Bigger than History: Why Archaeology Matters
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Why Archaeology Matters Today An exciting and much anticipated new archaeology title written by ti…
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1. We Should All Be Feminists
By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.40
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am just as human as the man."-None, We Should All Be Feminists
"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."-None, We Should All Be Feminists
"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."-None, We Should All Be Feminists
"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"-None, We Should All Be Feminists
2. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
4. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
5. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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6. 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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- history
- nonfiction
7. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
9. Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory
By: Adrian Praetzellis
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
A European Neolithic burial. A large stone Venus. Nothing unusual about it_except that it was found… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
10. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more
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11. Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley
3.99
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vi… read more
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"Pain was a fascinating horror"-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Ending is better than mending."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"The more stitches, the less riches."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
12. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
13. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
16. For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
By: Hannah F. Whitten
3.61
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
The first daughter is for the Throne. The second daughter is for the Wolf. As the only Second… read more
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"Foolish men are easy to rule."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
"She was going into the Wilderwood to save everyone she loved from herself."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
"Sometimes you don't mourn people so much as you mourn who they could've been."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
"Because monsters are real," she said. "And even the Wolf needs help sometimes."-Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf (Wilderwood, #1)
17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
18. How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
By: Mary Beard
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
"One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be uncivilised, with those who do not -o…"-Mary Beard, How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
19. Archaeology
By: David Hurst Thomas
3.67
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
This new edition by David Hurst Thomas and Robert L. Kelly pairs two of archaeology's most recogniz… read more
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- nonfiction
- archaeology
20. Bigger than History: Why Archaeology Matters
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Why Archaeology Matters Today An exciting and much anticipated new archaeology title written by ti… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
21. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
