Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China
By: Ralph Townsend
4.26
Format: 336 pages, None
A harsh critique of Chinese society and culture, Ways That Are Dark was written at a time when Chin…
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1. The Concept of the Political
By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more
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"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political
2. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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3. Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
By: Daniel L. Everett
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett w… read more
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4. Chickenhawk
By: Robert Mason
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more
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5. The Camp of the Saints
By: Norman R. Shapiro , Jean Raspail
3.63
Format: 416 pages,
By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface … read more
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6. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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7. The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
By: John Bagot Glubb
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Sun and Steel
By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more
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9. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
10. Platform
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.80
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more
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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"-Michel Houellebecq, Platform
11. No Surrender
By: Hiroo Onoda , Charles S. Terry
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Army made world headlines when… read more
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12. The Fool's Progress
By: Edward Abbey
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece … read more
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13. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
15. False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
By: Bjørn Lomborg
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Art… read more
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16. Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel
By: Pyotr Wrangel
4.48
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdi… read more
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17. Mine Were of Trouble
By: Peter Kemp
4.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Spain, 1936. Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Milita… read more
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18. Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China
By: Ralph Townsend
4.26
Format: 336 pages, None
A harsh critique of Chinese society and culture, Ways That Are Dark was written at a time when Chin… read more
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