Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1980
By: Gabriel Kolko
4.15
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Analyzes U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East and Latin America, and argues that the U.S. ha…
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1. The Radicalism of the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.08
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analys… read more
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"the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a so…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
"The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcel…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
2. Rosemary's Baby
By: Ira Levin
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more
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3. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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4. Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
By: Noam Chomsky
4.73
Format: None pages,
"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deepl… read more
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5. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz , Karl Polanyi , None
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and … read more
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6. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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8. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
9. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
10. Ulysses
By: Alfred Tennyson
4.50
Format: 142 pages,
Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to h… read more
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11. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
12. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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13. The Running Man
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.90
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives... Ben Richard… read more
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"Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk."-Stephen King, The Running Man
"Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one."-Stephen King, The Running Man
"The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it."-Stephen King, The Running Man
"...sie würden Christus persönlich überfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern."-Stephen King, The Running Man
14. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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15. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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16. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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17. World Orders, Old and New
By: Noam Chomsky
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This thought-provoking work is based upon a series of three lectures given by professor Chomsky as … read more
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18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
19. A Clockwork Orange
By: Anthony Burgess
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more
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"I was cured all right."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"I was always on my oddy knocky."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
20. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
21. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
By: M.E. O'Brien
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more
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22. Confronting the Third World: United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1980
By: Gabriel Kolko
4.15
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Analyzes U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East and Latin America, and argues that the U.S. ha… read more
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