On History
By: Fernand Braudel
3.63
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire —a collection of essays written over a twent…
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1. Kolyma Tales
By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов
4.36
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more
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- nonfiction
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"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Помню, как в предзимнюю пору холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
2. Aparição
By: Vergílio Ferreira
3.69
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Aparição é um romance de Vergílio Ferreira que discute teorias filosóficas relacionadas com o exist… read more
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- philosophy
"Um assassino é um sub-homem, não um super-homem."-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição
"De que nadas a vida se sustenta! O necessário, sim, o necessário é que o futuro os habite - mesmo em ilusão."-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição
"Ah, ter a evidência ácida do milagre que sou, de como infinitamente é necessário que eu esteja vivo, e ver depois, em fulgor, que tenho de morrer."-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição
"Entendo a tua loucura, meu bom moço, a tua perplexidade diante do poder que te nasceu nas mãos. Mas como não aprendeste que é mais forte criar uma flor (um parafuso...) do que destruir um império"-Vergílio Ferreira, Aparição
3. Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey (Studies in Environment and History)
By: John L. Brooke
3.68
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to f… read more
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- history
- world history
4. Praise of Folly
By: Erasmus , Betty Radice , A.H.T. Levi
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist move… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- essays
5. Medieval Civilization 400-1500
By: Jacques Le Goff , Julia Barrow
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
7. What is Cultural History?
By: Peter Burke
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
This exciting introductory text offers an accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
8. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
9. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
By: Marc Bloch , Joseph R. Strayer , None
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques… read more
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10. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
11. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. Fascism
By: Roger Griffin
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
No political ideology has had a greater impact on modern history, or caused more intellectual contr… read more
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13. 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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14. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
15. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
16. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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17. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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18. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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19. What is History, Now?
By: Suzannah Lipscomb
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, E.H. … read more
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- world history
- philosophy
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20. On History
By: Fernand Braudel
3.63
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire —a collection of essays written over a twent… read more
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- grad school
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21. History and Memory
By: Jacques Le Goff
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historia… read more
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- history
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