A Crucible of Nations: The Geopolitics of the Caucasus
By: Lauren Goodrich
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The Caucasus region historically has served as a battleground between the empires of old, with a de…
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1. Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
By: Joe Abercrombie
4.34
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a b… read more
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"You have to realistic about these things."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
"Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
"Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
2. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
3. Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
By: Joe Abercrombie
4.35
Format: 441 pages, Trade Paperback
Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with trai… read more
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"So we wait?"-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
"Empathy? What’s that?"-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
"Great men have great faults."-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
"Those with the least always lose the most in war."-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
5. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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6. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
By: Niall Ferguson
3.39
Format: 414 pages,
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- international relations
- history
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- economics
8. The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
By: Peter Zeihan
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible. Terrorism spills out of the Middle … read more
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9. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
By: Peter Zeihan
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER… read more
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10. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
11. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
By: Frank Herbert
3.88
Format: 587 pages, Paperback
Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"But you invite ..."-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"In the wrong hands,"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"Only fools prefer the past!"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
"For what do you hunger, Lord?"-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
12. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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- history
13. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
14. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- economics
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- nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
15. 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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- economics
16. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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- economics
- history
- nonfiction
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
17. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
By: Ray Dalio
4.28
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more
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18. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
By: Saifedean Ammous
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digi… read more
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- economics
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- nonfiction
"According to Cantillon, the beneficiaries from the expansion of the money supply are the first recipients of the new money, who are able to spend it before it has caused prices to rise. Whoever recei…"-Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
19. Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
By: Peter Zeihan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the … read more
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"In many ways, industrialization is a straitjacket. The suite of industrial technologies improves literacy and mobility and reach and wealth and health, but without the inputs of oil, natural gas, iro…"-Peter Zeihan, Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
20. Bronze Age Mindset
By: Bronze Age Pervert
3.84
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more
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"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset
21. The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
By: Peter Zeihan
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American… read more
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22. A Crucible of Nations: The Geopolitics of the Caucasus
By: Lauren Goodrich
4.18
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The Caucasus region historically has served as a battleground between the empires of old, with a de… read more
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