Essays, Hardcover

Reducere. The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England's most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central ...

Reducere. Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to...

"The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence." --XIV Dalai Lama The words of the Dalai Lama resonate within each of us, empowe...

Reducere. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in Ame...

DescriptionAn urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numer...

Reducere. Featuring the classic essay The Golden Key, this unabridged edition also includes: The Hidden Power - Different People See Different Worlds - Free ...

Questions of identity and individual experience are addressed by Virgina Woolf in this superb collection The Notting Hill Editions Classic Collecti...

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their ...

DescriptionA collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including "Nature, " "Self-Reliance, " "Love, " and "Art." Ral...

Instant New York Times Bestseller "Truly, there's no shame in taking a break from books during the pandemic. But if you're feeling ready to reach o...

Reducere. Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau's popular essays included here: Civil Disobed...

Reducere. "A celebration of the adventure that is other people." --Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston,...

DescriptionA sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples,...

Reducere. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, phi...

Reducere. In his debut essay collection, award-winning poet Jaswinder Bolina meditates on "how race, " as he puts it, "becomes metaphysical": the cumulative ...

"Lorde's words -- on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice -- burn with relevance 25 years after her death." -- O, The Oprah Magaz...

Do you want to read What is Man? If so then keep reading...In "What is Man?" Mark Twain raises numerous thought-provoking questions about mankind a...

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship ...

Reducere. Media studies has been catching up with McLuhan over the last 50 years. These essays are drawn from the most productive quarter-century of his care...

DescriptionFormer Senior Editor for Gothamist Rebecca Fishbein's adult life has been a dramatic reflection of New York media itself--constantly evo...

Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Bar...

DescriptionBest-known for his corporate brand logos and art direction, Paul Rand (1914-1986) transformed commercial art from craft to profession, i...

The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition....

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

Today's man may know how to dress with style, but does he know how to behave? Though the rules of civility have changed along with the world, Men a...

DescriptionFrom YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in the vein of We Are Never Meeting in R...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of Book Riot's "The Best Books We Read in October 2018" "To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simp...

DescriptionIn the words of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Sappho was "simply nothing less--as she is certainly nothing more--than the...

The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the cr...

*A Book Riot Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2021* The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching in...

Reducere. I believe in dignity in all things, and it goes both ways, and while that attitude is modeled, the why-what-how has first to be shown, taught, and ...

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened afte...

Reducere. "In She Memes Well, Quinta gives more than a peek behind the curtain. She invites us in, lets us poke around and offers a balm for our aching souls...

Reducere. A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intract...

Reducere. DescriptionOver the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity's continuing importance in contemporary culture. Hi...

Reducere. Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionists As Ruth Bader Gins...

After Ludwig von Mises's death in 1973, his wife, Margit von Mises, went through his unpublished and out-of-print essays and selected twenty-one of...

Reducere. From award-winning TV comedy writer Kari Lizer (The New Adventures of Old Christine) comes a collection of hilarious essays about the challenges of...

Reducere. From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, an...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, ponder...

Reducere. "Sister Outsider's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone." -Essence Presenting the essential writings...

Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical--Hillel Halkin's finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish cul...

Reducere. Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' s...

The future of the world's ice is at a critical juncture marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers...

Reducere. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. ...

Reducere. Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth cl...

The city of Americus--seat of Sumter County, Georgia--has a rich past that stretches back hundreds of years. The people and events that shaped Amer...

From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a ...

The Sound of the Shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring th...

Reducere. The fifteen essays in this collection, first published in 1947, treat a variety of economic, social, political, and philosophical problems and were...

Reducere. Cheryl Trench is a national treasure tucked within the pages of a small town paper. Her near half century of musings and missives are witty, insigh...

Reducere. An O, The Oprah Magazine LGBTQ Book Changing the Literary LandscapeA gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today's queer heroes--f...

Reducere. Two decades of living is not nothing. It is everything we know.In Twenty-One Years Young: Essays, author Amy Dong examines the uncertainty, absurdi...

Reducere. Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important book...

Reducere. One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bor...

In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything...

Reducere. Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial just...

Reducere. DescriptionA selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia DavisLydia Davis is a writer whose originality, in...

Reducere. DescriptionAs this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes n...

Reducere. Rationalism in Politics established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded coll...

In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars ...

Reducere. Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most gr...

Reducere. The apostle Paul instructed Timothy to "preach the word . . . Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching" (2 Tim. 4: 2). This in...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has beco...

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and...

From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News, " a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, findin...

Reducere. For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Abbi JacobsonFrom the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...