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The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro Peter II
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos.Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna... -
![King: A Life by Jonathan Eig]()
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files...Categorized as:
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![Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby]()
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAUDIO INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network ) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel.Israel... -
![Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi]()
Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created by Yossi Klein Halevi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLike Dreamers by Yossi K. Halevi has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher... -
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![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan]()
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life... -
![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan]()
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of The End of the World is Just the Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years .Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system... -
![David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince, Wm Robert Wright]()
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince, Wm Robert Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOrdained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence throughout the world.The first book to draw upon the David O. McKay Papers at the J... -
![Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit]()
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same... -
![How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell]()
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called “tigers” or “mini-dragons,” and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise... -
![Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry]()
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn account of the 1927 Mississippi River flood explores one of the greatest national disasters the United States has ever experienced and its consequences in a comprehensive volume that clearly shows how the flood changed the course of history. 60,000 first printing. Tour... -
![Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf]()
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite the explosion in work on African American and religious history, little is known about Black Muslims who came to America as slaves. Most assume that what Muslim faith any Africans did bring with them was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. But, surprisingly, as Sylviane Diouf shows in this new, meticulously researched volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale... -
![Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve]()
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W... -
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![Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America by David Clarke Jr., Nancy French]()
Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America by David Clarke Jr., Nancy French
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerica has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing racial tension, animosity toward law enforcement professionals, government corruption, and disregard for the constitutional process, there seems to be no easy answer in sight... -
![Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh]()
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang...Categorized as:
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![Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark]()
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs we all know and as many of our well established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called “Hitler’s Pope,” the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment, and the religious Crusades were... -
![A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya]()
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the liberal Moscow newspaper Novaya gazeta... -
![Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion by David Barton]()
Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion by David Barton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover how the United States Supreme Court has reinterpreted the Constitution, diluting the Biblical foundations upon which it was based. Filled with hundreds of the Founders' quotes revealing their beliefs on the role of religion in public affairs, the proper role of the courts, the intended limited scope of federal powers, and numberous other current issues... -
![The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns]()
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in the fall, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s...Categorized as:
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![Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha]()
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA revelatory work of biography, Gandhi Before India is an illuminating portrait of the life, the work, and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history... -
![The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon]()
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces... -
![Connections by James Burke]()
Connections by James Burke
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this bestselling book, James Burke examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological advances of today. He untangles the pattern of interconnecting events, the accidents of time, circumstance, and place that gave rise to major inventions of the world...Categorized as:
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![Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon]()
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past... -
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![Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit]()
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S... -
![Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper]()
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper’s brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement... -
![Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein]()
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMoney only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money... -
![Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins]()
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic.Authoritative, personal, and vividly written, Romney: A Reckoning is a revealing account of Mitt Romney’s life... -
![unwinding by George Packer]()
unwinding by George Packer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generationAmerican democracy is beset by a sense of crisis... -
![A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2: 1839-2004 (Oxford India Collection by Khushwant Singh]()
A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2: 1839-2004 (Oxford India Collection by Khushwant Singh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFirst published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research...
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