8 Top history books like Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour by Ralph Miliband

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Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

By: Ralph Miliband

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Reflecting on the Labor government of Harold Wilson between 1964 and 1970, this concise analysis ch…

If you liked the history plot in Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour by Ralph Miliband , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

Similar categories in Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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2. Men Without Women

By: Haruki Murakami , None

3.75

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more

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"Tobacco’s a killer,"

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."

-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

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3. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

Similar categories in Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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  • philosophy

5. The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power

By: Alex Nunns

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In September of last year an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a… read more

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6. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

By: Adam Tooze

None

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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8. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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9. Heaven

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more

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"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."

-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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10. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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11. 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

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12. Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again

By: Duncan Weldon

4.15

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

'Here's the history that really matters' Financial Times The UK is, at the same time, both one o… read more

Similar categories in Duncan Weldon's Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

Similar categories in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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14. Betty

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany McDaniel's Betty book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

"The earth is warm enough."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

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15. Death in Her Hands

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.24

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

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16. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

By: Aaron Bastani

3.70

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We have a world to win"

-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

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17. Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn

By: Gabriel Pogrund

4.01

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The 2017 parliament began with Labour on the precipice of power, and its left-most fringe - for so … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right

By: Oliver Eagleton

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Eagleton's The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

By: Ralph Miliband

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Reflecting on the Labor government of Harold Wilson between 1964 and 1970, this concise analysis ch… read more

Similar categories in Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour book and Ralph Miliband's Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

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Adam Tooze

None

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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Javier Blas

4.34

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Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain’s Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again

Duncan Weldon

4.15

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Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Elif Batuman

3.66

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Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

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Eve Babitz

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