The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order
By: Hal Brands
3.91
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. 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
3. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
By: Michael Eliot Howard
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perha… read more
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- history
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- military history
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4. How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq
By: Matthew Alexander , John R. Bruning , John Bruning
4.10
Format: 40 pages,
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5. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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6. When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi
By: David Maraniss
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. World War II: A Very Short Introduction
By: Gerhard L. Weinberg
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope… read more
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9. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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- political science
10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
11. China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
By: Peter Martin
4.28
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock tr… read more
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- political science
12. 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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"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
13. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
By: Rush Doshi
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more
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- political science
14. The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
By: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An Economist Best Book of 2018 New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick “Gripping [and] splendid.…… read more
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- politics
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15. Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
By: Andrew Roberts
3.80
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest an… read more
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16. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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17. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
18. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind
By: Ann Wolbert Burgess
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolu… read more
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19. The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.82
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tr… read more
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- political science
20. The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order
By: Hal Brands
3.91
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international ord… read more
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- 21st century
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21. Reflections on Net Assessment
By: Andrew W. Marshall
3.62
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Andrew W. Marshall founded the discipline and the office of net assessment. As Director, Net Assess… read more
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