Most Influential Books

Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC) by Ayn Rand

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. The more...1 point

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.1 point

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content. by Timothy Ferriss

More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. more...1 point

More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content. Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan-there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:...1 point

The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck

"Life is difficult." With this first sentence, more...0 points

"Life is difficult." With this first sentence, Dr. M. Scott Peck revolutionized the way we live our lives, and it is no less true today than when it was written twenty years ago. In this guide to confronting and resolving our problems-and suffering through the changes-we learn that we can reach a higher level of self knowledge. Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of love and understanding, The Road Less Traveled can help us learn the very nature of loving relationships: how to r...0 points

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor more...0 points

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wr...0 points

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won more...0 points

Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of o...0 points

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People is the first, more...0 points

How to Win Friends and Influence People is the first, and still the finest, book of its kind. One of the best-known motivational books in history, Dale Carnegie's groundbreaking work has sold millions of copies, has been translated into almost every known written language, and has helped countless people succeed in both their business and personal lives.First published in 1937, Carnegie's advice has remained relevant for generations because he addresses timeless questions about the fine art of g...0 points

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The book that changed the consciousness of a country-and more...0 points

The book that changed the consciousness of a country-and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic-these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 mi...0 points

Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

n time for the holiday season--in an appropriate a more...0 points

n time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a spectacular hardcover reissue of one of the most beloved books of our time. Since it was first published in 1955, Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and contentment.0 points

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted ge more...0 points

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move fo...0 points

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life by Gail Sheehy

At last, this is your story. You'll recognize your more...0 points

At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond. The Trying 20s -- The safety of home left behind, we begin trying on life's uniforms and possible partners in search of the perfect fit. The Catch 30s -- i...0 points

When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner

When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed more...0 points

When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life's most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is...0 points

The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One more...0 points

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron's fastness i...0 points

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (Official Edition)

The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture comparable more...0 points

The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel. The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon. The record gives an account of two great civilizations. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C.,....0 points

Holy Bible: King James Version: Standard Text Edition by Baker Publishing Group

The King James Version of 1611 has been the most w more...0 points

The King James Version of 1611 has been the most widely known and quoted version of the Bible for over three centuries, and has shaped both Western culture and the English language. The Standard Text Bible offers the text of the King James Version in an exceptionally clear and readable type. The size of the Bible makes it a handy buy for someone who wants an easily readable type, but not a Bible that is too heavy or bulky to carry. This Bible also has a glossary of 14 pages which explains some o...0 points

On the origin of species by means of natural selection,: Or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life by Charles Darwin

This book was converted from its physical edition more...0 points

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.0 points

Principia Mathematica - Volume One by Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing Of Volu more...0 points

An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing Of Volume I of III: Part I - MATHEMATICAL LOGIC - The Theory Of Deduction - Theory Of Apparent Variables - Classes And Relations - Logic And Relations - Products And Sums Of Classes - Part II - PROLEGOMENA TO CARDIANL ARITHMITIC - Unit Classes And Couples - Sub-Classes, Sub-Relations, And Relative Types - One-Many, Many-One, And One-One Relations - Selections - Inductive Relations0 points

On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series) by Nicolaus Copernicus

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the ear more...0 points

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the centre, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the centre. His remarkable work, "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres", stands as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of all time, and profoundly influenced, among others,...0 points

On the Fabric of the Human Body: Book 1 : The Bones and Cartilages by Andreas Vesalius

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory more...0 points

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life. In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The wor...0 points

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule more...0 points

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human am...0 points

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Paperback, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2". Rachel Carso more...0 points

Paperback, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2". Rachel Carson's eye-opening work on human impact on the environment. This edition was published by Houghton Mifflin for the Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, to give their readers an objective assessment of this, in 1962, emerging important issue.0 points

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell more...0 points

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined. In this edition, Stephen Jay Gould has written a substan...0 points

The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

This revised edition of Feynman's legendary lectures more...0 points

This revised edition of Feynman's legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved. This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together with Feynman's Tips on Physics making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. For all readers interested in physics.0 points

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the 20th Century" more...0 points

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the 20th Century" by Logos Magazine (UK). Will be on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1999.0 points