14 must-read economics books like The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe by Thane Gustafson

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The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe

By: Thane Gustafson

4.14

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

A noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europe’s geopolitical rivalries, natural gas a…

If you liked the economics plot in The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe by Thane Gustafson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

By: Richard McGregor

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Often critical of Washington's 'combination of idealism and arrogance, ' McGregor offers detailed,… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

2. 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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  • politics
  • 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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3. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

4. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

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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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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6. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

By: Anil Seth

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway

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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"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

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8. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

9. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
Cover of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton

10. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia

11. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

12. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas

13. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"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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14. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
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15. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

16. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants by James  Vincent

17. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

By: James Vincent

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

18. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by Dan McCrum

19. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

By: Dan McCrum

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
Cover of Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand by Joe Foster

20. Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand

By: Joe Foster

4.09

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

21. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

By: Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"

-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Cover of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze

22. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By: Adam Tooze

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Cover of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt

23. California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

By: Katherine Blunt

4.27

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent B… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk

24. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Serhy Yekelchyk

3.89

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differ… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx

25. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

By: W. David Marx

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Putin: His Life and Times by Philip Short

26. Putin: His Life and Times

By: Philip Short

4.32

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

27. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

By: Adam Rutherford

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."

-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"

-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Cover of The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe by Thane Gustafson

28. The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe

By: Thane Gustafson

4.14

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

A noted expert on Russian energy argues that despite Europe’s geopolitical rivalries, natural gas a… read more

Similar categories in Thane Gustafson's The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe book and Thane Gustafson's The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War by Paul D'Anieri

29. Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War

By: Paul D'Anieri

4.24

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and t… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Aslund

30. Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

By: Anders Aslund

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics

26 best-selling history books like The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe by Thane Gustafson

Transform Your Habits

Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

Richard McGregor

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

3.79

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History of the Peloponnesian War

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3.94

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

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Tim Alberta

4.45

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