9 must-read history books like Il secolo degli Stati Uniti by Arnaldo Testi

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Il secolo degli Stati Uniti

By: Arnaldo Testi

4.00

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Testi presenta una sintesi compatta e aggiornata dedicata agli Stati Uniti del Novecento. Il volume…

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1. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.28

Format: 627 pages, Paperback

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"

-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

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2. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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3. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Kobane calling

By: Zerocalcare

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Tre viaggi nel corso di un anno. Turchia, Iraq, Siria, per documentare la vita della resistenza cur… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

By: Marc Bloch , Joseph R. Strayer , None

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques… read more

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7. 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

8. Pensiero e azione del Risorgimento

By: None

3.89

Format: 575 pages, Paperback

"Che cosa dobbiamo intendere per Risorgimento italiano, e innanzi tutto che cosa sia che ri-sorga..… read more

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9. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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10. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

11. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

By: George L. Mosse

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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12. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more

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13. The Italian Risorgimento: State, Society and National Unification

By: Lucy Riall

3.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Risorgimento was a turbulent and decisive period in the history of Italy. Lucy Riall's engaging… read more

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14. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons

By: C.A. Bayly

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the w… read more

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15. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

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16. A Crane Among Wolves

By: June Hur

4.03

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that w… read more

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"What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands." "Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly se…"

-June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves

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17. Il fascismo eterno

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

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18. Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

By: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

3.70

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

We live in a time of global crisis—or, more appropriately, overlapping, interlocking global proble… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Il paese mancato. Dal miracolo economico agli anni ottanta

By: Guido Crainz

3.93

Format: 627 pages, Paperback

Dalla fine degli anni sessanta ai primi anni ottanta il paese è attraversato da sommovimenti profon… read more

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  • history
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20. Il secolo degli Stati Uniti

By: Arnaldo Testi

4.00

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Testi presenta una sintesi compatta e aggiornata dedicata agli Stati Uniti del Novecento. Il volume… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Storia della Germania (Italian Edition)

By: Gustavo Corni

3.71

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

La Germania è da sempre un enigma di non facile interpretazione per gli altri popoli, nel bene e ne… read more

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  • history
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22. Manuale di scienza politica

By: Giliberto Capano

3.00

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

Questo articolo è acquistabile con il Bonus Cultura e con il Bonus Carta del Docente quando venduto… read more

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23. La politica pop online: I meme e le nuove sfide della comunicazione politica

By: Gianpietro Mazzoleni

3.73

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Milioni di persone si scatenano ogni giorno, in tutto il mondo, su Facebook, Instagram e Twitter a … read more

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9 must-read nonfiction books like Il secolo degli Stati Uniti by Arnaldo Testi

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Kobane calling

Zerocalcare

4.10

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13 Best classics books like Apology by Plato, James J. Helm

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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Poetics

Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

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