A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook
By: Stephen J. Shoemaker
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged …
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1. We Should All Be Feminists
By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.40
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more
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"I am just as human as the man."-None, We Should All Be Feminists
"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."-None, We Should All Be Feminists
"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."-None, We Should All Be Feminists
"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"-None, We Should All Be Feminists
2. The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos (Translated Texts for Historians, 31) (Volume 31)
By: Robert Thomson , James Howard-Johnston , Sebeos
4.54
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The History attributed to Sebeos is one of the major works of early Armenian historiography. Althou… read more
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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. 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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5. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
6. Islam: A Short History
By: Karen Armstrong
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imag… read more
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7. The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
By: Robert L. Wilken
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to… read more
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8. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
9. The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad
By: None , Sean W. Anthony
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
The Expeditionsis one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern … read more
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10. Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
By: Fred M. Donner
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
The origins of Islam have been the subject of increasing controversy in recent years. The tradition… read more
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11. The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In
By: Hugh Kennedy
4.07
Format: 253 pages,
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over 100 years following the death of… read more
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12. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
13. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
14. How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapitalwas published, the doctrine that bears his name has b… read more
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15. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.50
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more
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16. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
17. The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.49
Format: 5 pages, Audio CD
An angry prophet. A feared and loathsome enemy. A devastating storm. And the surprising message of … read more
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"Why was God sending a deluge of disappointments? "Tis in this way," the Lord replied, in essence: "I am ANSWERING your prayers for grace and faith. I am only trying to liberate you from the things th…"-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
"When you indulge yourself in bitter thought, it feels so satisfying to fantasize about payback. But slowly and surely it will enlarge your capacity for self-pity, erode your ability to trust and enjo…"-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
18. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
19. No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
By: Reza Aslan
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evol… read more
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"The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it."-Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
"[...] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]"-Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
"[...] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom."-Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
"Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice."-Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
20. The Last Great War of Antiquity
By: James Howard-Johnston
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ide… read more
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21. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
By: Sean Anthony
4.36
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Mus… read more
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"Even skepticism has its limits."-Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
"Making sense of texts inevitably entails learning how others have done so, and often done so very differently."-Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
"History uses memory and its reconstructions of the past as a source, even an extraordinarily important source, but still just one source to be read and utilized in light of many others."-Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
"Patricia Crone famously quipped that, with regard to Muhammad's trade journeys in sīrah-maghāzī literature, "What the [Arabic] sources offer are fifteen equally fictitious versions of an event that n…"-Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
22. AI Ethics
By: Mark Coeckelbergh
3.69
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype … read more
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23. A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook
By: Stephen J. Shoemaker
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged … read more
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24. Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam
By: Shahab Ahmed
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in … read more
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25. The Qur'an: A Historical-Critical Introduction (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)
By: Nicolai Sinai
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Qur'an represents both Islam's historical point of origin and its scriptural foundation, inaugu… read more
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26. The Biography of Muhammad: Nature and Authenticity
By: Gregor Schoeler
4.33
Format: 199 pages, ebook
This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from tw… read more
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