Books

The Promise of American Life Herbert Croly The 1909 book that gave American progressivism its argument: that Jeffersonian ends now required Hamiltonian means. 1 recommender The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI Kevin Hartnett From the four-colour theorem to Lean, the story of machines checking proofs line by line, and what that does to a discipline built on human conviction. 1 recommender The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Twenty-six prose poems delivered by a departing prophet, dismissed by critics for a century and carried around for just as long by readers who needed them. 1 recommender The Prophet of Mercy Mohammad Elshinawy, Omar Suleiman On the Prophet Muhammad's merciful responses to hostility and insult. The Proposal Jasmine Guillory She turns down a jumbotron proposal in front of forty thousand people, and leaves with the stranger who rescued her. 1 recommender The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel Doing well with money has less to do with intelligence than with behaviour: how you handle greed, fear, patience and luck. 2 recommenders The Psychology of Selling Brian Tracy Tracy's best-known sales book, built on the idea that the inner game decides the outer one, and that top earners think differently before they speak. The Purchase of the Danish West Indies The Purchase of the Danish West Indies Charles Callan Tansill America bought the Virgin Islands in 1917, and the deal was mostly about keeping Germany out. 1 recommender The Pursuit of the Millennium Norman Cohn Medieval apocalyptic movements, and the argument that modern totalitarianism inherited their structure. 1 recommender The Quantity Theory of Money: A Restatement Tim Congdon A restatement of monetarism by one of the few economists who never abandoned it. 1 recommender The Queen of the Tambourine Jane Gardam A woman writes letters to a neighbour who may not be receiving them, or existing. 1 recommender The Question of Palestine Edward Said The Palestinian case argued as historical record and political right, not as an appeal for sympathy. The Qur’an, Dajjal, and the Jassad Imran N. Hosein On the figure of Dajjal and the meaning of the jassad in the Qur'anic account of the end of history. The Qur’an, the Great War and the West Imran N. Hosein On the First World War as a turning point, and the order that replaced the one it destroyed. The Quran and Russia’s Destiny Imran N. Hosein A reading of Russia's place in Islamic eschatology and in the author's account of the world's political future. The Quran and The Moon Imran N. Hosein On the moon in the Qur'an and the method of sighting it, and what the calendar has to do with the age we live in. The Quranic Foundation and Structure of Muslim Society Maulana Dr. Fazlur Rahman Ansari Attribution settled by the owner on Sep 9 2026: the author is Maulana Dr. Fazlur Rahman Ansari, who taught Imran N. Hosein. The book is sold through Hosein foundation shop, and the shop own brand name in the page markup is what caused the original mis-attribution to Hosein. The Quranic Method of Curing Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Imran N. Hosein A short work on addiction and the Qur'anic approach to treating it. The Radium Girls Kate Moore The young factory women poisoned by the luminous paint they were told to lick, and their fight to be believed. 1 recommender The Ragman’s Son Kirk Douglas The actor's own account of his rise from a Russian-Jewish immigrant childhood, including his part in breaking the blacklist. 1 recommender The Rainbow Comes and Goes Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt When his mother turned 91, Cooper started a year-long correspondence with her. The letters become a frank, tender reckoning between mother and son. The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang The 1937 massacre much of the world managed to forget, documented before the last witnesses died 1 recommender The Rapture of Canaan Sheri Reynolds Sheri Reynolds's novel follows a teenage girl in a strict backwoods religious sect as faith, first love, and pregnancy collide. 1 recommender The Rational Male Rollo Tomassi The manosphere's founding text, and the reference point for a body of writing built on it. The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley Prosperity comes from exchange and specialisation, Ridley argues, and the pessimists have been wrong for two centuries. 1 recommender The Raven and Other Favorite Poems Edgar Allan Poe A Dover Thrift collection of 41 poems by Edgar Allan Poe, led by the title poem, which first ran in the New York Evening Mirror in 1845. 1 recommender The Reader Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink's novel follows a German teenager's affair with an older woman, whose wartime secret surfaces years later at a trial. 1 recommender The Real Crash Peter Schiff Schiff's argument that 2008 was a symptom and the real reckoning, a debt-and-dollar crash, still looms unless America embraces radical fixes. The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China Lu Xun Julia Lovell's translation of the complete fiction of Lu Xun, including the novella The Real Story of Ah Q. 1 recommender The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz The Martinican psychiatrist who treated torturers and their victims in Algeria, then wrote the century most influential account of colonial violence. 1 recommender The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam Muhammad Iqbal 1 recommender The Redbreast Jo Nesbø Jo Nesbø's 2000 crime novel, third in the Harry Hole series, moving between modern Oslo and the Second World War. The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Matthew Barrett A long argument that the Reformers were retrieving the catholic tradition rather than breaking it. 1 recommender The Reformer Stephen F. Williams The story of Vasily Maklakov, the liberal lawyer who fought to steer late imperial Russia toward reform before revolution closed the door. 1 recommender The Relationship Handbook George Pransky Most arguments are a mood, not an issue. A short guide to telling which one you are in. 1 recommender The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel Imran N. Hosein A view from the Qur'an of Abraham's covenant and of the modern state that claims it.