Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: James R. Rush
3.92
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions…
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1. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
2. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
By: Tim Jeal
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Lady Windermere's Fan
By: Oscar Wilde
3.66
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan… read more
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5. Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
By: Nisid Hajari
3.98
Format: None pages, ebook
Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody -- it was supposed to… read more
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- asia
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Madman
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Halil Cibran, genclik doneminin urunu ve sonraki yapitlarinin habercisi olan Meczup'ta, toplum onun… read more
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7. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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- asia
- history
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8. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
11. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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12. The Complete Fairy Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more
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13. Indonesia, Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation
By: Elizabeth Pisani
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of po… read more
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14. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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15. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
By: Richard Francis Burton , Mallanaga Vātsyāyana
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sir Richard F. Burton's translation of The Kama Sutraremains one of the best English interpretation… read more
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16. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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17. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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18. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
19. 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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"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
20. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
21. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
22. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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23. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more
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"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
24. Nightwing, Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light
By: Tom Taylor
4.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling Injustice team of Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo take on Nightwing! … read more
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25. North Korea Journal
By: Michael Palin
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more
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"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal
26. Socrates (Comixology Originals)
By: Francesco Barilli
3.81
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
Athens, 399 BC. In what may be remembered as the first trial for crimes of opinion, Socrates is sen… read more
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27. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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29. A Short History of South-East Asia
By: Peter Church
3.57
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
"If one could only have one book on South-East Asian history, this incisive and accessible book wil… read more
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30. Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: James R. Rush
3.92
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions… read more
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