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A Secular Age

od Charles Margrave Taylor • 2007

Modern unbelief required building a new self, a new society, and a new kind of time.

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💡 History Of Ideas ⛪ Secularization Theory 🌫️ Disenchantment 🧠 Social Imaginaries 🧍 Modern Self

A Secular Age

Modern unbelief required building a new self, a new society, and a new kind of time.

od Charles Margrave Taylor 2007 874 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

💡 History Of Ideas ⛪ Secularization Theory 🌫️ Disenchantment 🧠 Social Imaginaries 🧍 Modern Self

The Shah

od Abbas Milani • 2007

A CIA-backed restoration, a forced march into modernity, and the revolution it made inevitable.

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🇮🇷 Iranian History 🧊 Cold War History 🛢️ Oil And Geopolitics 👑 Authoritarian Rule 🌐 Foreign Intervention

The Shah

A CIA-backed restoration, a forced march into modernity, and the revolution it made inevitable.

od Abbas Milani 2007 496 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🇮🇷 Iranian History 🧊 Cold War History 🛢️ Oil And Geopolitics 👑 Authoritarian Rule 🌐 Foreign Intervention

The Course of Love

od Alain de Botton • 2016

An architect and surveyor marry in Edinburgh, certain love should feel easy. It isn't.

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🔮 Philosophical Fiction 💍 Marriage Portrait 💫 Romantic Idealism 💔 Marital Infidelity 🛋️ Therapy And Healing

The Course of Love

An architect and surveyor marry in Edinburgh, certain love should feel easy. It isn't.

od Alain de Botton 2016 240 stran

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49 000+ hodnocení

🔮 Philosophical Fiction 💍 Marriage Portrait 💫 Romantic Idealism 💔 Marital Infidelity 🛋️ Therapy And Healing

Existentialism

od Thomas R. Flynn • 2006

Your choices are all you are: a brief guide to the philosophy of radical freedom.

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🧠 Modern Existentialism 🗽 Radical Freedom 🎭 Authenticity ✨ Meaning-Making 😰 Existential Anxiety

Existentialism

Your choices are all you are: a brief guide to the philosophy of radical freedom.

od Thomas R. Flynn 2006 144 stran

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🧠 Modern Existentialism 🗽 Radical Freedom 🎭 Authenticity ✨ Meaning-Making 😰 Existential Anxiety

Entanglement

od Amir D. Aczel • 2002

Einstein rejected instantaneous quantum links; he lost. The proof that reality is nonlocal is in.

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⚛️ Quantum Physics 🔬 Modern Physics 📖 History Of Physics 🔗 Quantum Entanglement 🤯 Quantum Weirdness

Entanglement

Einstein rejected instantaneous quantum links; he lost. The proof that reality is nonlocal is in.

od Amir D. Aczel 2002 304 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

⚛️ Quantum Physics 🔬 Modern Physics 📖 History Of Physics 🔗 Quantum Entanglement 🤯 Quantum Weirdness

A World Undone

od G.J. Meyer • 2006

One assassination, a web of rigid plans, and leaders who couldn't stop what they started.

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💣 Trench Warfare 📜 Great War Origins 💢 Diplomatic Failures 🔫 Military History 🇪🇺 Pre-War Europe

A World Undone

One assassination, a web of rigid plans, and leaders who couldn't stop what they started.

od G.J. Meyer 2006 704 stran

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9 000+ hodnocení

💣 Trench Warfare 📜 Great War Origins 💢 Diplomatic Failures 🔫 Military History 🇪🇺 Pre-War Europe

Rein Me In

od Kayla Grosse • 2023

A grieving barrel racer returns to Texas and a cowboy who is quietly drowning.

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🐴 Cowboy Romance 🤠 Small Town Texas 💪 Plus Size Heroine 🩹 Healing Together 🏡 Family Ranch

Rein Me In

A grieving barrel racer returns to Texas and a cowboy who is quietly drowning.

od Kayla Grosse 2023 324 stran

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🐴 Cowboy Romance 🤠 Small Town Texas 💪 Plus Size Heroine 🩹 Healing Together 🏡 Family Ranch

Philosophy in the Modern World

od Anthony Kenny • 2007

The century when philosophy stopped asking what exists and started asking what words mean.

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📜 History Of Philosophy 🕰️ Modern Philosophy 🔍 Analytic Philosophy 🗣️ Linguistic Turn 💬 Philosophy Of Language

Philosophy in the Modern World

The century when philosophy stopped asking what exists and started asking what words mean.

od Anthony Kenny 2007 368 stran

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📜 History Of Philosophy 🕰️ Modern Philosophy 🔍 Analytic Philosophy 🗣️ Linguistic Turn 💬 Philosophy Of Language

Not Another Love Song

od Julie Soto • 2024

A struggling violinist wins first chair under the glare of a cellist who humiliated her.

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🎻 Orchestral Romance 🎭 Rivals To Lovers ⭐ Grumpy X Sunshine 🔥 Steamy Romance 💔 Angsty Romance

Not Another Love Song

A struggling violinist wins first chair under the glare of a cellist who humiliated her.

od Julie Soto 2024 384 stran

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🎻 Orchestral Romance 🎭 Rivals To Lovers ⭐ Grumpy X Sunshine 🔥 Steamy Romance 💔 Angsty Romance

Lives of the Artists

od Calvin Tomkins • 2008

When art has no fixed rules, the artist's life becomes the work. Ten portraits.

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🎨 Contemporary Art ✍️ Art Criticism 💰 Art And Commerce 🎭 Artistic Identity ⚡ Art And Provocation

Lives of the Artists

When art has no fixed rules, the artist's life becomes the work. Ten portraits.

od Calvin Tomkins 2008 272 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🎨 Contemporary Art ✍️ Art Criticism 💰 Art And Commerce 🎭 Artistic Identity ⚡ Art And Provocation

The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

od Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1987

How the world's first globalization, built on empire and mass politics, made a world war inevitable.

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🕰️ Belle éPoque 🔨 Marxist History 🗺️ Imperialism Studies 📊 Economic History 🏴 Nationalism Studies

The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

How the world's first globalization, built on empire and mass politics, made a world war inevitable.

od Eric J. Hobsbawm 1987 405 stran

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🕰️ Belle éPoque 🔨 Marxist History 🗺️ Imperialism Studies 📊 Economic History 🏴 Nationalism Studies

Missing You

od Harlan Coben • 2014

An NYPD detective discovers her vanished ex on a dating site, where lonely hearts become prey.

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🚔 Police Procedural 📁 Cold Case 💻 Online Deception 🕵️ Haunted Detective 🐈 Cat And Mouse

Missing You

An NYPD detective discovers her vanished ex on a dating site, where lonely hearts become prey.

od Harlan Coben 2014 399 stran

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🚔 Police Procedural 📁 Cold Case 💻 Online Deception 🕵️ Haunted Detective 🐈 Cat And Mouse

Blood and Iron

od Katja Hoyer • 2021

Three wars made Germany. The peace that followed was a 47-year countdown to disaster.

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🏰 Imperial Germany 🤝 German Unification ♟️ Realpolitik 🧱 Nation Building ⚔️ Militarism

Blood and Iron

Three wars made Germany. The peace that followed was a 47-year countdown to disaster.

od Katja Hoyer 2021 256 stran

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🏰 Imperial Germany 🤝 German Unification ♟️ Realpolitik 🧱 Nation Building ⚔️ Militarism

The Erasers

od Alain Robbe-Grillet • 1953

A detective hunts a killer through a maze of canals, unaware the victim faked his death.

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🏛️ Nouveau Roman 🪦 Faked Death 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🕵️ Conspiracy And Paranoia 📋 Bureaucratic Maze

The Erasers

A detective hunts a killer through a maze of canals, unaware the victim faked his death.

od Alain Robbe-Grillet 1953 256 stran

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🏛️ Nouveau Roman 🪦 Faked Death 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🕵️ Conspiracy And Paranoia 📋 Bureaucratic Maze

Shutout

od Avery Keelan • 2023

After a masked hookup, a goalie's anonymous partner becomes his roommate and teammate's sister.

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🏒 Hockey Romance 👫 Brother's Teammate 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤫 Secret Relationship 🌙 One Night Stand

Shutout

After a masked hookup, a goalie's anonymous partner becomes his roommate and teammate's sister.

od Avery Keelan 2023 336 stran

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🏒 Hockey Romance 👫 Brother's Teammate 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤫 Secret Relationship 🌙 One Night Stand

The Consequences of Modernity

od Anthony Giddens • 1988

Modernity is not ending. It is a runaway machine gaining speed, and no one is steering.

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🏛️ Modernity Theory ⏳ Late Modernity ⚠️ Risk Society 🌐 Globalization Studies 🤝 Trust And Modernity

The Consequences of Modernity

Modernity is not ending. It is a runaway machine gaining speed, and no one is steering.

od Anthony Giddens 1988 200 stran

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🏛️ Modernity Theory ⏳ Late Modernity ⚠️ Risk Society 🌐 Globalization Studies 🤝 Trust And Modernity

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

od Steven Loyal • 2003

Giddens built his sociology around individual freedom. It was always politics dressed as theory.

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🧠 Social Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 🎯 Social Action 🏙️ Modernity Critique 📜 Intellectual History

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

Giddens built his sociology around individual freedom. It was always politics dressed as theory.

od Steven Loyal 2003 256 stran

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🧠 Social Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 🎯 Social Action 🏙️ Modernity Critique 📜 Intellectual History

The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

od Harvey Claflin Mansfield • 2026

Reason promised to liberate us. It delivered a chain of necessity we forged ourselves.

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🏛️ Western Political Thought 📜 Modern Political Theory 📚 Intellectual History 🔬 Rationalism In Politics ⛓️ Freedom And Necessity

The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

Reason promised to liberate us. It delivered a chain of necessity we forged ourselves.

od Harvey Claflin Mansfield 2026 336 stran

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33 hodnocení

🏛️ Western Political Thought 📜 Modern Political Theory 📚 Intellectual History 🔬 Rationalism In Politics ⛓️ Freedom And Necessity

Francis Fukuyama and the End of History

od Howard Williams • 1997

Hegel, Kant, Marx, and the claim that liberal democracy is the last political idea.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🌍 Philosophy Of History ⚖️ Liberal Democracy 🧠 Continental Philosophy

Francis Fukuyama and the End of History

Hegel, Kant, Marx, and the claim that liberal democracy is the last political idea.

od Howard Williams 1997 203 stran

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🌍 Philosophy Of History ⚖️ Liberal Democracy 🧠 Continental Philosophy

Twice in a Blue Moon

od Christina Lauren • 2019

Her first love sold her secret to the tabloids. Now he wrote the film she is starring in.

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💕 Second Chance Romance 🎬 Hollywood Romance ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 First Love Betrayal 🔒 Forced Proximity

Twice in a Blue Moon

Her first love sold her secret to the tabloids. Now he wrote the film she is starring in.

od Christina Lauren 2019 358 stran

3.62

90 000+ hodnocení

💕 Second Chance Romance 🎬 Hollywood Romance ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 First Love Betrayal 🔒 Forced Proximity

Babymoon or Bust

od Ava Hunter • 2023

A one-night stand, a pregnancy, a babymoon. The stranger at the resort is a grieving widower.

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🍼 Surprise Pregnancy 🖤 Grieving Widower 🏔️ Alaskan Small Town 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🌙 One Night Stand

Babymoon or Bust

A one-night stand, a pregnancy, a babymoon. The stranger at the resort is a grieving widower.

od Ava Hunter 2023 382 stran

3.74

18 000+ hodnocení

🍼 Surprise Pregnancy 🖤 Grieving Widower 🏔️ Alaskan Small Town 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🌙 One Night Stand

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