18 books like Discipline and Punish

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A rap on race Margaret Mead · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate (From the introduction) On August 25, 1970, anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin met for the first time to have three recorded conversations, totaling more than seven hours of tape that, once transcribed, would compose the book, A Rap on Race (1971). The Mead and Baldwin Book is an amazing account documenting the meeting of two of the twentieth century's paradigmatic thinkers and… Shares: Social, Essays, Philosophy, History

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant's philosophy, the "Transcendental Analytic" of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so… Shares: Essays, Philosophy

Poverty and progress Stephan Thernstrom · 1800 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Social Science, Histoire, Essays, History

Coach Art Williams · 2006 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself! Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said… Shares: Histoire, History

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ Александр Солженицын · 1970 · ★ 4.6 · 660p · ≈ 22h · Moderate The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of… Shares: Prisons, History

By the Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle · 2024 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven’t heard of into a legal thriller." —New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • NPR 2024 "Books We Loved"… Shares: Social Science, History

Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard Alexandre Dumas · 1848 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon… Shares: Histoire, History

12 Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Duplicate of https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27241047M/12_Rules_For_Life_Paperback Shares: Social, Philosophy

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.… Shares: Essays

Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Essays

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is romantic story, I walked to-day down by the river side. The Cam is a stream much slighted by the lover of wild and romantic scenery; and its chief merit, in the eyes of our boys, is that it approaches more nearly to a canal in its straightness and the deliberation of its slow lapse than many more famous floods--and is therefore more adapted for the maneuvres of eight-oared boats! But… Shares: Essays

The thread of gold Arthur Christopher Benson · 1905 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This is biographical book. I have for a great part of my life desired, perhaps more than I have desired anything else, to make a beautiful book; and I have tried, perhaps too hard and too often, to do this, without ever quite succeeding; by that I mean that my little books, when finished, were not worthy to be compared with the hope that I had had of them. I think now that I tried to do too many… Shares: Essays

SPSS Explained Perry R. Hinton · 2004 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate SPSS Explained provides the student with all that they need to undertake statistical analysis using SPSS. It combines a step-by-step approach to each procedure with easy-to-follow screenshots at each stage of the process. A number of other helpful features are provided, including:regular advice boxes with tips specific to each test explanations divided into ‘essential’ and ‘advanced’ sections to… Shares: Social Science, Essays

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 This Excellent Collection brings together Stapledon's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Olaf Stapledon's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the… Shares: Philosophy

Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 15 works of Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era (1820-1903) This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of Herbert Spencer. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Illustrations of Universal Progress - A… Shares: Essays, Philosophy

Survey methods in social investigation Claus A. Moser · 1958 · 549p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) is one of the world's most highly sophisticated arbitration institutions, with a continuously growing annual caseload. Now in its second edition, this detailed commentary with its insider's perspective has firmly established itself as the leading, authoritative guide to the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules. The text has been updated to… Shares: Social Science, Essays

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