Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan
By: Jonathan Clements
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger econom…
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1. 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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2. Another Day of Life
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None
3.72
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent hi… read more
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- travel
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3. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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4. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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5. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
6. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
9. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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11. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
By: Craig Whitlock
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how th… read more
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"To reinforce the message, Obama administration officials touted statistics that distorted what was really happening on the ground. The Bush administration had done the same, but Obama staffers in the…"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
"Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, …"-Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
12. The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
By: Matthew Longo
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. In August 1989, a grou… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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14. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
By: Grace Blakeley
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more
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- nonfiction
"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
15. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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- china
16. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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17. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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18. Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
By: Norman Ohler
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs… read more
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19. Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan
By: Jonathan Clements
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger econom… read more
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20. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan As ten… read more
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- china
21. The Honeyeater
By: Jessie Tu
3.59
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more
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