13 best-selling nonfiction books like Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies by Kristian Niemietz

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Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies

By: Kristian Niemietz

4.06

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies by Kristian Niemietz , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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2. The Power of the Powerless

By: Václav Havel , John Keane

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, politica… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Liberalism

By: Ludwig von Mises , Bettina Bien Greaves

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This book presents the theoretical and practical arguments for liberalism. Mises contrasts liberali… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

By: Walter Mischel

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and ho… read more

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  • nonfiction

5. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

By: Steven Pinker

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more

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6. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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7. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

8. Who Rules the World?

By: Noam Chomsky

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the… read more

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9. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.00

Format: 136 pages,

In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more

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10. ایران بین دو انقلاب

By: Ervand Abrahamian , None , None

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian di… read more

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11. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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12. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

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13. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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14. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

By: Joseph Henrich

4.12

Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"

-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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15. Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

By: Alex Epstein

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data a… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

By: Tyler Cowen

3.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Co… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

By: Wilfred Reilly

4.00

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A college professor debunks the false liberal narratives which define much of America's school curr… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies

By: Kristian Niemietz

4.06

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred … read more

Similar categories in Kristian Niemietz's Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies book and Kristian Niemietz's Socialism: The Failed Idea that never Dies

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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19. Hitler's National Socialism

By: Rainer Zitelmann

4.38

Format: 638 pages, Paperback

Examining the reasons why Hitler was able to gain power so quickly in Germany, Rainer Zitelmann dem… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism

By: Nima Sanandaji

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Left-leaning academics, liberal pop stars such as Bruce Springsteen, and Democrat politicians from … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.16

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4.04

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Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

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4.28

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4.08

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Greg Lukianoff

3.93

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4.28

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4.18

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