China and Japan: Facing History
By: Ezra F. Vogel
4.14
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long…
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1. Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919 , Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a s… read more
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2. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more
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3. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
By: Herbert P. Bix
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herb… read more
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4. The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction
By: Amanda H. Podany
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-sh… read more
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5. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
By: John Toland
3.43
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more
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6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
7. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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- audiobook
8. One Man's View of the World
By: Lee Kuan Yew
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on tod… read more
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9. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
By: Charles Mackay
4.18
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited a… read more
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10. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
By: Noam Chomsky , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … read more
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11. The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: Thomas Childers
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of the Third Reich--how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and… read more
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12. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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13. On China
By: Henry Kissinger
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to… read more
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14. Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
By: Richard Miles
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death … read more
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15. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
By: Camille Fournier
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more
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16. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
17. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
18. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
19. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
20. 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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21. Korea: A New History of South and North
By: Victor Cha
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day … read more
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22. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
23. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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24. 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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25. A Message from Ukraine
By: Volodymyr Zelensky
4.64
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
An urgent call to arms from Time’s Person of the Year, the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courag… read more
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"Ukraine did not seek greatness. But Ukraine has become great."-Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine
26. In the Region of the Summer Stars (Eirlandia, #1)
By: Stephen R. Lawhead
4.11
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In the Region of the Summer Stars by Stephen R. Lawhead is the start of an epic fantasy adventure s… read more
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27. The World According to China
By: Elizabeth C. Economy
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherew… 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. China and Japan: Facing History
By: Ezra F. Vogel
4.14
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long… read more
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- japanese literature
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30. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
By: Peter Hessler
4.56
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more
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