Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By: Adeeb Khalid
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central As…
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1. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
By: Christopher I. Beckwith
3.61
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the… read more
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- asia
- china
- history
- nonfiction
2. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
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3. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
By: Tamim Ansary
3.87
Format: 144 pages,
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more
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4. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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5. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
By: Alistair Horne
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more
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6. Kingsblood Royal
By: Sinclair Lewis
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Ro… read more
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7. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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8. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By: Peter Hopkirk
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more
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9. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
By: Chingiz Aitmatov
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
..". a rewarding book." --Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes… read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
By: Calder Walton
4.30
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more
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- russia
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- china
- audiobook
12. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- politics
- russia
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- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
13. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- russia
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- kazakhstan
- asia
- politics
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"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
14. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- history
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15. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
By: Ian W. Toll
4.59
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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17. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
By: Tom Burgis
3.80
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
18. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- history
- audiobook
19. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- china
- audiobook
20. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By: Adeeb Khalid
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central As… read more
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- kazakhstan
- soviet union
- asia
- politics
- geography
- nonfiction
- china
- audiobook
21. The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
By: Johan Norberg
4.31
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels we… read more
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- history
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"Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna."-Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
