8 best-selling philosophy books like The Logic of Political Survival (Mit Press) by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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The Logic of Political Survival (Mit Press)

By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

3.99

Format: 550 pages, Paperback

The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who pr…

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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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2. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

By: Richard G. Wilkinson , Kate E. Pickett

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. W… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"... When infectious diseases lost their hold as the major causes of death, the industrialised world underwent a shift, known as the 'epidemiological transition' and chronic diseases, such as heart di…"

-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psycholigst and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' virus…"

-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psychologist and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' viru…"

-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

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3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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4. Ego Is the Enemy

By: Ryan Holiday

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the worl… read more

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  • philosophy
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Tony Judt

4.37

Format: 933 pages, Paperback

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

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6. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

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"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
  • business
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

8. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

By: Yeonmi Park , Maryanne Vollers

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually m… read more

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9. The Origins of Totalitarianism

By: Hannah Arendt

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more

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10. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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12. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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13. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

By: Yeonmi Park

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"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

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15. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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17. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

By: Judea Pearl

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more

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  • philosophy
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

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18. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

By: Sheera Frenkel

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
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19. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

By: Hal Brands

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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20. The Logic of Political Survival (Mit Press)

By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

3.99

Format: 550 pages, Paperback

The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who pr… read more

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  • political science
  • economics
  • sociology
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12 Top history books like The Logic of Political Survival (Mit Press) by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

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Transform Your Habits

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

4.14

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