Awe


Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do
Women & Power: A Manifesto
The Radius of Us
Call Your Daughter Home
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Hurricane Season
Sold on a Monday
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
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Emotions in Titles
852 books — 40 voters
Harry Smith by Andrew PerchukThus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheUlysses by James JoyceThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest HemingwayGrove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of t... by Loren Glass
Avant-Garde
5 books — 3 voters

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah BakewellTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Existentialist's Survival Guide by Gordon MarinoIntroducing Existentialism by Oscar ZárateExistentialism For Beginners by David Cogswell
Existentialism
10 books — 2 voters

Sarah   Williams
[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete, Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet, And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true, And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you. But, my ...more
Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

Frédéric Gros
Walking causes a repetitive, spontaneous poetry to rise naturally to the lips, words as simple as the sound of footsteps on the road. There also seems to be an echo of walking in the practice of two choruses singing a psalm in alternate verses, each on a single note, a practice that makes it possible to chant and listen by turns. Its main effect is one of repetition and alternation that St Ambrose compared to the sound of the sea: when a gentle surf is breaking quietly on the shore the regularit ...more
Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

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