The Essential John Stuart Mill (Essential Scholars)
By: Sandra J. Peart
4.16
Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition
The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he…
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1. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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- politics
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
2. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
By: Thomas Sowell
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Hardcover
This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general… read more
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- philosophy
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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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5. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge
4.47
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more
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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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7. 50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing: Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the t… read more
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8. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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9. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
10. Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
By: Frank Herbert
3.86
Format: 669 pages, Paperback
Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
11. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
12. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
By: Ryan Holiday
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case … read more
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"We must master ourselves unless we'd prefer to be mastered by someone or something else."-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
"We must practice temperance now, in times of plenty, because none of us know what the future holds- only that plenty never lasts."-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
13. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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14. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
By: Robert Leckie
4.22
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-per… read more
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"It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and i…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
"There was no feeling of dedication because it was absolutely involuntary. I do not doubt that if the Marines had asked for volunteers for an impossible campaign such as Guadalcanal, almost everyone n…"-Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
15. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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16. The Essential Natural Law (Essential Scholars)
By: Samuel Gregg
4.13
Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition
Few ideas have been as influential in the development of moral, political, legal, and economic thou… read more
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17. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED SOE and Italy 1943-1945 (David Stafford World War II History)
By: David Stafford
3.83
Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition
THE FIRST COMPLETE AND AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT OF BRITAIN’S SECRET WAR IN ITALY IN WW2.‘A gripping ac… read more
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18. The Essential John Locke (Essential Scholars)
By: Eric Mack
4.16
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
No single individual is ever the sole founder of any major stance in political philosophy. Neverthe… read more
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19. The Essential Robert Nozick (Essential Scholars)
By: Aeon J. Skoble
3.89
Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Nozick was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who is most famous for his contri… read more
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20. The Essential James Buchanan (Essential Scholars)
By: Donald J. Boudreaux
4.44
Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition
James (“Jim”) McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), surely seemed an unlikely prospect for winning a Nobel P… read more
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21. The Essential Joseph Schumpeter (Essential Scholars)
By: Russell S. Sobel
4.11
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
Joseph Schumpeter is one of the most accomplished economists of the twentieth century. Included amo… read more
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22. The Essential Austrian Economics
By: Christopher J. Coyne
4.11
Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition
The origin of the Austrian School of economics is the publication of Carl Menger’s Principles of Ec… read more
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23. The Essential Adam Smith (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
4.36
Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition
Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as econo… read more
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24. The Essential Milton Friedman (Essential Scholars)
By: Steven E. Landsburg
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
When economists are called “influential,” it usually means they’ve changed the way other economists… read more
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25. The Essential Ronald Coase (Essential Scholars)
By: Lynne Kiesling
4.17
Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition
Ronald Coase (1910-2013) was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His influe… read more
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26. The Essential Enlightenment (Essential Scholars)
By: Douglas J. Den Uyl
4.18
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early nineteenth centu… read more
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27. The Essential UCLA School of Economics (Essential Scholars)
By: David R. Henderson
4.13
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
The UCLA tradition carries on in the work of dozens of economists who earned their PhDs at UCLA dur… read more
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28. The Essential John Stuart Mill (Essential Scholars)
By: Sandra J. Peart
4.16
Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition
The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he… read more
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29. The Essential David Hume (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
4.35
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
David Hume (1711–1776) is a towering and intriguing figure. He was the preeminent philosopher in wh… read more
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30. The Essential Women of Liberty (Essential Scholars)
By: Fraser Institute
4.26
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
The thinkers discussed in this volume are a remarkably diverse group. They were born in the eightee… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
