The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
By: David A. Bell
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Using eighteenth-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an important new argument about …
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1. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
2. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
3. Ill Fares the Land
By: Tony Judt
4.18
Format: 306 pages,
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares Th… read more
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4. 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
5. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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6. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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7. The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more
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8. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on moder… read more
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9. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have reinforced the central importance of … read more
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10. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
11. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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12. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
By: None , Willard R. Trask , Erich Auerbach
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a mon… read more
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13. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
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"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
14. How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world wh… read more
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"The reward of friendship is friendship itself."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
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15. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
By: David A. Bell
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Using eighteenth-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an important new argument about … read more
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