18 Top history books like Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault by John J. Mearsheimer

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Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

By: John J. Mearsheimer

3.88

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Conventional wisdom in the West blames the Ukraine crisis on Russian aggression. But this account i…

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1. The Concept of the Political

By: George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Just because a people no longer has the strength or the will to remain in the sphere of the political, does not make the political disappear from the world. Only a weak people disappears."

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

"The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grou…"

-George Schwab, The Concept of the Political

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2. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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3. Reflections on the Revolution in France

By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Monkey: The Journey to the West

By: Wu Cheng'en , Arthur Waley , Hu Shih

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresq… read more

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5. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Sublime Object of Ideology

By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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10. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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11. Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.17

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more

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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

12. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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13. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

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14. Critique of Pure Reason

By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer

3.96

Format: 785 pages, Paperback

'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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15. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

16. Letter from the Birmingham Jail

By: Martin Luther King Jr.

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

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17. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

18. 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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19. Anarchy, State, and Utopia

By: Robert Nozick

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held politi… read more

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20. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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21. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

By: Jordan B. Peterson

4.05

Format: 564 pages, Paperback

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

"...todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

"Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

"La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

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22. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • history
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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23. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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24. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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25. Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics

By: Bernardo Kastrup

4.40

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics if und… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1

By: Whitney Alyse Webb

4.32

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

One Nation Under Blackmail  is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly c… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

By: Noura Erakat

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-P… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and ind…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"Israel's establishment in 1948 realized Jewish Zionist settler sovereignty in Palestine. And its acceptance as a UN member state normalized the sovereign exception, justifying the erasure of Palestin…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"In light of the currently minimal protest at top diplomatic and multilateral levels, Israel, together with the United States, will continue to define its military practices as the new normal in asymm…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

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28. One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2

By: Whitney Alyse Webb

4.47

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly ce… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

By: John J. Mearsheimer

3.88

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Conventional wisdom in the West blames the Ukraine crisis on Russian aggression. But this account i… read more

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  • international relations
  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Faulty Powers: Who Started the Ukraine Crisis?

By: Michael McFaul

3.71

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Responding to Mearsheimer's controversial essay blaming the West for the Ukraine crisis, McFaul and… read more

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  • politics
  • history

17 Top politics books like Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault by John J. Mearsheimer

Transform Your Habits

The Concept of the Political

George Schwab , Carl Schmitt

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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7 best-selling politics books like The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau

Transform Your Habits

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau

3.50

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