Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
4.18
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer…
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1. The Crimean War: A History
By: Orlando Figes
4.06
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more
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"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History
2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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3. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
By: Donald L. Miller
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth… read more
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4. Doctor Faustus
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed … read more
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5. In a Lonely Place
By: Karl Edward Wagner
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: xi * Introduction * Peter Straub * in 1 * Prologue to In the Pines ["Lonely Places"] * vi… read more
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6. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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7. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
By: Jonathan Sperber
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civ… read more
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8. 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
9. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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10. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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11. 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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12. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
By: Kelefa Sanneh
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more
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13. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
14. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
By: Sue Prideaux
4.31
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one o… read more
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15. Work: A History of How we spend our Time
By: James Suzman
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James … read more
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"The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion"-James Suzman, Work: A History of How we spend our Time
16. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
By: Patrick Wyman
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more
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17. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
By: Carl Zimmer
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from prot… read more
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"It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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18. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
4.18
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer… read more
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19. 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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20. The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
By: Sonia Shah
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, h… read more
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21. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
