Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
By: Roderick Matthews
3.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
How can we explain the establishment and longevity of British rule in India without recourse to the…
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By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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3. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
By: Amartya Sen
3.83
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual… read more
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"While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
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"It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!"-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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5. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
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6. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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7. Lying
By: Sam Harris
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vic… read more
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By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
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9. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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10. 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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By: Adrian Goldsworthy
3.95
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12. Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
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4.28
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In this exciting new graphic novel, economist Bryan Caplan examines how changes to housing regulati… read more
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13. Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
By: Roderick Matthews
3.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
How can we explain the establishment and longevity of British rule in India without recourse to the… read more
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