9 must-read nonfiction books like A History of the Ottoman Empire by Douglas A. Howard

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A History of the Ottoman Empire

By: Douglas A. Howard

3.72

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dis…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A History of the Ottoman Empire by Douglas A. Howard , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

By: Neil Shubin

4.03

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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2. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999

By: Misha Glenny

4.09

Format: 752 pages, Paperback

This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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4. The Cold War: A New History

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

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5. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Jared Diamond

3.93

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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6. Liquidate Paris

By: Sven Hassel

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

I had a grenade in my hand. So, no doubt, did the English private. I tore out the pin with my teeth… read more

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7. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

By: Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the… read more

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8. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

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9. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600

By: Halil İnalcık

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A preeminent scholar of Turkish history vividly portrays 300 years of this distinctively Eastern cu… read more

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10. Comrades of War

By: Sverre Lyngstad , Sven Hassel

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

So severely wounded as to earn a respite from the dreaded Eastern Front, Sven, the Legionnaire and … read more

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11. The Cyberiad

By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel , Daniel Mróz

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. … read more

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12. Les Trois Mousquetaires 1

By: Alexandre Dumas

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cei trei muschetari (Les Trois Mousquetaires) este un roman de Alexandre Dumas tatal, care relateaz… read more

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13. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State

By: Cemal Kafadar

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than… read more

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14. The Last Children of Tokyo

By: Yōko Tawada

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more

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"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

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15. Nights of Plague

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.58

Format: 683 pages, Hardcover

From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a… read more

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16. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I

By: Benjamin Woolley

3.62

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a major TV series, Mary & George, starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine.The King’s Ass… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Cumhuriyet’in 100 Günü: İnkılabın Ayak Sesleri

By: Emrah Safa Gürkan

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Anadolu’ya ilk çıktığı günden başlayarak, Mustafa Kemal’in hangi engellerle karşılaştığını hiç düşü… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. A History of the Ottoman Empire

By: Douglas A. Howard

3.72

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

Covering the full history of the Ottoman Empire, from its genesis in post-Mongol Eurasia to its dis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • islam
  • history
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20. La Fin de Fausta

By: Michel Zévaco

4.36

Format: 584 pages, Kindle Edition

Ce livre est une oeuvre du domaine public éditée au format numérique par Ebooks libres et gratuits.… read more

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21. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)

By: Heath W. Lowry

3.64

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on surviving docu… read more

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  • history

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