The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War
By: Jacques R. Pauwels
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusadin…
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1. "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
By: Sven Lindqvist , Joan Tate
4.22
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
"Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the … read more
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"Přesně toho jsem se bál. A přesně po tom jsem toužil."-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions."-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"The Norweigian philosopher Tonnesen said that to think about anything but death is evasion. Society, art, culture, the whole of civilisation is nothing but evasion, one great collective self delusion…"-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our way up a narrow staircase. The bannister is a thick rope suggesting safety. The stai…"-Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
2. War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.47
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, … read more
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3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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4. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
6. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more
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7. The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
By: Jefferson Morley
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived." - Tim Weiner, National B… read more
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8. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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9. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
10. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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11. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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12. The Invention of the Jewish People
By: Yael Lotan , Shlomo Sand
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Isr… read more
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13. Planet of Slums
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more
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14. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- nonfiction
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
16. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more
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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
17. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- the united states of america
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- united states
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
18. Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.42
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war … read more
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19. Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.46
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Available for the first time in English, this book examines and reinterprets class struggle within … read more
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20. The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War
By: Jacques R. Pauwels
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusadin… read more
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21. Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
By: David F. Noble
3.97
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A provocative discussion of the role of technology and its accompanying rhetoric of limitless progr… read more
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