6 best-selling history books like A History of Chinese Political Thought by Youngmin Kim

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A History of Chinese Political Thought

By: Youngmin Kim

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developmen…

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Cover of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

1. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • philosophy
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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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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  • philosophy
  • history
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3. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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4. The Histories

By: Tacitus , Kenneth Wellesley

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Edward Gibbon called The Historiesan 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the d… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history

5. Early Christian Thought & the Classical Tradition

By: Henry Chadwick

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

This enlightening study examines the relationship of the early Christians to the classical traditio… read more

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6. 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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  • philosophy
  • history
"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

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7. Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

By: Richard Overy

4.29

Format: 982 pages, Kindle Edition

'Overy has written many fine books, but Blood and Ruins is his masterpiece. It puts all previous si… read more

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  • history
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8. A History of Chinese Political Thought

By: Youngmin Kim

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developmen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • china
  • history

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