Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
By: Forrest McDonald
4.06
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than tw…
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1. The Radicalism of the American Revolution
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.08
Format: 447 pages, Paperback
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"the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a so…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
"The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcel…"-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
2. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
By: Ian Fleming
3.64
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more
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"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt veļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
By: Ian Fleming
3.97
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Description: A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet an… read more
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"The World Is Not Enough"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference"-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
4. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
By: Ian Fleming
3.91
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more
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"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
5. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
By: Ian Fleming
3.57
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
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6. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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7. Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines #1)
By: Marko Kloos
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats li… read more
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8. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes
By: Brion T. McClanahan
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
As presidential candidates sling dirt at each other, America desperately needs a few real heroes. T… read more
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9. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
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10. Strategy: A History
By: Lawrence Freedman
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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11. Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
By: Forrest McDonald
4.06
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
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12. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
By: Gordon S. Wood
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
During the Revolutionary era, American political theory underwent a fundamental transformation that… read more
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13. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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14. The Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston
3.78
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more
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"The truth brings no man a fortune"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
15. The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
By: Founding Fathers
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
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16. Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
By: Daniel Hannan
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
By: Peter Cozzens
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
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18. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
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19. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
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20. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)
By: G.K. Chesterton
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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21. The Course of Human Events
By: David McCullough
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Audio CD
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22. Thunderball (James Bond, #9)
By: Ian Fleming
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey ey… read more
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23. The Discourses
By: Epictetus
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world The stress on endu… read more
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24. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
25. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
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"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
26. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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27. The Federalist Papers
By: Alexander Hamilton
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
28. Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
By: Michael J. Knowles
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
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29. To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life … read more
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30. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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31. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
By: H.W. Brands
4.01
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more
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