Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West
By: Andrew Wilson
3.67
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world’s n…
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1. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
By: Peter Pomerantsev
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a r… read more
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"We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Bec…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all the time. There's like several "you"s.' Seen from this pers…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"That unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace. One time I see a poster advertising a new property development that captures the tone nicely. Got up in the style of Nazi propaganda, it shows two Germ…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
2. Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
By: Vaclav Smil
3.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
4. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
5. Green Illusions
By: Ozzie Zehner
3.97
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at che… read more
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"Wind is renewable. Turbines are not."-Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
"Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded."-Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
"Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers."-Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
"Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict."-Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
6. Why Don't We Learn from History?
By: B.H. Liddell Hart , Hermon Ould
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Preface Foreword Part 1: History & truth Part 2: Government & freedom Part 3: War & peace Conclusio… read more
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7. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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8. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
9. A Little History of Economics
By: Niall Kishtainy
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in… read more
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10. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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11. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
By: Masha Gessen
4.03
Format: 166 pages,
The Man Without a Faceis the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascen… read more
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12. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
13. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
14. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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15. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more
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16. Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re
By: Andreas Kluth
4.39
Format: None pages,
The lives of Hannibal and his Roman enemies are the stuff of legend. But these classic stories cont… read more
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17. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- history
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
18. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- history
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- war
- ukraine
- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
19. 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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- russia
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- nonfiction
20. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
4.36
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more
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"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
21. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
22. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
23. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
24. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
25. Making a Psychopath: My Journey into Seven Dangerous Minds
By: Mark Freestone
3.51
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Find out what truly creates and defines a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create … read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Art of Explanation
By: Ros Atkins
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creat… read more
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27. Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
By: Richard Snow
3.97
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece Califor… read more
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- history
28. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
By: Luke Harding
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more
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29. Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West
By: Andrew Wilson
3.67
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
A leading Ukraine specialist and firsthand witness to the 2014 Kiev Uprising analyzes the world’s n… read more
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- ukraine
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30. The Imposter Cure: How to stop feeling like a fraud and escape the mind-trap of imposter syndrome
By: Jessamy Hibberd
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
'You've definitely heard of it, you've almost certainly felt it and it's actively stopping you fro… read more
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31. Ukraine and the Art of Strategy
By: Lawrence Freedman
3.90
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine and economic sanctions im… read more
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