Wind, Sand and Stars
1939 · 240 pages
Flying mail over the Sahara and Patagonia, Saint-Exupery writes about what the work did to the men who flew it. The pilot Guillaumet crashed in the Andes and walked out through the snow.
★ 6.6
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The Division of Labor in Society
1893 · 362 pages
What holds a modern society together when its members no longer share a creed? Durkheim's answer is the division of labor itself: the more specialized we become, the more we need each other.
★ 6.8