The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II
By: None , Leon Trotsky , Thomas P. Whitney , Georgi Plekhanov
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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1. The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
By: Heather Mac Donald
3.97
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Since the summer of 2014, America has been convulsed with a protest movement known as Black Lives M… read more
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"Until society is willing to address the family breakdown that generates such violence, it will continue to fall to the police to provide social control where fathers no longer do so."-Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
"Police cannot focus on their resources where crime victims most need them without disproportionate enforcement activity in minority neighborhoods, but it is crime, not race, that determines such poli…"-Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
"Broken windows policing holds that allowing a neighborhood to become overrun by graffiti, litter, public drunkenness, and other forms of disorder breeds more crime by signaling that social control in…"-Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
"No government policy in the past quarter-century has done more for urban reclamation than proactive policing. Data-driven enforcement, in conjunction with stricter penalties for criminals and Broken …"-Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
2. Kolyma Tales
By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов
4.36
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more
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"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Помню, как в предзимнюю пору холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
3. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
By: Jacques Barzun
4.13
Format: 828 pages, Paperback
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master his… read more
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"The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form."-Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
"[...] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality"-Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
"Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published."-Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
"The Modern Era was to be one of plans and proposals, which is to say futurist to the point of bigotry."-Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
4. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
5. The Constitution of Liberty
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart… read more
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7. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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8. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedyand Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what … read more
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9. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
10. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- russia
- classics
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
11. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II
By: None , Leon Trotsky , Thomas P. Whitney , Georgi Plekhanov
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is a question if any work of literature in our era other than The Divine Comedyis commensurate w… read more
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- classics
- biography
- russian literature
- politics
- nonfiction
12. 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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13. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
By: Thomas Sowell
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the pas… read more
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14. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
By: Alan Sokal , Jean Bricmont
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Textparodying the sc… read more
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15. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
By: Anne Applebaum
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more
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16. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
By: Jordan B. Peterson
4.05
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structur… read more
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"Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"...todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
"La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final."-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
17. Lenin the Dictator
By: Victor Sebestyen
4.25
Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition
'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An e… read more
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"In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
"If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die..."-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
"The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democra…"-Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator
18. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
By: Jordan B. Peterson
4.17
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus path of modern life. I… read more
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19. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
By: Michael Malice
4.49
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
The Russian Revolution was as red as blood. The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new s… read more
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20. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
By: Ludovic Slimak
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more
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21. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb
By: Robert Serber
4.05
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
The classified lectures that galvanized the Manhattan Project scientists―with annotations for the n… read more
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