These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
3.77
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweep…
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1. The Lowland
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.87
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a … read more
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"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
By: Corey Robin
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- nonfiction
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
7. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
By: Jon Meacham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this r… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
8. The Bronze Horseman: Selected Poems of Alexander Pushkin
By: Alexander Pushkin , D.M. Thomas
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Velikaia poema Pushkina "Mednyi vsadnik" vdokhnovliala i prodolzhaet vdokhnovliat' khudozhnikov i k… read more
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9. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
10. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
11. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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12. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
By: Frances FitzGerald
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"A page turner...We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sen… read more
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13. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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14. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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15. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- history
- audiobook
16. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
19. Yesterday Is History
By: Kosoko Jackson
3.74
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
A novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the… read more
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"The only way out is through. And the best way through something is the truth."-Kosoko Jackson, Yesterday Is History
20. These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
3.77
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweep… read more
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- 21st century
- audiobook
21. Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
By: Megan Kate Nelson
3.70
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating stor… read more
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- audiobook
