The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
By: Franz Borkenau
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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1. Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
By: Antony Beevor , Artemis Cooper
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis C… read more
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2. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By: Antony Beevor
3.91
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more
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- spanish civil war
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3. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
4. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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5. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
By: Paul Preston
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggle… read more
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6. The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
By: Humphrey Carpenter
4.08
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
During the 1930s at Oxford, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams met regularly to discu… read more
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- history
7. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
8. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
9. Crome Yellow
By: Aldous Huxley
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gath… read more
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10. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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11. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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12. 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
13. Spanish Testament
By: Arthur Koestler
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Spanish Testament is a 1937 book by Arthur Koestler, describing his experiences during the Spanish … read more
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14. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
15. The Day of the Jackal
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more
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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
16. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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17. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
18. A Long Petal of the Sea
By: Isabel Allende
4.06
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continen… read more
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"Despite being English, they served an edible meal."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is"-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"Victor's nephew was plump and bald: all babies that age looked like Winston Churchill to him."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
"Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish."-Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea
19. Measure What Matters
By: John Doerr
3.99
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more
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"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"-John Doerr, Measure What Matters
20. The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
By: Franz Borkenau
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"...not only a model of what the study of revolution should be, but one of the best books ever publ… read more
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21. Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
By: Paul Preston
4.07
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new his… read more
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