Revolutions: How They Changed History and What They Mean Today
By: Peter Furtado
3.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether it’s because their rhetoric—“liberty, fraternity, equality”—articulates those ideals to whi…
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1. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
2. Reform or Revolution
By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός
4.20
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more
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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
3. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
By: Helen Graham
3.87
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a par… read more
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"The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup."-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
"The Spanish Civil War was the first fought in Europe in which civilians became targets en masse, through bombing raids on big cities."-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
"Notwithstanding the currency of ideas about ‘two Spains’ ready to confront each other on 18 July 1936, ‘us’ and ‘them’ were categories actively made by the violent experience of the war and did not f…"-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
"The absence of a functioning police force or judiciary in Republican territory in the first weeks after the coup, plus the de facto amnesties that saw gaols empty, made it possible for all manner of …"-Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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5. Cambodia: A Report from a Stricken Land
By: Henry Kamm
3.50
Format: 192 pages,
Last year, the death of Pol Pot, the ruthless dictator of the 1970's, marked the end of an era of f… read more
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6. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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7. Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
By: Jack A. Goldstone
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social… read more
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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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9. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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10. 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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11. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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12. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
By: Eugene Rogan
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more
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13. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson , Donald Goldsmith
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
"An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics… read more
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14. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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15. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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16. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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17. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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18. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
19. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
20. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
21. Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5)
By: Travis Baldree
3.63
Format: 33 pages, ebook
Short story prequel to Legends & Lattes. It is available in the book Legends & Lattes, second editi… read more
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22. 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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"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
23. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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24. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
25. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
By: Michael Wolff
3.44
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes i… read more
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26. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
27. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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28. The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions
By: Arash Azizi
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
‘An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.’ Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wa… read more
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29. Revolutions: How They Changed History and What They Mean Today
By: Peter Furtado
3.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether it’s because their rhetoric—“liberty, fraternity, equality”—articulates those ideals to whi… read more
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30. The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II
By: Jonathan Haslam
3.65
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World W… read more
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