Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
By: Thomas F. Madden
4.28
Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of ci…
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
3. Istanbul: Memories and the City
By: Orhan Pamuk
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its… read more
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4. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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5. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
By: Tamim Ansary
3.87
Format: 144 pages,
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more
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6. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By: Bettany Hughes
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Hardcover
Istanbulexplores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputabl… read more
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7. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
By: Judith Herrin
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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8. Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
By: Charles King
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the Ne… read more
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9. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
By: Eugene Rogan
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more
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10. The Bastard of Istanbul
By: Elif Shafak
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more
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11. The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
By: None
3.60
Format: 137 pages, ebook
A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless… read more
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12. The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
By: Anthony Everitt
3.71
Format: 76 pages, ebook
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history s most influential … read more
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13. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
By: Sean McMeekin
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering prof… read more
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14. Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
By: Stephen Kinzer
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
If Turkey lived up to its potential, it could rule the world - but will it? A passionate report fro… read more
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15. The White Castle
By: Orhan Pamuk , Victoria Rowe Holbrook
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling nove… read more
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16. Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
By: Richard Miles
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death … read more
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17. Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
By: Thomas F. Madden
4.28
Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of ci… read more
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- nonfiction
- european history
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- greece
18. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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19. God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
By: Alan Mikhail
3.91
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Long neglected in accounts of world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectu… read more
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- european history
20. Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe's past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece."-… read more
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21. The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.88
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously ill… read more
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