5 best-selling nonfiction books like Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations by Raymond Aron

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Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

By: Raymond Aron

4.24

Format: 846 pages, Paperback

Peace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations.…

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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil book and Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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2. The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

By: Edward Hallett Carr

4.09

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations published in 1939 was immediately recognized b… read more

Similar categories in Edward Hallett Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations book and Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"Biologically and economically, the doctrine of the harmony of interests was only tenable if you left out of account the interest of the weak who must be driven to the wall, or called in the next worl…"

-Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

"The trade unionist tends to regard the intellectual as a utopian theorist lacking experience in the practical problems of the movement. The intellectual condemns the trade union leader as a bureaucra…"

-Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

"Expanding prosperity contributed to the popularity of the doctrine of the harmony of interests in three different ways. It attenuated competition for markets among producers, since fresh markets were…"

-Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

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3. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

Similar categories in Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 book and Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

Similar categories in Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 book and Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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6. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

Similar categories in Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian book and Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

  • philosophy
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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7. Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

By: Raymond Aron

4.24

Format: 846 pages, Paperback

Peace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations.… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations book and Raymond Aron's Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science

5 must-read history books like Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations by Raymond Aron

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

Edward Hallett Carr

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

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13 must-read history books like The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric J. Hobsbawm

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

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