Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World
By: Jairus Victor Grove
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ec…
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1. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
By: Chris Hedges
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege."-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living."-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have ma…"-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a socie…"-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
2. What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
By: Hal Brands
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
4. A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By: Rebecca Solnit
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
5. And the Mountains Echoed
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.07
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Par… read more
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"Who rebels with mathematics?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
6. The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
By: Robert Bevan
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1… read more
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7. Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
4.18
Format: 501 pages, ebook
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on… read more
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"Please provide location and density of mass!"-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
"We don’t have time to amend your dogshit educations!"-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
"To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean."-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
"I ... suppose I find you ... refreshingly uncontained."-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
8. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- environment
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
9. How Beautiful We Were
By: Imbolo Mbue
3.95
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, … read more
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- environment
"But my father used to say we can’t do only what we’re at ease with, we must do what we ought to do."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"much of the suffering in the world was because of those who had forgotten that they too were once children."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"Only with him did I come to realize how much noise there is in the world, and how marvelous it is not to be a part of it."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"... if everyone only did what they ought to do, who would do the things no one thought they had to do? What did enjoyment have to do with duty?"-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
10. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
By: Matthew T. Huber
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more
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- politics
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
11. The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace
By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
4.20
Format: 656 pages, ebook
A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Col… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
12. American Pendulum: Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
By: Christopher M Hemmer
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign … read more
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13. Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World
By: Jairus Victor Grove
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ec… read more
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- futurism
- ecology
- history
- politics
- war
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
14. Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (Modern War Studies)
By: William A. Taylor
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"When I became secretary of defense," Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would… read more
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15. Globalization and War
By: Tarak Barkawi
3.89
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
War doesn't just tear nations apart―it brings peoples and places closer together, providing a new l… read more
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- history
16. Snow Crash
By: Neal Stephenson
4.02
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more
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"They made data a controlled substance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
