5 best-selling nonfiction books like On the Art of Building in Ten Books (Mit Press) by Leon Battista Alberti

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On the Art of Building in Ten Books (Mit Press)

By: Leon Battista Alberti

4.01

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

De Re Aedificatoria , by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the th…

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Cover of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Serge L. Levitsky

1. 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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  • nonfiction
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2. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

3. Oration on the Dignity of Man (None)

By: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , A. Robert Gaponigri

3.06

Format: 220 pages,

An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, maki… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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5. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Cover of On the Art of Building in Ten Books (Mit Press) by Leon Battista Alberti

6. On the Art of Building in Ten Books (Mit Press)

By: Leon Battista Alberti

4.01

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

De Re Aedificatoria , by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • 15th century

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Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

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4.02

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3.71

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