Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
By: Richard Cockett
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achiev…
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1. دایی جان ناپلئون
By: None , Iraj Pezeshkzad
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
A teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, m… read more
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2. The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
By: Paul Lendvai , None
3.44
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The Hungariansis the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily… read more
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3. The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
By: Ryszard Legutko
3.85
Format: 96 pages,
The book is written from a perspective of someone who after having lived for many years under commu… read more
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4. The Man Without Qualities
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
4.19
Format: 1774 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more
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"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
5. The Second World War
By: John Keegan , Winston S. Churchill
3.12
Format: 56 pages,
The definitive, Nobel Prize-winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnific… read more
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6. Germany: Memories of a Nation
By: Neil MacGregor
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Audio CD
A major new series from the makers of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," exploring the fascin… read more
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7. Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
By: Karl Sigmund , None
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the worl… read more
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8. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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9. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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10. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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11. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
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"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
12. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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13. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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14. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
By: Simon Baron-Cohen
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more
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15. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
By: Henry Sanderson
4.12
Format: 304 pages, ebook
'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more
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16. The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna
By: Angus Robertson
3.51
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A rich and illuminating history of the world capitol that has transformed art, culture, and politic… read more
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17. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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18. Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
By: Richard Cockett
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achiev… read more
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19. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
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20. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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