A Brief History of Christianity (Brief Histories)
By: Bamber Gascoigne
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It …
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1. The Art of War
By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary
3.95
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more
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"Never venture, never win!"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Danger has a bracing effect."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"If his forces are united, separate them."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
2. Alexander the Great
By: Philip Freeman
4.31
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a gen… read more
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3. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
4. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
5. Islam: A Short History
By: Karen Armstrong
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imag… read more
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6. A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation
By: Geoffrey Hindley
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
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7. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
By: Tamim Ansary
3.87
Format: 144 pages,
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more
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8. A Brief History of the Normans: How the Viking Tribe Came to Conquer Europe
By: None
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
10. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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11. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
12. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
By: Martin Lings
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Martin Lings' biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritati… read more
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13. 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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14. The Shortest History of Germany
By: James Hawes
3.72
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more
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- nonfiction
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany
15. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more
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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
16. The Richest Man in Babylon
By: George S. Clason
4.25
Format: 162 pages, Hardcover
The Richest Man in Babylon is an early twentieth century classic about financial investment and mon… read more
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"ليس بالشيء الطيب أن يجلس الرجل بلا عمل"-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
"إن روح المماطلة موجودة في داخل كل إنسان"-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
"As for time, all men have it in abundance."-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
"Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts."-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
17. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
18. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
19. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
By: Otto English
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies eve… read more
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20. A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
By: John Barton
4.09
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents wer… read more
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21. A Brief History of Christianity (Brief Histories)
By: Bamber Gascoigne
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It … read more
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