To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
By: Alfred W. McCoy
4.23
Format: 621 pages, Kindle Edition
In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explai…
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1. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
By: Nancy MacLean
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establ… read more
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- politics
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"Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the "failure of democracy to preserve liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"Interestingly, these conclusions issued from purely abstract thought experiments, not from any research on political practice."-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"...as Einhorn points out: "The anti-government rhetoric that continues to saturate our political life is rooted support for slavery rather than liberty"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
"[...] Rothbard explained, was "that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict", not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed"-Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
2. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.13
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more
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- history
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"Even his own speeches bored him."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Society's revenge matched its fright."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
3. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
By: Margot Adler
4.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publica… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
"When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are."-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
4. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
By: Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
The subject of The Wheels of Commerceis the development of mechanisms of exchange--shops, markets, … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
By: Jon Kabat-Zinn
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this book, the author maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in one's own life. It s… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Lower Depths
By: Maxim Gorky , None
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This compelling 1902 play, considered Gorky's masterpiece, centers on a group of wretched souls who… read more
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8. Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
By: Noam Chomsky , Peter Hutchinson , Kelly Nyks , None
3.50
Format: None pages,
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9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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10. Reaper's Gale (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7)
By: Steven Erikson
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals in… read more
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11. The Man Without Qualities
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
4.19
Format: 1774 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more
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"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
12. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more
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13. The Iran-Iraq War
By: None
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest war of the twentieth century. The tragedies inc… read more
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14. Death on the Installment Plan
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Nightand Death on the … read more
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15. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more
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- politics
"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
16. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.09
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
18. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
21. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
23. The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
By: Mike Davis
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more
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- history
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"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
25. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
By: Jason W. Moore
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitali… read more
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- history
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26. To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
By: Alfred W. McCoy
4.23
Format: 621 pages, Kindle Edition
In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explai… read more
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- nonfiction
- international relations
27. American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers
By: Perry Anderson
3.98
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birt… read more
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- history
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- international relations
28. Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
By: Sara Roy
4.33
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
"Unique . . . [Roy] is humanely rather than only professionally committed in ways that are unmatche… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (Essential Mike Davis)
By: Mike Davis
4.38
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analyt… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
