Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
By: Mike Giglio
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of force…
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. 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
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
"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
4. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- history
- war
5. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
By: Philip E. Tetlock , Dan Gardner
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller An EconomistBest Book of 2015 "The most important book on decision maki… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
7. The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
By: Graeme Wood
3.89
Format: 7 pages,
The author of the explosive Atlanticcover story "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive… read more
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- history
- islam
- politics
- nonfiction
- terrorism
8. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
9. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
10. On the State of Egypt: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections
By: Jonathan Wright , Alaa Al Aswany
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of he Yacaoubian Building and hicago turns his attention to current affairs … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
11. On War
By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret
3.75
Format: None pages,
Carl von Clausewitz's On Warhas been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great boo… read more
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12. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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13. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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14. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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15. The Forever War
By: Dexter Filkins
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever Waris the definitive account of America's conflict… read more
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16. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. Beyrouth-sur-Seine
By: Sabyl Ghoussoub
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Lorsque le narrateur décide de questionner ses parents sur leur pays d'origine, le Liban, il ne sai… read more
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- nonfiction
18. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
19. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
20. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
By: Zahra Hankir
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homeland… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
21. Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
By: Sam Dagher
4.29
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tla… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
"Bit by bit, the uprising that had brought out the best in Syrians and projected their aspirations and yearnings was vanishing as pain, vengefulness, and war took over. It was yet another page from th…"-Sam Dagher, Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
22. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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- history
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
23. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
24. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
25. The Infinite Game
By: Simon Sinek
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Do you know how to play the game you're in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players a… read more
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- nonfiction
"In any game, there are always two currencies required to play - will and resources."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"And like all infinite games, in the game of life, the goal is not to win, it is to perpetuate the game."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses…"-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
26. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
By: Johann Hari
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more
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"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
27. The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
28. Seventeen
By: Hideo Yokoyama
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seaso… read more
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"Never trust a man who needs to get drunk before he can speak his mind. Those people are not living an authentic life."-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and lightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and llightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
"As long as you kept running from birth until death, falling down, getting hurt, no matter how many times you suffered defeat, you got up and started running again. Personal happiness came from all th…"-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
29. Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi
By: Ulf Laessing
3.69
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
An account of what has happened to Libya since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi by a Reuters corresponde… read more
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30. Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
By: Mike Giglio
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of force… read more
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- history
- islamism
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- military history
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- terrorism
31. The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya
By: Frederic Wehrey
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hop… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
