Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
By: Klaus Mühlhahn
4.19
Format: 721 pages, Kindle Edition
A panoramic survey of China’s rise and resilience through war and rebellion, disease and famine, th…
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1. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
By: Michael Pillsbury
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more
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2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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4. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more
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"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
5. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
By: Jason Fung
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Why you've never been able to lose weight, and how that can change now Everything you believe about… read more
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6. 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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7. American Dreams: The United States Since 1945
By: H.W. Brands
1.00
Format: None pages,
From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided… read more
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8. Death or Glory
By: Sandy Mitchell
4.22
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Yet again, reluctant hero Commissar Cain is catapulted into glory in the fourth story of this treme… read more
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9. A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War
By: Williamson Murray , None
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive… read more
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10. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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11. The Traitor's Hand
By: Sandy Mitchell
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Commissar Ciaphas Cain is a man who, despite his best attempts to avoid danger and live the easy li… read more
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12. 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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13. For The Emperor
By: Sandy Mitchell
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Commisar Ciaphas Cain - hero of the Imperium and renowned across the sector for his bravery and val… read more
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14. Duty Calls
By: Sandy Mitchell
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
While assisting local forces quell widespread civil disorder, Commissar Cain and his regiment of Va… read more
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15. Caves of Ice
By: Sandy Mitchell
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Still attached to the Valhallans, Commissar Ciaphas Cain fights orcs and necrons on the ice world o… read more
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16. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
17. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic
By: Maurice J. Meisner
4.07
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensiv… read more
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18. How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
By: Nina Jankowicz
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake… read more
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19. The Story of Greece and Rome
By: Tony Spawforth
3.70
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more… read more
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20. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
By: Klaus Mühlhahn
4.19
Format: 721 pages, Kindle Edition
A panoramic survey of China’s rise and resilience through war and rebellion, disease and famine, th… read more
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21. The Last Correspondent
By: Michael Smith
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The ultimate insider’s account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic a… read more
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