Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)
By: Christopher Clark
3.69
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power…
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1. 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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- history
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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
2. Poland: A History
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. … read more
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- european history
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1)
By: J. Maxwell Brownjohn , Walter Moers
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first 13-1/2 lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zam… read more
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4. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
5. Der Thron der Sieben Königreiche (Das Lied von Eis und Feuer, #3)
By: George R.R. Martin , Andreas Helweg
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Nach dem Tod seines Vaters ist es an dem erst funfzehnjahrigen Robb Stark, die Herrschaft uber Wint… read more
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6. A Time to Love and a Time to Die
By: Erich Maria Remarque , Denver Lindley
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since … read more
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- germany
7. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
By: Ian Kershaw
4.14
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
8. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
By: Eric D. Weitz
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place h… read more
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- history
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
9. Woyzeck
By: Georg Büchner
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more
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10. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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11. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
12. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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13. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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- history
"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
14. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
By: Ernst H. Kantorowicz
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars thro… read more
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15. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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16. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
17. The Habsburg Empire: A New History
By: Pieter M. Judson
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so … read more
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18. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
19. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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20. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
21. 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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- politics
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- nonfiction
"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
22. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
23. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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- history
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
25. 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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- history
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-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
26. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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- politics
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27. Februar 33: Der Winter der Literatur
By: Uwe Wittstock
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Es ging rasend schnell. Der Februar 1933 war der Monat, in dem sich auch für die Schriftsteller in … read more
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- germany
- history
28. Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
By: Kishore Mahbubani
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is i… read more
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"... any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"the weaponizing of the US dollar has created a powerful global incentive to create an alternative currency for global trading purposes."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"Most Americans are unaware that the average income of the bottom 50 percent of their population has declined over a thirty-year period."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"... despite its openness, America has its own sacred cows. One such sacred cow is that America is number one and will be number one forever"-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
29. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
30. De onderwerping: een geschiedenis van de verhouding van de mens tot de natuur
By: Philipp Blom
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
De menselijke obsessie met het overheersen van de natuur zal leiden tot verwoesting van onze planee… read more
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- history
31. Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)
By: Christopher Clark
3.69
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power… read more
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