Muhammad
By: Maxime Rodinson
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. M…
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By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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4. Chevengur
By: Andrei Platonov , Anthony Olcott
4.17
Format: None pages,
Chevenguris a massive series of satirical scenes from Soviet life during the New Economic Policy in… read more
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5. In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
By: Robert G. Hoyland
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Hardcover
In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Cal… read more
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6. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
By: Amin Maalouf
4.20
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses, and … read more
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"Après la destruction d'Alamout (1256), la secte des Assassins s'est perpétuée sous une forme on ne peut plus pacifique : les ismaéliens, adeptes de l'Aga Khan, dont on oublie parfois qu'il est le suc…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"In the space of eighteen months three of the most renowned cities of the Arab world - Tripoli, Beirut, and Saida - had been taken and sacked, their inhabitants massacred or deported, their emirs, qad…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"Pour l'envahisseur, apprendre la langue du peuple conquis est une habileté; pour ce dernier, apprendre la langue du conquérant est une compromission, voire une trahison. De fait, les Franj ont été no…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"La fierté de Maara, c'était d'être la patrie de l'une des plus grandes figures de la littérature arabe, Aboul-Ala al-Maari, mort en 1057. Ce poète aveugle, libre penseur, avait osé s'en prendre aux m…"-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
7. War and Peace, V1
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.06
Format: None pages,
Translated by Rosemary Jennings. read more
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9. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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10. Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this short, highly readable book Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ide… read more
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11. Alamut
By: Vladimir Bartol , Michael Biggins
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Alamuttakes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet … read more
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12. Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy
By: Jonathan A.C. Brown
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. Modern me… read more
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13. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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14. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
By: Martin Lings
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Martin Lings' biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritati… read more
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15. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
16. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
By: Jillian Lauren
3.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more
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17. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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18. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
19. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
By: Adam Shatz
4.24
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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20. Muhammad
By: Maxime Rodinson
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. M… read more
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21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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