vincent van Gogh | ||||
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1902) by Daniel Paul Schreber | ||||
The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller | ||||
My Childhood (1914) by Maxim Gorky | ||||
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T.E. Lawrence | ||||
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) by Siegfried Sassoon | ||||
The Secret Life (1942) of Salvador Dali | ||||
The Diary of a Young Girl (1944) by Anne Frank | ||||
Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin (1953) by Felix Yusupov | ||||
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (1954) by Frida Kahlo | ||||
Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee | ||||
Norman Rockwell (1960) by Norman Rockwell | ||||
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) by Carl Jung | ||||
The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson | ||||
Daybook: The Journey of an Artist (1982) by Anne Truitt | ||||
Naturalist (1994) by Edward O. Wilson | ||||
An Unquiet Mind (1995) by Kay Redfield Jamison | ||||
Mr Nice (1996) by Howard Marks | ||||
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001) by Oliver Sacks | ||||
Geisha: A Life (2002) by Mineko Iwasaki |
Books About Books | ||||
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Business | ||||
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham |
Security Analysis 5th Edition by Graham and Dodd |
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel |
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle |
Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller |
More Business Books | ||||
One Up on Wall Street (1989) by Peter Lynch | ||||
Beat the Street (2005) by Peter Lynch | ||||
Stocks for the Long Run 5th edition (1994) by Jeremy Sigel | ||||
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958) by Philip A. Fisher |
Essays | ||||
Classic Essays | ||||
Essays in Idleness (1332) by Yoshida Kenko |
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton |
The Painter of Modern Life (1863) by Charles Baudelaire |
The Complete Essays by Mark Twain |
In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays by G.K. Chesterton |
Further Classic Essays | ||||
Essays (1597) by Francis Bacon | ||||
The Complete Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne | ||||
Selected Essays (1750s) by Samuel Johnson | ||||
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays (19th Century) by Charles Lamb | ||||
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau | ||||
The Essential Writings ( ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||||
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (1891) by Oscar Wilde | ||||
Essays (1918) by Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
Modern Essays (English Language) | ||||
A Collection of Essays ( ) by George Orwell |
Geography of the Imagination ( ) by Guy Davenport |
We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live ( ) by Joan Didion |
The Portable Dorothy Parker ( ) by Dorothy Parker |
An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger |
Further Modern Essays (English Language) | ||||
Early and Later Essays ( ) by W.B. Yeats | ||||
Selected Essays ( ) by Virginia Woolf | ||||
Selected Essays ( ) by T.S. Eliot | ||||
Selected Essays ( ) by D.H. Lawrence | ||||
Kokoro ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
Essays ( ) by E.B. White | ||||
Against Interpretation and Other Essays ( ) by Susan Sontag | ||||
Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry ( ) by John Simon | ||||
Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience ( ) by Aldous Huxley | ||||
Mystery and Manners ( ) by Flannery O'Connor | ||||
Literary Essays ( ) by Ezra Pound | ||||
In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays ( ) by Anais Nin | ||||
Portraits and Observations: The Essays ( ) by Truman Capote | ||||
The Best of Myles ( ) by Flann O'Brien | ||||
A Jacques Barzun Reader ( ) by Jacques Barzun | ||||
Reflections on Exile ( ) by Edward W. Said | ||||
The Vintage Mencken ( ) by H.L. Mencken | ||||
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism ( ) by John Updike | ||||
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings ( ) by Angela Carter | ||||
Fame & Folly: Essays ( ) by Cynthia Ozick | ||||
The Donald Richie Reader ( ) by Donald Richie | ||||
Dreamer of Dreams ( ) by John Simon | ||||
On Histories and Stories ( ) by A.S. Byatt | ||||
Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings ( ) by John Fowles | ||||
Finding a Form ( ) by William H. Gass | ||||
An Elemental Thing ( ) by Eliot Weinberger | ||||
Modern Essays (non-English Language) | ||||
Selected Non-Fictions ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges |
A Barthes Reader ( ) by Roland Barthes |
Six Memos for the Next Millennium ( ) by Italo Calvino |
Less Than One: Selected Essays ( ) by Joseph Brodsky |
Campo Santo ( ) by W.G. Sebald |
Further Modern Essays (non-English Language) | ||||
Visions of Excess ( ) by Georges Bataille | ||||
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces ( ) by Georges Perec | ||||
Leters, Numbers, Forms: Essays ( ) by Raymond Queneau | ||||
Selected Essays ( ) by Zhou Zuoren | ||||
Selected Bilingual Essays ( ) by Lin Yutang | ||||
Illuminations: Essays ( ) by Walter Benjamin | ||||
The Selected Prose ( ) by Fernando Pessoa | ||||
Myself With Others: Essays ( ) by Carlos Fuentes | ||||
The Labyrinth of Solitude ( ) by Octavio Paz | ||||
The Spirit of Prague ( ) by Ivan Klima | ||||
Encounter: Essays ( ) by Milan Kundera | ||||
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays ( ) by Umberto Eco | ||||
Anathemas and Admiraitions ( ) by E.M. Cioran | ||||
Passing By: Selected Essays ( ) by Jerzy Kosinski | ||||
Other People's Trades ( ) by Primo Levi | ||||
Nobody's Home ( ) by Dubravka Ugresic | ||||
Recommendation images | ||||
Film | ||||
Sculpting in Time by Andrey Tarkovsky |
The Elements of Cinema by Stefan Sharff |
A History of Narrative Film by David A. Cook |
The Filmmaker's Eye by Gustavo Mercado |
In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch |
More Film Books | ||||
Documentary by Eric Barnow | ||||
Making Movies by Sidney Lumet | ||||
Fatalism in American Film Noir by Robert Pippin | ||||
Hollywood Westerns and American Myth by Robert Pippin | ||||
Notes on Cinematography by Robert Bresson | ||||
Images by Ingmar Bergman | ||||
What is Cinema? by Andre Bazin | ||||
Cinema by Alain Badiou | ||||
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image by Giles Deleuze | ||||
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The God Delusion ( ) by Richard Dawkins | ||||
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History | ||||
Histories (450-420s BCE) by Herodotus |
History of the Peloponnesian War (430s-410s BCE) by Thucydides |
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Egypt | ||||
An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt by Kathryn Bard | ||||
Ancient Egyptian Literature vol. 1, 2 & 3 by Miriam Lichtheim | ||||
Village Life in Ancient Egypt by A.G. MacDowell | ||||
Celts | ||||
The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe | ||||
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Greece | ||||
Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History by Pomeroy, Burstein et al | ||||
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle | ||||
The Greek City States by P. J. Rhodes | ||||
Polis: An Introduction to the Greek City State by Mogens Herman Hansen | ||||
The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest by Michel M. Austin | ||||
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox | ||||
The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3.3 through 7.1 | ||||
Rome | ||||
The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 7 through 14 | ||||
Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome (series) | ||||
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf | ||||
Rome: From Village to Empire by Boatwright, Gargola et al | ||||
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius | ||||
From the Gracchi to Nero by H.H. Scullard | ||||
The Later Roman Empire 284-602 AD by A. H. M. Jones | ||||
The Decline of the Ancient World by A. H. M. Jones | ||||
The Cambridge Medieval History vol. 1, 2, 4.1 and 4.2 | ||||
New Cambridge Medieval History | ||||
China | ||||
Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2 by William Theodore de Bary | ||||
Records of the Grand Historian: Qin and Han Dynasties by Sima Qian | ||||
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence | ||||
Buddhism in Chinese History by Arthur Wright | ||||
Japan | ||||
Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1 and 2 by William Theodore de Bary | ||||
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon | ||||
The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen | ||||
USSR | ||||
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 by Sheila Fitzpatrick | ||||
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick | ||||
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Philosophy | ||||
Heraclitus | Socrates | Plato | Aristotle | Seneca |
Pre-Socratics | Early Greek Philosophy by Various | |||
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library by Kenneth Sylvan Guthre | ||||
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus by Charles H. Kahn | ||||
Fragments by Parmenides of Elea | ||||
Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments by David Gallop | ||||
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon and Tania Gergel | ||||
The Extant Fragments by Empedocles | ||||
On Socrates | The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone | |||
The Clouds by Aristophanes | ||||
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue by Charles H. Kahn | ||||
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper | ||||
Plato on Knowledge and Forms by Gail Fine | ||||
On Aristotle | Aristotle on Nature and Living Things by David M. Balme | |||
Aristotle by Cristopher Shields | ||||
From Aristotle to Augustine by David Furley | ||||
By Aristotle | The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle | |||
Metaphysics by Aristotle | ||||
Poetics by Aristotle | ||||
Rhetoric by Aristotle | ||||
Politics by Aristotle | ||||
Cynicism | Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism by Farrand Sayre | |||
The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé | ||||
Epicureanism | The Cambridge's Companion to Epicureanism by James Warren | |||
The Essential Epicurus by Eugene O'Connor | ||||
The Nature of Things by Lucretius | ||||
Stoicism | Letters From a Stoic ( ) by Seneca | |||
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus | ||||
Meditations ( ) by Marcus Aurelius | ||||
Skepticism | The Greek Sceptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus by Norman Maccoll | |||
Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus | ||||
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ( ) by Richard T. Wallis | ||||
The Neoplatonists ( ) by John Gregory | ||||
The Enneads ( ) by Plotinus | ||||
Ancient Western | Christian and Medieval | Modern Part One | Modern Part Two | Scientific Revolution |
German Idealism | Existentialism | Analytic Part One | Analytic Part Two | Postmodernism |
Feminism and Queer Theory | Existential Crisis: A Guide |
Politics | ||||
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Politics | ||||
The New Machiavelli (1910) by H.G. Wells | ||||
From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics 1250-1600 by Maurizio Viroli | ||||
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Anarchist Literature | ||||
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) by Emma Goldman | ||||
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Fringe Politics | ||||
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Political History | ||||
Democracy in America (1831) by Alexis de Tocqueville | ||||
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Right-Wing | Left-Wing | Legal Philosophy |
Religion and Occult | ||||||
Western Religion | ||||||
Torah ( ) by Moshe Rabbenu (Moses Our Teacher/Rabbi) |
The Bible ( ) by various authors |
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Western Occult | Esoteric/Occult/Magick Reading | Hermeticism | Catholicism | Christianity | ||
Eastern Religion | ||||||
Upanishads |
Daodejing by Laozi, trans. by Edmund Ryden |
Moon on a Dewdrop by Dogen |
Heart Sutra trans. by Red Pine |
The Analects of Confucius, trans. Raymond Dawson | ||
Primary Texts | Transmission of Light ( ) by Zen Master Keizan | |||||
Lankavatara Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine | ||||||
Diamond Sutra ( ) trans. by Red Pine | ||||||
Dhammapada ( ) trans. by Gil Fronsdal | ||||||
The Bhagavad Gita ( ) trans. by Eknath Easwaran | ||||||
Basic Writings ( ) of Zhuangzi | ||||||
Basic Writings ( ) of Xunzi | ||||||
Writings ( ) of Mencius | ||||||
Literature, Poetry, etc | The Aleph and Other Stories ( ) by Jorge Luis Borges | |||||
All About H. Hatter ( ) by G.V. Desani | ||||||
The Conference of the Birds (12th century) by Farid ud-Din Attar | ||||||
The Rubaiyat (12th century) of Omar Khayyam | ||||||
Secondary & Tertiary Resources | Fifty Eastern Thinkers ( ) by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson | |||||
Selected Writings ( ) of Meister Eckhart | ||||||
The Self-Disclosure of God ( ) by William C. Chittick | ||||||
The Gospel in Brief ( ) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||||
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings ( ) by D.T. Suzuki | ||||||
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Mysticism | Islam | Buddhism |
Travel Literature | ||||
General Travels | ||||
The Travels ( ) by Ibn Battutah |
The Journals ( ) of Captain James Cook |
Collected Travel Writing ( ) by Evelyn Waugh |
Travels With Herodotus ( ) by Ryszard Kapuscinsk |
The Way of the World ( ) by Nicolas Bouvier |
More General Travels | ||||
From the Meadows of Gold ( ) by Mas'udi | ||||
Voyages and Discoveries ( ) by Richard Hakluyt | ||||
South: The Endurance Expedition ( ) by Ernest Shackleton | ||||
The Last Grain Race ( ) by Eric Newby | ||||
Pecked to Death by Ducks ( ) by Tim Cahill | ||||
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It ( ) by Geoff Dyer | ||||
Travels in Europe | ||||
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness ( ) by Ibn Fadlan |
The Innocents Abroad ( ) by Mark Twain |
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ( ) by Rebecca West |
A Time of Gifts ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor |
The Rings of Saturn ( ) by W.G. Sebald |
More Travels in Europe | ||||
Guide to Greece (2nd century) by Pausanias | ||||
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland ( ) by Samuel Johnson | ||||
A Sentimental Journey ( ) by Laurence Sterne | ||||
Letters from England ( ) by Voltaire | ||||
Italian Journey: 1786:1788 (1788) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ||||
Travel Pictures ( ) by Heinrich Heine | ||||
Letters from Russia ( ) by Adolphe de Custine | ||||
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions ( ) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
Sakhalin Island ( ) by Anton Chekhov | ||||
D.H. Lawrence and Italy ( ) by D.H. Lawrence | ||||
Mani: Travels in the Souther Peloponnese ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor | ||||
The Silent Traveler in London ( ) by Chiang Lee | ||||
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth ( ) by Tim Robinson | ||||
The Colossus of Maroussi ( ) by Henry Miller | ||||
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere ( ) by Jan Morris | ||||
In Siberia ( ) by Colin Thubron | ||||
Fado ( ) by Andrzej Stasiuk | ||||
Travels in Asia | ||||
The Travels (13th century) of Marco Polo |
Narrow Road to the Deep North (1689) by Matsuo Basho |
Seven Years in Tibet (1951) by Heinrich Harrer |
Arabian Sands (1959) by Wilfred Thesiger |
The Snow Leopard 1978) by Peter Matthiessen |
More Travels in Asia | ||||
The Travels ( ) of Sir John Mandeville | ||||
An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels ( ) by Evliya Celebi | ||||
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ( ) by Isabella L. Bird | ||||
The Malay Archipelago ( ) by Alfred Russel Wallace | ||||
A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina ( ) by Richard Burton | ||||
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
The Southern Gates of Arabia ( ) by Freya Stark | ||||
A Time to Keep Silence ( ) by Patrick Leigh Fermor | ||||
A Barbarian in Asia ( ) by Henri Michaux | ||||
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China ( ) by David Kidd | ||||
Hindoo Holiday ( ) by J.R. Ackerley | ||||
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush ( ) by Eric Newby | ||||
The Inland Sea ( ) by Donald Richie | ||||
The Lost Heart of Asia ( ) by Colin Thubron | ||||
Riding the Iron Rooster ( ) by Paul Theroux | ||||
The Great Railway Bazaar ( ) by Paul Theroux | ||||
City of Djinns ( ) by William Dalrymple | ||||
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963) by Paul Bowles | ||||
Travels in Africa | ||||
Travels in West Africa ( ) by Mary Kingsley |
Out of Africa ( ) by Isak Dinesen |
Green Hills of Africa ( ) by Ernest Hemingway |
Journey Without Maps ( ) by Graham Greene |
The Voices of Marrakesh ( ) by Elias Canetti |
More Travels in Africa | ||||
Travels in the Interior of Africa ( ) by Mungo Park | ||||
Source of the Nile ( ) by Richard Burton | ||||
The Naturalist on the River Amazons ( ) by Henry Walter Bates | ||||
Travels in the Congo ( ) by Andre Gide | ||||
North of South ( ) by Shiva Naipaul | ||||
African Laughter ( ) by Doris Lessing | ||||
Travels in the Americas | ||||
Travels in Alaska ( ) by John Muir |
Travels With Charley: In Search of America ( ) by John Steinbeck |
Kon-Tiki ( ) by Thor Keyerdahl |
In Patagonia ( ) by Bruce Chatwin |
An African in Greenland ( ) by Tete-Michel Kpomassie |
More Travels in the Americas | ||||
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition ( ) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca | ||||
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America ( ) by Alexander von Humboldt | ||||
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil ( ) by Jean de Lery | ||||
The Journals ( ) of Lewis and Clark | ||||
The Oregon Trail ( ) by Francis Parkman | ||||
American Notes for General Circulation ( ) by Charles Dickens | ||||
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ( ) by Henry David Thoreau | ||||
Roughing It ( ) by Mark Twain | ||||
Two Years in the French West Indies ( ) by Lafcadio Hearn | ||||
Kabloona ( ) by Gontran de Poncins | ||||
Here is New York ( ) by E.B. White | ||||
The Lawless Roads ( ) by Graham Greene | ||||
I See by My Outfit ( ) by Peter S. Beagle | ||||
Coming in to the Country ( ) by John McPhee | ||||
Into the Wild ( ) by Bill Bryson | ||||
A Turn in the South ( ) by V.S. Naipaul | ||||
The Old Patagonian Express ( ) by Paul Theroux | ||||
The River Of Doubt ( ) by Candice Millard | ||||
Travel Anthologies | ||||
A Book of Traveler's Tales edited by Eric Newby |
Colonial American Travel Narratives |
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany |
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travelers |
Americans in Paris |
More Travel Anthologies | ||||
Travel Writing 1700-1830 | ||||
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing | ||||
Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing | ||||
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