To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History
By: Mark J. Ravina
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Jap…
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1. The Crimean War: A History
By: Orlando Figes
4.06
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more
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"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History
2. Italian Shoes
By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a “short, beautiful, and ultimately li… read more
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"Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss."-Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes
"El odio puede ser fuente de energía sólo por un tiempo limitado. Nos infunde la ilusión de ser fuertes pero, ante todo, es un parásito que nos devora"-Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes
"I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life."-Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes
"We’re always being made promises,’ she said. ‘You make them yourself and you listen to others giving theirs. Politicians are always going on about providing a better quality of life for people as the…"-Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes
3. The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II
By: Saburo Ienaga
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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4. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
5. Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945
By: Jun Uchida
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians--merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalist… read more
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6. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
By: Rana Mitter
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan For decade… read more
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7. Vietnam: A New History
By: Christopher E. Goscha
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A 2017 Cundill History Prize Finalist "Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest… read more
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8. What Is History?
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more
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9. Japan at War: An Oral History
By: Haruko Taya Cook , Theodore F. Cook
3.92
Format: 358 pages,
This "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) portrays the Japanese experience of WWII. This oral histor… read more
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10. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
11. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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12. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
By: Frank Dikötter
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1… read more
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13. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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14. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more
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15. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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16. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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17. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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18. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
19. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.66
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more
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"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
20. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
21. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
22. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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23. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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24. 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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25. To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History
By: Mark J. Ravina
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Jap… read more
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26. The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China (Asian Arguments)
By: Kerry Brown
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currenc… read more
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- history
27. Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War (Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)
By: Gi-Wook Shin
3.67
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not… read more
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28. A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China (Princeton Studies in Contemporary China)
By: Andrew G. Walder
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the C… read more
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29. Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s)
By: Takashi Fujitani
4.09
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Perilous Memories makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war memory in… read more
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30. War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
By: Franziska Seraphim
3.86
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat,… read more
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