Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
By: Jürgen Osterhammel
4.03
Format: 681 pages, Kindle Edition
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizati…
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1. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
By: Walter Isaacson , Evan Thomas
4.09
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original be… read more
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2. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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3. The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more
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4. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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5. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
7. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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8. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
By: Yuri Slezkine
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The House of Governmentis unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experim… read more
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9. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
By: Bill Browder
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more
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10. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
By: Timothy Brook
3.20
Format: 160 pages,
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11. Gift
By: Tove Ditlevsen , Dy Plambeck
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
I sin tredje erindringsbog vender Tove Ditlevsen tilbage til sin ungdom og fortaeller om det kaerli… read more
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12. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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13. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.21
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more
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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
14. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
By: Tony Fadell
4.33
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more
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15. 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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- history
- china
- audiobook
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
16. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
17. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
18. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
19. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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21. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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22. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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- history
- china
- audiobook
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
23. In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
By: Sebastian Strangio
4.26
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A timely look at the impact of China’s booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia “An ex… read more
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24. The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
By: David Gilmour
4.01
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Indepen… read more
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- world history
- asia
- nonfiction
- european history
25. Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
By: Philip Goff
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radical… read more
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26. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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- history
- audiobook
27. The Future Is Asian
By: Parag Khanna
3.72
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in … read more
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- japan
- china
28. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
By: Toby Green
4.05
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019 An Observer and Wall St… read more
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- history
- world history
29. On Tyranny
By: Timothy Snyder
4.57
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed histo… read more
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30. Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
By: Jürgen Osterhammel
4.03
Format: 681 pages, Kindle Edition
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizati… read more
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