The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development
By: Yuhua Wang
4.30
Format: 352 pages, None
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower f…
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1. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars i… read more
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2. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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3. The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more
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4. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806
By: Jonathan I. Israel
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford His… read more
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5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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6. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
By: Milan W. Svolik
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must r… read more
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7. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
By: Elinor Ostrom
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Neither the state nor the market have been successful in solving common pool resource problems. Thi… read more
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8. Escape from Freedom
By: Erich Fromm
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably… read more
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10. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
By: William Deresiewicz
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and l… read more
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11. Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
By: None , None
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works -- don't just sta… read more
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12. What Is Populism?
By: Jan-Werner Müller
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo ChAvez--populists are on the rise across the g… read more
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13. Persian Letters
By: Montesquieu , None
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more
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14. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
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15. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
16. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
17. 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
18. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
By: Desmond Shum
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more
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19. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
By: Franklin Foer
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more
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20. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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21. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more
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22. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By: Adeeb Khalid
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central As… read more
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23. How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
By: Mark Koyama
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth… read more
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24. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.98
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more
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25. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
4.06
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but b… read more
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"foundational physics, which is far from experimental test as science can be while still being science"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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"Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can't explain what was not observed"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
26. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
By: Leta Hong Fincher
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement threatens China's authoritarian gov… read more
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"if sons and daughters are treated equally, raised and educated in the same manner, then the responsibilities assumed by men and women would surely become equal. when that happens, the nouns 'man' and…"-Leta Hong Fincher, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
27. Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy, Series Number 9)
By: Adam Przeworski
4.00
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
The political institutions under which we live today evolved from a revolutionary idea that shook t… read more
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28. Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
By: Alexander V. Pantsov
3.96
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, o… read more
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29. The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development
By: Yuhua Wang
4.30
Format: 352 pages, None
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower f… read more
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30. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
By: Scott Rozelle
4.24
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from … read more
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