Understanding Modern Warfare
By: David Jordan
4.09
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
A major study of the theory and practice of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Us…
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1. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more
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"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
2. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
3. Understanding Naval Warfare
By: Ian Speller
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This new textbook offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
- war
4. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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- nonfiction
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
5. The Penguin History of the USA
By: Hugh Brogan
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Rea… read more
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6. Journey to the Center of the Earth
By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more
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"Axel,"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"Then don’t you despair?"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"I dream with my eyes open."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
7. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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8. Eye of the Needle
By: Ken Follett
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthle… read more
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9. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
By: Robert M. Pirsig
3.78
Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more
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"This forest silence improves anyone."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"The more you read, the more you calm down."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
10. On War
By: Michael Eliot Howard , Carl von Clausewitz , Peter Paret
3.75
Format: None pages,
Carl von Clausewitz's On Warhas been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great boo… read more
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11. Engineers of Victory: The Making of the War Machine That Defeated the Nazis
By: Paul Kennedy
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powersand one of today's most … read more
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12. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more
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13. Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
By: Tom Clancy
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task… read more
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14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
15. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
16. War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Is peace an aberration? The bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an… read more
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17. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
By: Frank Herbert
3.88
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"But you invite ..."-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"In the wrong hands,"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"Only fools prefer the past!"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"For what do you hunger, Lord?"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
18. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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19. Armoede uitgelegd aan mensen met geld
By: Tim 'S Jongers
4.16
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In een land geregeerd door welvarende, hogeropgeleide mensen wordt op een beperkte en soms zelfs sc… read more
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20. Understanding Modern Warfare
By: David Jordan
4.09
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
A major study of the theory and practice of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Us… read more
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21. Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the present day
By: Jeremy Black
3.62
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Completely unique in its global scope, this major text does what no other book in the field provid… read more
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