23 Best history books like The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang

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The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

By: Steve Tsang

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communi…

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1. Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

By: Rana Mitter

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of T… read more

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2. 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

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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3. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

By: Daron Acemoğlu

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more

Similar categories in Daron Acemoğlu's The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

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4. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • china
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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5. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
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7. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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8. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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10. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

Similar categories in Jacob Mikanowski's Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

By: Scott J. Shapiro

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more

Similar categories in Scott J. Shapiro's Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"

-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

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14. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future

By: Ian Johnson

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more

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  • politics
  • china
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Persian Empire

By: John W.I. Lee

4.11

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen

18. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

By: Bethany Allen

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
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19. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism

By: Keyu Jin

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

20. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

Similar categories in Venki Ramakrishnan's Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • nonfiction
Cover of Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Chun Han Wong

21. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

By: Chun Han Wong

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
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22. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

By: Steve Tsang

4.17

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communi… read more

Similar categories in Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
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23. The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions

By: Arash Azizi

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

‘An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.’ Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

Similar categories in Nick Bryant's The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself book and Steve Tsang's The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

By: Anu Bradford

3.95

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; politica… read more

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  • politics
  • international relations
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto

By: Jonathan Taplin

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first cen… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

28. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China

By: Minxin Pei

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorshi… read more

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  • politics
  • china
  • history
  • nonfiction

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Siddharth Kara

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Daron Acemoğlu

4.23

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