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Mama’s Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals— beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it show that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy, and open our hea...
Jordan Peterson
2021-06-05T15:42:37.000ZAlso recommended by
Yuval Noah Harari
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know
And Many Others You Will Find Interesting
You're wrong: The world is, for the most part, not getting worse. 58 percent of folks in 17 countries surveyed in 2016 thought the world is getting worse rather than better or staying the same. Americans were even more glum: 65 percent thought the world is getting worse and only 6 percent thought it was getting better. The uncontroversial data on m...
The Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament. Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his day. His unfailing belief that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himsel...
Jordan Peterson
2020-12-21T14:00:33.000ZA masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th centuryNothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov’s crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darke...
Jordan Peterson
2020-12-14T14:00:30.000ZIn his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an age...
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-16T14:44:00.000ZAlso recommended by
Aubrey MarcusThe Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature soon after its publication, and half a century later it is still one of his most read books....
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-15T19:55:00.000ZIn 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls.The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mount...
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-13T19:55:02.000ZAlso recommended by
Josh WaitzkinThe definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as t...
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-11T23:00:08.000ZAlternate cover here.Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karama...
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-11T01:26:00.000ZAlso recommended by
Ben Shapiro"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature...
Jordan Peterson
2019-02-06T19:55:00.000ZAlso recommended by
Pope FrancisBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung
Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Unsafe Space by Tom Slater
The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by BjøRN Lomborg
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks
Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas S. Szasz
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Our Culture, What's Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp
Panzram A Journal of Murder by Thomas E. Gaddis
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3 by Mircea Eliade
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 by Mircea Eliade