The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
By: Karl Schlögel
4.25
Format: 928 pages, Hardcover
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Unio…
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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- russia
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- european history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
By: Jung Chang
3.90
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chin… read more
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"She was a giant, but no saint."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
"For all her faults, she was no despot."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
"For Cixi, what the Viceroy as done was best left unsaid."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
"Empress Dowager Cixi’s legacy was manifold and towering."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
3. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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4. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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5. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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6. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- history
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- european history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
7. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
8. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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9. 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
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"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
10. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- audiobook
11. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.50
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more
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12. Day of Ascension
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.92
Format: None pages, None
A Genestealer Cults Novel The people of forge world Morod have found a new hope against despair … read more
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13. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
14. Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
By: Peter Heather
3.59
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view bot… read more
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15. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By: Boyce Upholt
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more
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16. Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
By: Peter Heather
4.14
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the 4th century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, an… read more
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- history
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17. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
By: Karl Schlögel
4.25
Format: 928 pages, Hardcover
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Unio… read more
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- european history
- cities
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18. Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early … read more
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19. One Hundred Shadows
By: Hwang Jungeun
3.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more
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"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
20. Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
By: James Bradley
4.48
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is … read more
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21. Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
By: Roger Crowley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European mar… read more
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