Books to help you think through your personal values.
Current Titles:
- Are the Rich Necessary? Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values by Hunter Lewis
- Moral Foundations: An Introduction to Ethics by Alexander Skutch
- Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet by Herbert Gold
- Ethics Since 1900, 3rd Edition by Mary Warnock
- Alternative Values: The Perennial Debate about Wealth, Power, Fame, Praise, Glory, and Physical Pleasure edited by Hunter Lewis
- Alexander Skutch: An Appreciation by Alexander Skutch
- The Beguiling Serpent: A Re-evaluation of Emotions and Values by Hunter Lewis
- The Words of Jesus
- A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives by Hunter Lewis
- Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language by Robert Gula
- The Gita: A New Translation of Hindu Sacred Scripture by Irina Gajjar
- History of Ethics, Volume 1: Graeco-Roman to Early Modern Ethics by Vernon J. Bourke
- History of Ethics, Volume 2: Modern and Contemporary Ethics by Vernon J. Bourke
- How Much Money does an Economy Need? Solving the Central Economic Puzzle of Money, Prices, and Jobs by Hunter Lewis
- Epicureans and Stoics Edited by the Axios Institute
- Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu by Lawrence Durrell
- Escape to the Mountain: A Family's Adventures in the Wilderness by Marcia Bonta
- Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918 by Martin Green
- Mr. Market Miscalculates: The Bubble Years and Beyond by James Grant
- Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
- Cavafy: 166 Poems Translated with an Introduction by Alan L. Boegehold
- The Big Spenders: The Epic Story of the Rich Rich, the Grandees of America, and the Magnificoes, and How They Spent Their Fortune by Lucius Beebe
- I've Seen The Best of It: Memoirs by Joseph Alsop with Adam Platt
- Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes by Lawrence Durrell
- Good Behavior: Being a Study of Certain Types of Civility by Harold Nicolson
- The Age of Reason: 1700-1789 by Harold Nicolson
- Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution by Martin Green
Mr. Market Miscalculates: The Bubble Years and Beyond
by James Grant |
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Why is America in financial crisis today? This book, better than any to date, explains it all-how we got here, and where we are going. It is brilliantly described in a collection of pieces from Grant's Interest Rate Observer, the Wall Street insider's Bible.
These essays are remarkable for their prescience: two years before subprime mortgages collapsed, the author foresaw that the "risk to house prices lies not with interest rates but with lending standards." Grant tells the unvarnished truth about Wall Street and Washington, yet Mr. Market Miscalculates is infused with the author's generous spirit and rich sense of humor.
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Bitter Lemons
Lawrence Durrell |
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In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the somber political tragedy that finally engulfed the island.
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Cavafy: 166 Poems
Translated with an Introduction by Alan L. Boegehold |
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Constantine Cavafy is considered the greatest of modern Greek poets. His poems treat historical, philosophical, and erotic themes, sometimes altogether, and share a unique "voice."
This volume includes a fresh translation by noted classical scholar Alan Boegehold, a translation that captures the style as well as the meaning of the Greek, and a foreword discussing Cavafy's distinctive values.
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The Big Spenders: The Epic Story of the Rich Rich, the Grandees of America and the Magnificoes, and How They Spent Their Fortunes
Lucius Beebe |
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The Big Spenders was Lucius Beebe's last and many think his best book. In it he describes the consumption of the Gilded Age. Beebe enjoys it all immensely, and so do we his readers, whether it is James Gordon Bennett buying a Monte Carlo restaurant because he was refused a seat by the window, or Spencer Penrose leaving a bedside memo reminding himself not to spend more than $1 million the next day.
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I've Seen the Best of It
Joseph W. Alsop with Adam Platt |
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A fixture in Washington society, Joseph Alsop knew intimately everyone who mattered in American politics, including all the presidents of his day, but was especially close to John and Jacqueline Kennedy.
He also visited Churchill in London, de Gaulle in Paris, Adenauer in Bonn, and writes entertainingly about these and other larger-than-life figures.
No journalist since Henry Adams so brilliantly described the habits of the great and near-great of his day, in government and elsewhere.
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Reflections on a Marine Venus:
A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes
by Lawrence Durrell
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Reflections on a Marine Venus explores life on a magical and enchanting island (Rhodes)
right after World War II. It is about Greece when it was a demi-paradise. But it is also about
the distillation of life and experience, the savoring of all the exquisite pleasures, physical,
sensual and intellectual, available on one lovely island at one time.
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Good Behavior:
Being a Study of Certain Types of Civility
by Harold Nicolson
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Do we want to be persons of culture, civility, and manners? Even in the contemporary world,
where this question is not much asked, most people would respond with a resounding YES. Well,
if you want to be cultured, civil, and mannered, not just another everyday barbarian, it will
take some work, some training, and a good place to start is with Harold Nicolson's very readable
and entertaining book. New Introduction by Juliet Nicolson, Harold Nicolson's granddaughter.
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The Age of Reason:
1700-1789
by Harold Nicolson
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This is a study of the 18th century. Nicolson called his book "a gallery of portraits," e.g. the duc de Saint Simon,
elegant and unabashed social climber; Count Cagliostro, practitioner of "black arts"; Thomas Paine, inflamer of the
masses; Jacques Casanova, lover, pornographer, and "con man." This single masterful volume synthesizes, through
people and events, the 18th century ideals of reason and liberty, the attack on superstition, tradition, and
authority which shook the world and produced a revolution in values.
New Introduction by Juliet Nicolson, Harold Nicolson's granddaughter.
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Gandhi:
Voice of a New Age Revolution
by Martin Green
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The name of Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most widely recognized in the world. His Autobiography has been
translated into all major languages. The film "Gandhi" remains popular.
Yet many mysteries surround this man, especially about his inner life and personal relationships. This
book covers these topics.
A unique feature of this book is its account of Gandhi's youthful encounter in London with a series of
ideas often referred to as New Age.
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