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  • For the New Intellectual
    by Ayn Rand
    ISBN 0451163087 (0-451-16308-7)
    Softcover, New Amer Library

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    Ayn Rand challenges the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "guilt", panic and despair they created. She was the proponent of a new moral philosophy - an ethic of rational self-interest - that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this new morality are set forth in this book. [via]

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  • Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
    ISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
    Softcover, Signet

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    The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]

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  • Habits of the Heart
    by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton
    ISBN 0520053885 (0-520-05388-5)
    Hardcover, University of California Press

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    Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book's continuing relevance for a time when the country's racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It's thoroughly readable, theologically respectful, and academically irreproachable. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]

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  • Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
    by Robert N. Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Richard Madsen, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton
    ISBN 0520205685 (0-520-20568-5)
    Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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    Habits of the Heart is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how religion contributes to and detracts from America's common good. An instant classic upon publication in 1985, it was reissued in 1996 with a new introduction describing the book's continuing relevance for a time when the country's racial and class divisions are being continually healed and ripped open again by religious people. Habits of the Heart describes the social significance of faiths ranging from "Sheilaism" (practiced by a California nurse named Sheila) to conservative Christianity. It's thoroughly readable, theologically respectful, and academically irreproachable. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]

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  • Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte, Willis Hall, David Cuzik
    ISBN 8429449116 (84-294-4911-6)
    Softcover, Alfaguara Infantil

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    Etwas stärkere Gebrauchsspuren; [via]

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  • Juan Salvador Gaviota
    by Richard Bach
    ISBN 846661639X (84-666-1639-X)
    Softcover, Ediciones B

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    Una de las mas bellas fábulas escritas por estos tiempos ha sido Juan Salvador Gaviota. Richard Bach ha vendido mas de 30 millones de copias de esta producción. El valor de la libertad, de la amistad, el despego de lo material; tales son los elementos que forman esta fábula. [via]

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  • Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Peter Fish, Ken Kesey
    ISBN 0812034333 (0-8120-3433-3)
    Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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    A guide to reading "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]

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  • Mundo Feliz
    by Aldous Huxley
    ISBN 8497594258 (84-9759-425-8)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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    Un mundo feliz es posiblemente la novela mas leida de Huxley, y su influencia es evidente tanto en buena parte de la novela de ciencia ficcion de calidad como en las novelas filosoficas. Presenta un mundo en el que el Estado controla hasta el mas minimo detalle de la vida de los individuos, a los que mantiene en una ignorancia, producto de un depurado lavado de cerebro. Mas tarde el autor escribiria Nueva visita a un mundo feliz, donde analizaria lo que habia escrito anos antes y sacaria conclusiones muy distintas sobre el destino de la humanidad. [via]

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  • Schuster, Eunice M.: Native American Anarchism
    Native American Anarchism
    by Eunice M. Schuster
    ISBN 1893626210 (1-893626-21-0)
    Softcover, Breakout Productions Inc

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  • Schuster, Eunice Minette: Native American Anarchism: A Study of Left Wing American Individualism
    Native American Anarchism: A Study of Left Wing American Individualism
    by Eunice Minette Schuster
    ISBN 0404056245 (0-404-05624-5)
    Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc

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  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
    ISBN 0140043128 (0-14-004312-8)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    "Powerful, poetic realism...makes the tired old subject of life in a mental hospital into an absorbing Orwellian microcosm of all humanity."- Life . An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This Viking Critical Library edition is accompanied by essays, discussion topics, a chronology, and a bibliography. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. [via]

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  • The Unconscious Civilization
    by John Ralston Saul
    ISBN 0684871084 (0-684-87108-4)
    Softcover, Free Pr

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    In this intellectual tour de force, Saul argues that the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling "corporatist" structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the segmentation of society into competing interest groups and ethnic blocks. [via]

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  • Rand, Ayn: The Virtue of Selfishness
    The Virtue of Selfishness
    by Ayn Rand
    ISBN 0451163931 (0-451-16393-1)
    Softcover, New Amer Library

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  • Virtue Selfishness
    ISBN 0451173988 (0-451-17398-8)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    Ayn Rand, author of "The Fountainhead" was the founder of "Objectivism", an extremely right wing ideology which focuses on selfishness. "The Virtue of Selfishness" is the key philosophy in Ayn Rand's writings. [via]

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  • We the Living
    by Ayn Rand
    ISBN 0451187849 (0-451-18784-9)
    Softcover, New Amer Library

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    First published in 1936, this inspiring and defiant novel by the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged has sold nearly two million copies. Portraying the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives, We the Living is Ayn Rand's challenge to the modern conscience.
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  • Wuthering Heights
    by Emily Brontë
    ISBN 3895082082 (3-89508-208-2)
    Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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    "Wuthering Heights" seems bafflingly unlike other novels yet constantly speaks to popular imagination. This edition for students and teachers engages with some of the key issues in contemporary critical theory. [via]

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    • Schmidt, Johann Kasper: Der Einzige Und Sein Eigentum
      Der Einzige Und Sein Eigentum
      by Johann Kasper Schmidt
      ISBN 3150030579 (3-15-003057-9)
      Hardcover, Reclam

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    • Der Steppenwolf
      by Hermann Hesse
      ISBN 3518366750 (3-518-36675-0)
      Softcover, Suhrkamp Verlag

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      Nur für Verrückte?
      Als Der Steppenwolf vor siebzig Jahren erschien, wurde er von vielen angegriffen, von anderen begeistert aufgenommen. Vierzig Jahre später, in den bewegten sechziger Jahren, wurde er zum Kultbuch einer Generation. Und auch heute, auf der Schwelle zum neuen Jahrtausend, begeistert er junge Leser, die in Harry Haller den Seelenverwandten erkennen.

      Harry Haller, der Steppenwolf, leidet an seiner Zerissenheit, empfindet halb als Mensch, halb als Wolf. Er sehnt sich nach Zugehörigkeit, nach Harmonie und Liebe, will aber auch unabhängig und frei sein und verabscheut alles Normale. Dieser Zwiespalt führt ihn immer tiefer in eine existenzielle Krise, in der er Selbstmord als einzigen Ausweg sieht. Doch Hermine, eine Prostituierte, und das Magische Theater helfen ihm, sich selbst zu erkennen und das Leben leichter zu nehmen.

      Der Steppenwolf ist so vielschichtig, daß man immer wieder neue Aspekte entdecken kann. Als ich ihn vor zwanzig Jahren kennenlernte, stand für mich die Einsamkeit und die Ablehnung der verlogenen Bürgerlichkeit im Vordergrund. Das Lebensgefühl des Unverstandenen, der seine Ideale lebt, war mir vertraut. Dem seichten Alltag die extremen Gefühle vorzuziehen, schien auch mir erstrebenswert. Nicht lauwarm, sondern heiß und kalt. Damit spricht Hesse noch immer die Jugend an.

      Heute lese und verstehe ich ihn anders. Der Mensch, der sich das Leben so schwer macht, tut mir leid, weil er nicht merkt, daß er ebenso borniert ist wie die, von denen er sich unterscheiden will. Er nimmt sich selbst zu ernst, rennt Idealen von Schönheit und Menschlichkeit hinterher und verachtet dabei die Menschen. Erst im Magischen Theater werden ihm die Augen geöffnet.

      Der Steppenwolf ist in Hesses Leben und Werk ein Wendepunkt. Eine langjährige Krise kommt zum Höhepunkt und wird überwunden -- durch das Lachen über sich selbst. Für mich ist an diesem Roman faszinierend, daß er "mitwächst" und mir auch nach zwanzig Jahren noch etwas zu sagen hat. Der Steppenwolf ist siebzig Jahre alt und noch immer jung. --Roswitha Schmaltz [via]

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