Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
By: Colin S. Gray
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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1. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
By: Jocko Willink , Leif Babin
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Le… read more
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2. 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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3. The Lessons of History
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
4.07
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more
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"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"-Will Durant, The Lessons of History
4. The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
By: Dallas Willard , Richard J. Foster
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In th… read more
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"Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious."-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
"The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said."-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
"Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him."-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
"(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not dimin…"-Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
5. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
By: Elmore Leonard
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more
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"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
6. Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
By: Walter Russell Mead
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
International affairs expert and award-winning author of Special ProvidenceWalter Russell Mead here… read more
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7. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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8. Hombre
By: Elmore Leonard
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more
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9. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
By: Charles Robert Jenkins
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his po… read more
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10. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
By: Ori Brafman , Rod A. Beckstrom
3.87
Format: None pages,
If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off … read more
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11. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
By: Daniel Coyle
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides readers with a … read more
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12. The First Salute
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.76
Format: 336 pages,
Presents a fresh view of the American Revolution, chronicling key events from 1776 to 1781 and asse… read more
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13. Maximum Bob
By: Elmore Leonard
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Hilarious....Strange and risky....A right-on, pitch perfect novel, with wide social scope, comic g… read more
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14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
15. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
16. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
17. Letters to the Church
By: Francis Chan
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
If God had it His way, what would your church look like? The New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"You can’t fully mature without being attacked."-Francis Chan, Letters to the Church
"Just because something is said with the wrong attitude doesn’t mean it’s wrong information"-Francis Chan, Letters to the Church
"While we can’t force people to be devoted, it may be that we have made it too easy for them not to be. By trying to keep everyone interested and excited, we’ve created a cheap substitute for devotion…"-Francis Chan, Letters to the Church
18. 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
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
19. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
By: Jim Mattis
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by … read more
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- military fiction
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- war
20. Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
By: Jocko Willink
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate guide on leadership from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Extreme Owners… read more
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21. The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
By: Elbridge A. Colby
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Why and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition—A Wall St… read more
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"Physical force, especially the ability to kill, is the ultimate form of coercive leverage. While there are other sources of influence, such as wealth, persuasiveness, and charisma, they are all domin…"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
"If extensive and global economic engagement and growing wealth have not already persuaded China to change its behavior, it is unclear why it would be more likely to do so as it grows stronger and thu…"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
"This is because, if China could establish hegemony over Asia, it could then set up a commercial and trading bloc anchored in the world's largest market that would privilege its own and subordinates' …"-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
22. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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23. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)
By: Rush Doshi
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more
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24. Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
By: Mehdi Hasan
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, r… read more
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25. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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26. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
By: Christian Brose
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more
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- military fiction
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"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
27. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
By: Kevin Rudd
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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28. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
By: Amy B. Zegart
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more
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29. The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
By: Hal Brands
4.53
Format: 1200 pages, Hardcover
The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The N… read more
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30. China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
By: Philip Snow
4.22
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth … read more
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31. Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
By: Colin S. Gray
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized arou… read more
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