The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
By: William Doyle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Bar…
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1. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
2. Napoleon: A Concise Biography
By: David A. Bell
3.98
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and c… read more
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3. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
By: Michael Eliot Howard
3.68
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perha… read more
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4. Reflections on the Revolution in France
By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more
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5. Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution
By: Mark Steel
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Vive la Revolution is an uproariously serious work of history. Brilliantly funny and insightful, it… read more
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6. American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
By: Walter Isaacson
4.09
Format: 129 pages,
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8. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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9. The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
By: William Doyle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Bar… read more
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10. The Gods Will Have Blood
By: Anatole France , Frederick Davies
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Bloodis the story of Gam… read more
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11. Esir Şehrin İnsanları (Esir Şehir Üçlemesi, #1)
By: Kemal Tahir
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
"Esir Sehir Uclemesi" edebiyatimizin guclu ve klasiklesmis ismi Kemal Tahir'in basyapitlarindandir.… read more
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12. A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danto… read more
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13. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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14. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
By: Isser Woloch , R.R. Palmer
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French histo… read more
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15. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
By: Ruth Scurr
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain f… read more
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16. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
By: None , Peter Just
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of S… read more
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17. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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18. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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19. Le Mariage de Figaro
By: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
3.53
Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, j… read more
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20. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
By: Carl Zimmer
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from prot… read more
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"It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"Thirteen thousand years ago it fell to Antarctica. It rested in the Allan Hills as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, farmers discovered agriculture, cities rose, and rockets shot into space."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"The disgusting smell of death of death is the result of certain airborne molecules with evocative names like cadaverine and putrescine. These molecules are not produced by death, however, but by life…"-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
