The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
By: Charles S Maier
3.50
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We …
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1. How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention
By: Susan Rose Blauner
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An international epidemic, suicide has touched the lives of nearly half of all Americans, yet is ra… read more
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2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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3. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more
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- politics
- history
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4. 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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5. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
By: Tyler Cowen
3.43
Format: None pages, ebook
America is in disarray and our economy is failing us. We have been through the biggest financial cr… read more
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6. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
7. A History of the Middle East
By: Peter Mansfield , Nicolas Pelham
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Over the centuries, the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. … read more
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8. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
By: Michael Cox
3.88
Format: 496 pages,
An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more
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9. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
10. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- history
11. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
12. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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13. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- history
16. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
By: Simon Kuper
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
18. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
20. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
21. For Profit: A History of Corporations
By: William Magnuson
3.99
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Fr… read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
22. They Flew: A History of the Impossible
By: Carlos M.N. Eire
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. After Work: The Politics of Free Time
By: Helen Hester
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
24. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
25. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
26. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
27. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
28. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
29. The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
By: Charles S Maier
3.50
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We … read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
30. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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31. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
By: Lauren Benton
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest a… read more
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