A Modern History of the Somali (Eastern African Studies)
By: I.M. Lewis
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisat…
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1. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By: Caroline Elkins
4.04
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Only a few years after Britain's participation in the victory over fascism came the Mau Mau uprisin… read more
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2. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
3. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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- africa
"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
4. Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State
By: Mary Harper
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Somalia is a comprehensively failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbors, and the … read more
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- nonfiction
- somalia
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5. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
By: Gerald Hanley
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely… read more
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- nonfiction
- somalia
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7. Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
By: James McFarlane , Thorkild Hansen , Kathleen McFarlane
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original Arabia Felixis the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gon… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most … read more
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- nonfiction
- somalia
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9. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
11. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- nonfiction
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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13. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
14. The Shadow King
By: Maaza Mengiste
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more
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- africa
"The routine dulls the terror."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"He holds no importance except what memory allows."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
16. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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17. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
By: Ibn Khaldun
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Written by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history.… read more
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"اعلم أن الدنيا كلها و أحوالها (عند الشارع) مطية للآخرة، و من فقد المطية فقد الوصول."-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"قال المولي مخاطباً بني إسرائيل علي لسان موسى {يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الأَرْضَ المُقَدَّسَةَ} فكان جوابهم {إِنَّ فِيهَا قَوْمًا جَبَّارِينَ وَإِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَا حَتَّىَ يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا فَإِن يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا} وقالوا له {فَاذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلا} = فعاقبهم …"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"من كان مرباه بالعسف والقهر من المتعلمين أو المماليك أو الخدم سطا به القهر، وضيّق على النفس فى انبساطها، وذهب بنشاطها، ودعاه إلى الكسل، وحُمِلَ على الكذب والخبث وهو التظاهر بغير ما فى ضميره خوفـًا من انبسا…"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
"الفصل الثالث و العشرون : في أنالمغلوب مولع ابدا بالاقتداء بالغالب في شعاره, و زيه,و نحلته, و سائر أحواله و عوائده: و السبب في ذلك: أن النفس أبدا تعتقد الكمال في من غلبها و انقادت إليه. إما لنظره بالك…"-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
18. Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally
By: Dan Joseph
4.16
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule ove… read more
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- nonfiction
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19. Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab
By: Mary Harper
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Al Shabaab is one of the century’s most successful violent jihadist movements. It has governing pow… read more
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20. A Modern History of the Somali (Eastern African Studies)
By: I.M. Lewis
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisat… read more
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21. The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History (Mit Press)
By: Jean-Pierre Chrétien
3.55
Format: 504 pages, Paperback
Although the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language hist… read more
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