Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
By: Noel Malcolm
3.63
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers…
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1. 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
2. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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3. Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
By: Husain Haqqani
3.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has bee… read more
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4. Black Sea
By: Neal Ascherson
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for History In this study of the fateful encounters betwee… read more
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5. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By: Bettany Hughes
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Hardcover
Istanbulexplores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputabl… read more
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6. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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7. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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8. Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
By: James Reston Jr.
3.75
Format: 352 pages,
Bir yanda sanli padisah Kanuni Sultan Suleyman, diger yanda Kutsal Roma-Germen Imparatoru Sarlken..… read more
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9. Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
By: Roger Crowley
3.93
Format: 265 pages,
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, d… read more
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10. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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11. Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
By: Oliver Bullough
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In his punchy follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World unravels the dark secre… read more
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12. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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13. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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14. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civili… read more
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"Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became…"-Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
15. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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16. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
By: Laurence Bergreen
3.91
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus brings ali… read more
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17. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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18. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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19. The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
By: Jamie Mackay
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands. Sicily has always acted as a gat… read more
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20. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.50
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more
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21. War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
By: Jeff Guinn
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charl… read more
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22. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
By: Jack Hartnell
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more
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23. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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24. Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
By: Alistair Moffat
3.89
Format: 843 pages, Kindle Edition
Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost “Deserves a … read more
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25. The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
By: Suzie Sheehy
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of… read more
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26. The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
By: Chris Gratien
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the mod… read more
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27. Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
4.19
Format: 664 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing th… read more
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28. Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
By: Eric R. Dursteler
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Otto… read more
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29. Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
By: Noel Malcolm
3.63
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers… read more
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30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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