The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890 - 1990 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 2)
By: Steven E. Aschheim
3.57
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The twentieth century has seen countless attempts to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche f…
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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. Kolyma Tales
By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов
4.36
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Помню, как в предзимнюю пору холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
3. Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics
By: Don Dombowsky
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
In this exciting new study, Don Dombowsky proposes that the foundation of Nietzsche's political tho… read more
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- philosophy
4. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
By: Richard Wolin
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Fifteen years ago, revelations about the political misdeeds of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man sen… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
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5. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
7. The Train Was on Time
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre… read more
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8. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
9. The Civil War
By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more
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10. What Makes Sammy Run?
By: Budd Schulberg
3.62
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
What Makes Sammy Run? Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our time… read more
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11. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
By: Walter Kaufmann
3.75
Format: 160 pages,
This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Wal… read more
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12. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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13. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
By: Richard J. Evans
4.83
Format: 266 pages,
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more
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14. The Crisis of the European Mind
By: Anthony Grafton , J. Lewis May , Paul Hazard
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and The Crisis of the Europe… read more
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15. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich
By: None
3.98
Format: None pages, ebook
When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche's critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about… read more
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16. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
17. I Am Legend
By: Richard Matheson
4.06
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more
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"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
18. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- european history
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
19. Stalingrad
By: Vasily Grossman
4.28
Format: 1088 pages, Paperback
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life… read more
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"But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. The…"-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad
"There are people who like to ascribe only the basest of motives to the actions of others. This is not always because they act basely themselves; often they would not dream of acting as they suspect o…"-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad
20. Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.64
Format: 1076 pages, ebook
Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, a… read more
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21. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890 - 1990 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 2)
By: Steven E. Aschheim
3.57
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The twentieth century has seen countless attempts to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche f… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
22. In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
By: Bruce Gilley
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, cont… read more
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"The myth of “artificial boundaries"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Berlin conference has been subject to a relentless campaign of debunking by modern intellectuals. One claim they make is that the assembled delegates “carved up"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Spirit of Berlin was embodied in two principles. First, colonial powers, whatever else they did, had a responsibility to improve the lives of native populations."-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Spirit of Berlin was embodied in two principles. First, colonial powers, whatever else they did, had a responsibility to improve the lives of native populations. The second principle insisted tha…"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
