The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States
By: Ronald Grigor Suny
3.89
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
The West has always had a difficult time understanding the Soviet Union. For decades Americans have…
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1. Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual Portrait
By: Maurice J. Meisner
3.83
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place am… read more
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2. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
3. The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam
By: Sidney H. Griffith
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundre… read more
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- history
4. Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
3.55
Format: 199 pages, ebook
Western esotericism has been a pervasive presence in Western culture from late antiquity to the pre… read more
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5. Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'
By: None , Nuel Emmons
3.86
Format: 240 pages,
We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as "the most dangerous man alive.… read more
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6. Islam and the Destiny of Man
By: Charles Le Gai Eaton
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion… read more
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7. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
By: Nicholson Baker
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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8. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream
By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more
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9. The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad
By: None , Sean W. Anthony
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
The Expeditionsis one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern … read more
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10. The Vengeful Djinn: Unveiling the Hidden Agenda of Genies
By: Rosemary Ellen Guiley , Philip J. Imbrogno
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
If you fear one thing in life, fear the djinn. This groundbreaking book presents the findings of Ro… read more
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11. A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
By: Michael L. Brown
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Forty years ago, most Americans said they didn't know anyone who was homosexual and claimed to know… read more
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12. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more
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13. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
By: Odd Arne Westad
4.25
Format: 194 pages,
The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we li… read more
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14. Anger: The Unauthorized Biography Of Kenneth Anger
By: Bill Landis
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Known worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is also an underground f… read more
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15. الرحيق المختوم
By: None
3.66
Format: None pages, ebook
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16. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
17. The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold
By: Tariq Ali
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and pe… read more
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18. A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples
By: Kevin B. MacDonald
4.04
Format: 598 pages, Paperback
This book attempts to understand an ancient people in terms of modern evolutionary biology. A basic… read more
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19. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States
By: Ronald Grigor Suny
3.89
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
The West has always had a difficult time understanding the Soviet Union. For decades Americans have… read more
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20. Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
By: William R. Polk
4.16
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
What really happened in the centuries of conflict between Europe, Russia, China, America, and the p… read more
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"Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims’ descendants [of the global south] will not. Muslims, like Jews, increasingly probe into and publicize their holocaust. The “dee…"-William R. Polk, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
21. Post-War Britain: A Political History
By: Alan Sked
3.54
Format: 478 pages, Paperback
This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Hea… read more
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