The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
By: Ritchie Robertson
4.27
Format: 985 pages, Hardcover
This magisterial history—sure to become the definitive work on the subject—recasts the Enlightenmen…
Want to Read $ 13.99"When different religion managed to coexist peacefully for a long period, the visibility of other religion tended to weaken one's conviction of the unique excellence of one's own."-Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
"When different religion managed to coexist peacefully for a long period, the visibility of other religion tended to weaken one's conviction of the unique excellence of one's own."-Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
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1. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
By: Richard J. Evans
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of i… read more
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- history
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4. How the Mind Works
By: Steven Pinker
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, d… read more
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5. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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6. Inside the Third Reich
By: Albert Speer
4.23
Format: None pages,
Written by Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, the man who kept Germany armed and th… read more
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7. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
8. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
By: Orlando Figes
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orl… read more
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9. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.21
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America'… read more
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10. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
4.22
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more
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"The Lionheart had arrived."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
11. The English and their History
By: Robert Tombs
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many de… read more
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12. The Habsburg Empire: A New History
By: Pieter M. Judson
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so … read more
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13. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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14. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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15. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
4.21
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more
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16. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.08
Format: 416 pages, ebook
New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more
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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
17. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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18. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
By: Ritchie Robertson
4.27
Format: 985 pages, Hardcover
This magisterial history—sure to become the definitive work on the subject—recasts the Enlightenmen… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- european history
- sociology
- science
"When different religion managed to coexist peacefully for a long period, the visibility of other religion tended to weaken one's conviction of the unique excellence of one's own."-Ritchie Robertson, The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
19. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
By: Paul M.M. Cooper
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more
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20. Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
By: Jonathan I. Levy
4.30
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era thro… read more
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