11 Best history books like Los judíos by Jesús Mosterín

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Los judíos

By: Jesús Mosterín

3.88

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

La «Historia del pensamiento» de Jesús Mosterín está integrada por libros monográficos autónomos, q…

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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3. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more

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"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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4. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

By: Gilles Deleuze , Robert Hurley

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, … read more

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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • history
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6. Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil

By: Ewald Osers , Rüdiger Safranski

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no … read more

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  • history
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7. Nove saggi danteschi

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Tommaso Scarano

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Di Dante, come di tanti altri scrittori, Borges si e dimostrato capace di dirci cio che altrove non… read more

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8. La colmena

By: Camilo José Cela

3.89

Format: 575 pages,

En el Madrid de la posguerra, un bullicioso enjambre humano se afana en comer caliente, esquivar el… read more

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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. Introducción a la Grecia Antigua

By: None

3.00

Format: 1118 pages,

Si bien es indudable que Grecia ha constituido un punto de referencia ineludible en todos los campo… read more

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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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"(...) 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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12. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

13. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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14. The Palace of Dreams

By: Ismail Kadare

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, … read more

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15. 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

16. A sangre y fuego: Héroes, bestias y mártires de España

By: Manuel Chaves Nogales

4.15

Format: None pages,

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17. Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

By: Isaiah Berlin

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of socialis… read more

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18. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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19. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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20. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

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21. Le dedico mi silencio

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

3.55

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA La historia de un hombre que soñó… read more

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22. Yeguas exhaustas

By: Bibiana Collado Cabrera

4.18

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Una madre, con los dedos rígidos de triar naranjas en un almacén y limpiar pisos de vacaciones de o… read more

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"El autoodio, más o menos matizado, fue nuestra gran herencia"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Como todos sabéis, la educación femenina es esencialmente masoquista"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Probablemente uno de los motivos por los que fui una niña lectora era porque tenía que llenar todas las horas en que mi madre trabajaba"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Crecer consistió en ir entendiendo los motivos por los que mi madre casi siempre estaba seria y triste. El principal de ellos era sencillo, sencillo y apabullante: estaba cansada. No cansada metafóri…"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

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23. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenste… read more

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  • history
Cover of La città dei vivi by Nicola Lagioia

24. La città dei vivi

By: Nicola Lagioia

4.20

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Nel marzo 2016, in un anonimo appartamento della periferia romana, due ragazzi di buona famiglia di… read more

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"Ci sono le città dei vivi, popolate da morti. E poi ci sono le città dei morti, le uniche dove la vita abbia ancora un senso."

-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

"Distruggere il più debole. Oppure indebolire il più forte per poi distruggerlo. L'aggressione come garanzia per la sopravvivenza. Colpire per sottrarsi alla paura di essere colpiti. Sentirsi impotent…"

-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

"«A questo punto mi pare evidente che il problema siamo noi, – fece uno degli scrittori, – intendo noi romani, la classe dirigente è lo specchio del nostro marciume, tutto è marcio, anche i turisti. I…"

-Nicola Lagioia, La città dei vivi

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25. Personality and Power

By: Ian Kershaw

3.88

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive bio… read more

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  • history
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26. The Possession

By: Annie Ernaux

3.75

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more

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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

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27. La piedra permanece: Historias de Bosnia-Herzegovina

By: Marc Casals

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Entre abril de 1992 y diciembre de 1995, el pequeño país de Bosnia-Herzegovina fue el escenario de … read more

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28. Los judíos

By: Jesús Mosterín

3.88

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

La «Historia del pensamiento» de Jesús Mosterín está integrada por libros monográficos autónomos, q… read more

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  • history
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29. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

Transform Your Habits

July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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