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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,525,512 ratings — published 1969
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 40,484 ratings — published 1916
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 39,017 ratings — published 2012
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 9,107 ratings — published 2023
Freedom Evolves (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,890 ratings — published 2003
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 852 ratings — published 1984
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 71 ratings — published 2001
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.82 — 167 ratings — published 2007
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.17 — 599 ratings — published 2004
The Illusion of Conscious Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 704 ratings — published 2002
Determined to Believe: The Sovereignty of God, Freedom, Faith and Human Responsibility (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 459 ratings — published
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published 1999
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 132,404 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 472,126 ratings — published 1997
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,519,219 ratings — published 1942
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 197,565 ratings — published 1976
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 73,582 ratings — published 2001
Sunnyside Plaza (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 665 ratings — published 2020
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,306 ratings — published 2015
Oddity Woods (Oddity Woods, #1)
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avg rating 4.05 — 461 ratings — published 2025
Les jeux sont faits (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,901 ratings — published 1947
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 29,349 ratings — published 1987
Corbow's Theory (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Missing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 149,559 ratings — published 2025
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 342,776 ratings — published 2020
The Fate of the Poseidonia (ebook)
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avg rating 3.14 — 69 ratings — published 1927
Introdução À Psicologia do Destino - Liberdade e Compulsão No Destino do Homem (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 2013
Blueberry Pie and Other Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1932
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 413,410 ratings — published 1879
Freedom and Belief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 1987
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 21,409 ratings — published 1882
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 120,140 ratings — published 1886
On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 768 ratings — published 1869
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 15,418 ratings — published 2017
The Will to Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 11,494 ratings — published 1901
X Minus One: Protective Mimicry (October 3, 1956)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 1956
The Red Room (Risk Agent, #3)
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avg rating 3.21 — 702 ratings — published 2014
The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Honey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,290 ratings — published 1987
Nut Bush Farm (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.54 — 87 ratings — published 1882
Captive - Based On A True Story - Erotic Fiction For Gay Men - MM First Time Straight To Gay Master Age Gap Rough Enemies To Lovers ABDL: First Came The Intruder, Everybody Else Came Next ... (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 160,414 ratings — published 2013
Story of Your Life (ebook)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,984 ratings — published 1998
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 833 ratings — published 2002
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,706,317 ratings — published 1939
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 74,317 ratings — published 2000
El escarabajo de oro (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,515 ratings — published 1843
Los Tres Pequeños superpigs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 568 ratings — published 2018
My Adventure At Chiselhurst (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.35 — 20 ratings — published
Mortina e l'amico fantasma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,037 ratings — published 2018
The Stars Are the Styx (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 125 ratings — published 1979
“The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.”
― Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science
― Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us as an alien agency within, striving for life and procreation blindly, mediated only secondarily by consciousness. Instinctive sexuality is at our core, interfering constantly with the life of the intellect. To be an individual expression of this will is to lead a life of continual desire, deficiency, and suffering. Pleasure or satisfaction exists only relative to a felt lack; it is negative, merely the cessation of an episode of striving or suffering, and has no value of itself. Nothing we can achieve by conscious act of will alters the will to life within us. There is no free will. Human actions, as part of the natural order, are determined [....] As individual parts of the empirical world we are ineluctably pushed through life by a force inside us which is not of our choosing, which gives rise to needs and desires we can never fully satisfy, and is without ultimate purpose. Schopenhauer concludes that it would have been better not to exist—and that the world itself is something whose existence we should deplore rather than celebrate.”
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