American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Donald T. Critchlow
3.60
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political partie…
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
3. Mother Night
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
4. Deadeye Dick
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Deadeye Dickis Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a t… read more
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5. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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7. The Jungle Books
By: Rudyard Kipling , Alev Lytle Croutier
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also con… read more
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8. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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9. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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10. The Anti-Christ
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken
3.68
Format: 420 pages,
Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more
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11. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
By: Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is … read more
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12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
By: Richard Hofstadter , Christopher Lasch
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Introduction The founding fathers, an age of realism Thomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democrat A… read more
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15. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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16. Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more
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17. The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.26
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in… read more
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18. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
19. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
By: Roy Scranton
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Roy Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate crisis with an honesty that is all too r… read more
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20. To Be A Cat
By: Matt Haig
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Barney Willow thinks life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin … read more
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21. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
22. 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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"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
23. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
24. Bolla
By: Pajtim Statovci
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Kansainvälisen tähtikirjailijan lumoava romaani sokeasta rakkaudesta, sodasta, kodittomuudesta ja k… read more
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"Faced with death a person is as close to the radiance of life as can be. A lack of options is in fact a multitude of possibilities."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"War is born of war and there is no war that will end a war, and the disgust the boy caused was war’s finger, a fist shoved down the throat."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"One raised with fear never learns to live without it. When you take away its cause, fear manifests, becoming its own consequences – a lingering suspicion, hallucinations and waking dreams."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"Isn’t it strange how – again and again, as if to humiliate themselves – people fool themselves into thinking they can get time back somehow? How time only becomes important once it has passed?"-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
25. The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness
By: Jonas Salzgeber
4.18
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”– Epictetus, Stoic philoso… read more
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26. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
27. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
28. Innovation (The History of England, #6)
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.99
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Innovation , the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, t… read more
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- history
29. Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates o… read more
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30. American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness
By: Tea Krulos
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media while conspiracy advoca… read more
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31. American Political History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Donald T. Critchlow
3.60
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political partie… read more
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