God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
By: Christopher Hill
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland…
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1. The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
By: John Dos Passos
3.82
Format: 325 pages, Trade Paperback
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is … read more
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" Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was an…"-John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
2. Nietzsche and Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
3. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
By: Christopher Hill
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland… read more
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- history
- biography
- british literature
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- english civil war
6. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
7. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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8. Dictator (Cicero, #3)
By: Robert Harris
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Imperium...Conspirata...and now, the long-awaited final volume of the author's best-selling Cicero … read more
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9. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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10. The Making of the English Working Class
By: E.P. Thompson
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
This account of artisan & working-class society in its formative years, 1780-1832, adds an importan… read more
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11. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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12. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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13. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages,
It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more
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14. New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
By: Susan Brigden
3.79
Format: 223 pages,
No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. T… read more
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15. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By: Adam Tooze
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more
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16. The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his … read more
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17. Planet of Slums
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more
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18. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- history
- biography
- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
19. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
20. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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- british literature
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
21. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
22. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- history
- british literature
- politics
- nonfiction
- english civil war
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
23. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
24. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
25. Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
4.35
Format: 597 pages, Kindle Edition
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of… read more
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- history
26. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
27. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.17
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
28. The People Immortal
By: Vasily Grossman
4.09
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second World War, each offering a distinct take on wha… read more
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29. Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
By: Peter Heather
3.59
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view bot… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
30. Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982
By: Dominic Sandbrook
4.50
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980 the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- british literature
