Books like 'The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000'
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Shivaji: The Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShrimanyogi is a biographical work on the life and the achievements of the great Maratha king, Chatrapathi Shivaji. Shivaji has been a legendary figure in the Indian history.Shivaji was one of the major influences on the revival of nationalism and Hindu culture during a period when centuries of rule by Muslim invaders had induced a condition of apathy and indifference in the people... -
![My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén]()
My Voice Because of You, by Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish, Spanish... -
![Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh]()
Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Donald Devenish Walsh
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged" (Review)... -
![A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]()
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923... -
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![Arus Balik by Pramoedya Ananta Toer]()
Arus Balik by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSemasa jaya Majapahit, Nusantara merupakan kesatuan maritim dan kerajaan laut terbesar di antara bangsa-bangsa beradab di muka bumi. Arus bergerak dari selatan ke utara, segalanya: kapal-kapalnya, manusianya, amal perbuatannya dan cita-citanya, semuanya bergerak dari Nusantara di selatan ke atas angin di utara. Tetapi jaman berubah... -
![DUISHEN by Chingiz Aitmatov]()
DUISHEN by Chingiz Aitmatov
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe book tells the story of Altyani, a teacher, who, inspired by the great Russian leader Lenin, decides to open a primary school in his native village and holds his forte despite resistance from all... -
![Εντολή by Διδώ Σωτηρίου, Dido Sotiriou]()
Εντολή by Διδώ Σωτηρίου, Dido Sotiriou
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΗ «Εντολή» της Διδώς Σωτηρίου είναι ένα βιβλίο πολιτικής λογοτεχνίας με καυτά βιώματα. Ζωντανεύει μυθιστορηματικά τις περιπέτειες της μεταπελευθερωτικής Ελλάδας ( 1944-1952 ), που δεν έπαψε να ‘χει τη μοίρα του Σίσυφου... -
![Success by Lion Feuchtwanger]()
Success by Lion Feuchtwanger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn enthralling roman à clé depicting the rise of Nazi ideology in Germany. Martin Krüger, a museum director in Munich, has become quite unpopular and some people would like to be rid of him. Consequently, the lawsuit against him does not turn out to his favor. However, his friends keep fighting to prove his innocence. "The novel Success is more than a 'documentation of Bavaria... -
![Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Mandariinit I by Simone de Beauvoir]()
Mandariinit I by Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. Drawing on those surrounding her---Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler---and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time... -
![Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes]()
Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies... -
![Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai]()
Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . ."Clara Perez is a reporter on a small South seas island. An orphan raised by nuns, she is a young woman with origins shrouded in mystery...Categorized as:
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![Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) by César Vallejo]()
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's workCesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism...Categorized as:
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![أم سعد by غسان كنفاني, Ghassan Kanafani]()
أم سعد by غسان كنفاني, Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsأم سعد هي "صوت تلك الطبقة الفلسطينية التي دفعت غالياً ثمن الهزيمة. والتي تقف الآن تحت سقف البؤس الواطئ في الصف العالي من المعركة، وتدفع، وتظل تدفع أكثر من الجميع... -
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![Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht]()
Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBertolt Brecht's Stories of Mr. Keuner is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more often than shoes... -
![Karens jul by Amalie Skram]()
Karens jul by Amalie Skram
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKarens jul er en samfunnskritisk novelle av den naturalistiske forfatteren Amalie Skram. Novellen ble publisert i julenummeret av den danske avisen Politiken i 1885.(Fra Wikipedia)Kan leses på nett her... -
![Scandalmonger by William Safire]()
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the United States has even more sensational secrets to guard about his own past. An ambitious journalist unearths the stories of the private lives of both, and he hefts in his hand what he calls "the hammer of truth... -
![The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro Peter II]()
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... -
![Amalia : a romance of the Argentine (c1919) by José Mármol, Mary J. Serrano]()
Amalia : a romance of the Argentine (c1919) by José Mármol, Mary J. Serrano
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmalia is one of the most popular Latin American novels and, until recently, was required reading in Argentina's schools. It was written to protest the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime, but the book's popularity stemmed from the love story that fuels the plot... -
![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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![The Constitution of the United States of America: The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights by Founding Fathers]()
The Constitution of the United States of America: The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights by Founding Fathers
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis book is a public collection of the four original documents in the founding of the United States of America and include, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutions, and the Bill of Rights. Combined these documents are excellent primary historical sources for the American Revolution and the formation of the new republican state... -
![Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela]()
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962...Categorized as:
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![India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar]()
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together... -
![José Fouché by Stefan Zweig]()
José Fouché by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJoseph Fouche: The Portrait Of A Politician by Stefan Zweig. London. 1930. Cassell. Translated From The German By Eden & Cedar Paul. 327 pages... 'Gambler-in-chief at the great roulette board of human destiny,' Joseph Fouché is one of the most amazing figures in history... -
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![Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.]()
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTraces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey and slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights movement, to life in the 1990s. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo... -
![The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 by William Manchester]()
The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 by William Manchester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second volume of William Manchester's masterful account of Winston Churchill's life. Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come... -
![“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill]()
“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis eBook reproduces British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s historic speech “Finest Hour,” delivered on June 18, 1940. The speech was dedicated to the heroism of Royal Air Force pilots defending England from the Luftwaffe during the critical Battle of Britain (July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940)... -
![The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison]()
The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the best-selling classic regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers! The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America... -
![The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill]()
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
![The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell]()
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failuresSowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years...
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