The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
By: S.C.M. Paine
4.13
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stu…
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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- world history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. Mastery
By: Robert Greene
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
In this book, Robert Greene demonstrates that the ultimate form of power is mastery itself. By anal… read more
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"Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The problem is that we humans are deep conformists."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus."-Robert Greene, Mastery
"Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit."-Robert Greene, Mastery
3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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4. 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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5. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
6. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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7. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
By: Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is … read more
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8. The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda
By: Yaroslav Trofimov
4.89
Format: 78 pages,
In "The Siege of Mecca," acclaimed journalist Yaroslav Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilli… read more
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9. 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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10. Shah of Shahs
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Shah of ShahsKapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear… read more
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11. Kissinger
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Ga… read more
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12. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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13. 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
14. 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
15. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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16. The Laws of Human Nature
By: Robert Greene
4.37
Format: 624 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book… read more
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"Fo each weakness there is a corresponding strength."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
"So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are."-Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
18. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
By: Rush Doshi
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more
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19. The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
By: Andrew F. Krepinevich
4.23
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challeng… read more
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20. The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
By: S.C.M. Paine
4.13
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stu… read more
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21. U.S.-Taiwan Relations
By: Ryan Hass
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Anxiety about China’s growing military capabilities to threaten Taiwan has induced alarm in Washing… read more
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