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My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell]()
A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe spirit of ancient Rome in its last days of glory. The hero of the story, the man called "a pillar of iron" is Marcus Tullius Cicero, the lawyer-statesman who tried vainly to save the republic he loved from the forces of tyranny... -
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Blood and Steel by Harry Sidebottom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlending heart-pounding action and historical accuracy, Harry Sidebottom’s bestselling Warrior of Rome series took readers from the shouts of the battlefield to the whisperings of the emperor’s inner circle. In this second book of his new Throne of the Caesars series, Sidebottom continues his retelling of one of the bloodiest periods of Roman history—the Year of the Six Emperors...Categorized as:
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![United States Bill of Rights by James Madison]()
United States Bill of Rights by James Madison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution...Categorized as:
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![How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson]()
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
![Caesar and Christ by Will Durant]()
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolume 3 of the monumental Story of Civilization, CAESAR AND CHRIST depicts the rise of Rome from a crossroads town to empire. The world's first republic, Rome spread its civilization over the Mediterranean and western European world. Its long, slow crumbling and final collapse plunged Europe into darkness and chaos.The Pax Romana broke some heads...Categorized as:
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![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad]()
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential... -
![Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Benjamin Jowett]()
Allegory of the Cave by Plato, Benjamin Jowett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Allegory of the Cave...Categorized as:
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![Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy]()
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire "A fascinating study of political life in ancient Rome...Categorized as:
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Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history...Categorized as:
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![Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey]()
Companion To Marx's Capital (Vol 1 and 2), A: The Complete Edition: 1-2 by David Harvey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy."My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament... -
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![The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek]()
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors... -
![The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper]()
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's power--a story of nature's triumph over human ambition... -
![Plutarch's Lives: Volume II by Plutarch]()
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II by Plutarch
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPlutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory... -
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Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPablo Neruda has been hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century & was a Nobel laureat. In these memoirs he also recounts his distinguished career as a diplomat & politician, during which he came to know iconic figures including Gandhi, Che Guevara, & Mao Tse Tung... -
![The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx]()
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKarl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was a famous German philosopher, political economist and theorist, historian and revolutionary whose ideas laid the foundation of twentieth century communism and socialism... -
![The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 4: 1929-1935 by L.M. Montgomery]()
The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 4: 1929-1935 by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOf the earlier volumes of L. M. Montgomery's journals, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields has written: These diaries possess the crisp, honest, unsparing voice of a real woman who fought all her life to bring her two selves together: the celebrated writer and the unloved child... -
![elles sont 300 000 chaque année ; "accéder à la maternité volontaire" by Simone Veil]()
elles sont 300 000 chaque année ; "accéder à la maternité volontaire" by Simone Veil
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLe 26 novembre 1974, la voix assurée de Simone Veil résonne dans l’hémicycle. Elle présente à l’Assemblée nationale son projet de loi en faveur de l’avortement. Une majorité de députés y sont opposés. Les débats seront longs, houleux, teintés d’une grande violence, mais l’éloquence magistrale de la ministre finira par emporter l’adhésion... -
![Lives of the Caesars, Volume I by Suetonius]()
Lives of the Caesars, Volume I by Suetonius
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSuetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his "Lives of the Caesars...Categorized as:
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![Plato: The Complete Works by Plato, Benjamin Jowett]()
Plato: The Complete Works by Plato, Benjamin Jowett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics... -
![Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present by Peter Nabokov, Vina Deloria]()
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present by Peter Nabokov, Vina Deloria
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen through Indian eyes and told through Indian voices: a record spanning more than five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples...Categorized as:
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![The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth]()
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe true story of the game that never should have happened.Something was happening to basketball.In the wartime fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing the game forever... -
![My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky]()
My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAutobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy... -
![Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon]()
Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history.She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognized as an equal and a leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history.She was the sister, niece, wife, and mother of Emperors...Categorized as:
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![The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter]()
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPolitical disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr...Categorized as:
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![The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy by Livy]()
The History of Rome, Books 6-10: Rome and Italy by Livy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBooks VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 BC to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 BC... -
![Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale]()
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic true story of Themistocles and the Battle of Salamis, and a rousing history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built.The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world...Categorized as:
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