5 must-read history books like Inventing the Enemy: Essays by Umberto Eco

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Inventing the Enemy: Essays

By: Umberto Eco

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Inventing the Enemycovers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for …

If you liked the history plot in Inventing the Enemy: Essays by Umberto Eco , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Brazil

By: John Updike

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The richest and most sensual novel in years from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Rabbit se… read more

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2. Rashomon and Other Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Takashi Kojima

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories o… read more

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3. Another Day of Life

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. War and Peace, V1

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.06

Format: None pages,

Translated by Rosemary Jennings. read more

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5. Inventing the Enemy: Essays

By: Umberto Eco

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Inventing the Enemycovers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • italian literature
  • sociology
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6. The General of the Dead Army

By: Ismail Kadare

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

This is the story of an Italian general, accompanied by his chaplain, charged with the mission of s… read more

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7. Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy

By: Arch Tait , Anna Politkovskaya

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journ… read more

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8. The Art of War

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , None , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Voltaire said, "Machiavelli taught Europe the art of war; it had long been practiced, without being… read more

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9. Una storia semplice

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Una storia semplicee una storia complicatissima, un giallo siciliano, con sfondo di mafia e droga. … read more

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10. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

By: David Foster Wallace , John Jeremiah Sullivan

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best … read more

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11. Gorgias

By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more

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12. Understanding Human Nature

By: Alfred Adler

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1927 this book attempts to acquaint the general public with the fundamental… read more

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13. Mr Palomar

By: Italo Calvino

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

<<Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomarsi puo riassumere in due frasi: "Un uomo s… read more

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14. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

By: Sally Jenkins , Lance Armstrong

4.10

Format: None pages,

It is such an all-American story. A lanky kid from Plano, Texas, is raised by a feisty, single pare… read more

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15. La piedra de la locura

By: Benjamín Labatut

3.48

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
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16. The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)

By: Franz Kafka

4.30

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idios… read more

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17. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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18. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • essays
  • sociology
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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19. Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.11

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Wir sind benommen vom Kommunikations- und Informa… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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20. Slon na Zemplíne

By: Andrej Bán

4.08

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Vyrazte na cestu po Slovensku spolu s reportérom Andrejom Bánom. Cesta z východu na západ, od Čiern… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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