Reader's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:09:40 -0700 60 Reader's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation]]> 205307264 A timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation.

From the Moon landing to the dawning of the atomic age, the decades prior to the 1970s were characterized by the routine invention of transformative technologies at breakneck speed. By comparison, ours is an age of stagnation. Median wage growth has slowed, inequality and income concentration are on the rise, and scientific research has become increasingly expensive and incremental.

Why are we unable to replicate the rate of progress of past decades? What can we do to reinvigorate innovation?

In Boom, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber take an inductive approach to the problem. In a series of case studies tracking some of the most significant breakthroughs of the past 100 years—from the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program to fracking and Bitcoin—they reverse-engineer how transformative progress arises from small groups with a unified vision, vast funding, and surprisingly poor accountability. They conclude that financial bubbles, while often maligned as destructive and destabilizing forces, have in fact been the engine of past breakthroughs and will drive future advances. In other Bubbles aren’t all bad.

Integrating insights from economics, philosophy, and history, Boom identifies the root causes of the Great Stagnation and provides a blueprint for accelerating innovation. By decreasing collective risk aversion, overfunding experimental processes, and organizing high-agency individuals around a transcendent mission, bubbles are the key to realizing a future that is radically different from the present. Boom offers a definite and optimistic vision of our future—and a path to unleash a new era of global prosperity.]]> 304 Byrne Hobart 1953953476 Reader 0 to-read 3.83 Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
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]]> Abundance 176444106 Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic from climate change to housing, education to healthcare.

To trace the global history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of growing unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, the entire country has a national housing crisis. After years of slashing immigration, we don’t have enough workers. After decades of off-shoring manufacturing, we have a shortage of chips for cars and computers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean energy infrastructure we need. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the environmental problems of the 1970s often prevent urban density and green energy projects that would help solve the environmental problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions in matters of education and healthcare have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires the ability to see promise rather than just peril in the creation of new ideas and projects, and an instinct to design systems and institutions that make building possible. In a book exploring how can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them.]]> 304 Ezra Klein 1668023482 Reader 0 to-read 4.05 2025 Abundance
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]]> Letter to a Christian Nation 51299 The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. In the course of his argument, he addresses current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence. In Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris boldly challenges the influence that faith has on public life in our nation.]]> 96 Sam Harris 0307265773 Reader 0 to-read 3.98 2006 Letter to a Christian Nation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend]]> 77920694
Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.

Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles . In The Fund , award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully-constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted “principles� as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory―in practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of paranoia and backstabbing.

The Fund is a page-turning, stranger-than-fiction journey into a rarefied world of wealth and power. It offers an unflinching look at the pain so often caused by the “radical transparency� Dalio has described as a core tenet of his recipe for business success and a meaningful life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm, Copeland takes readers into the room as former FBI director Jim Comey kisses Dalio's ring, recent Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick drinks the Kool-Aid, and a rotating cast of memorable characters grapple with their personal psychological and moral limits―all under the watchful eye of their charismatic leader.

This is a cautionary tale for anyone convinced that the ability to make lots of money has anything at all to do with unlocking the principles of human nature.]]> 352 Rob Copeland 1250276934 Reader 0 to-read 3.97 2023 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
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]]> <![CDATA[Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future]]> 18050143
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.]]> 195 Peter Thiel 0804139296 Reader 0 to-read 4.15 2014 Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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]]> <![CDATA[Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth]]> 23360155
Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere—in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office—but not in our paychecks. In the past, technological advancements dramatically increased wages, but for three decades now, the median wage has remained stagnant. Machines have taken over much of the work of humans, destroying old jobs while increasing profits for business owners. The threat of ever-widening economic inequality looms, but in Learning by Doing, James Bessen argues that increased inequality is not inevitable.
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Workers can benefit by acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to implement rapidly evolving technologies; unfortunately, this can take years, even decades. Technical knowledge is mostly unstandardized and difficult to acquire, learned through job experience rather than in the classroom. As Bessen explains, the right policies are necessary to provide strong incentives for learning on the job. Politically influential interests have moved policy in the wrong direction recently. Based on economic history as well as analysis of today’s labor markets, his book shows a way to restore broadly shared prosperity.]]> 312 James Bessen 0300195664 Reader 0 to-read, history 3.85 2015 Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 56916837 To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable coming-of-age tale in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage iniquities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father � a crusading local lawyer � risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.]]> 323 Harper Lee Reader 0 to-read 4.22 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> The Evolution of God 6340873
Nearly a decade in the making, The Evolution of God is a breathtaking re-examination of the past, and a visionary look forward.]]> 567 Robert Wright 0316734918 Reader 0 to-read 3.93 2009 The Evolution of God
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]]> <![CDATA[Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection]]> 157981748 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916.

Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?

In this groundbreaking book, Charles Duhigg unravels the secrets of the supercommunicators to reveal the art - and the science - of successful communication. He unpicks the different types of everyday conversation and pinpoints why some go smoothly while others swiftly fall apart. He reveals the conversational questions and gambits that bring people together. And he shows how even the most tricky of encounters can be turned around. In the process, he shows why a CIA operative was able to win over a reluctant spy, how a member of a jury got his fellow jurors to view an open-and-shut case differently, and what a doctor found they needed to do to engage with a vaccine sceptic.

Above all, he reveals the techniques we can all master to successfully connect with others, however tricky the circumstances. Packed with fascinating case studies and drawing on cutting-edge research, this book will change the way you think about what you say, and how you say it.]]> 320 Charles Duhigg Reader 0 to-read 3.99 2024 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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]]> <![CDATA[Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork]]> 54018473 The world's foremost entrepreneurial coach shows you how to make a mindset shift that opens the door to explosive growth and limitless possibility--in your business and your life.Have you ever had a new idea or a goal that excites you... but not enough time to execute it? What about a goal you really want to accomplish...but can't because instead of taking action, you procrastinate? Do you feel like the only way things are going to get done is if you do them? But what if it wasn't that way? What if you had a team of people around you that helped you accomplish your goals (while you helped them accomplish theirs)?When we want something done, we've been trained to ask "How can I do this?" Well, there is a better question to ask. One that unlocks a whole new world of ease and accomplishment. Expert coach Dan Sullivan knows the question we should ask "Who can do this for me?"This may seem simple. And it is. But don't let the lack of complexity fool you. By mastering this question, you will quickly learn how billionaires and successful entrepreneurs like Dan build incredible businesses and personal freedom.This book will teach you how to make this essential paradigm-shift so you Ěý *Ěý Build a successful business effectively while not killing yourselfĚý *Ěý Immediately free-up 1,000+ hours of work that you shouldn't be doing anywayĚý *Ěý Bypass the typical scarcity and decline of aging and other societal normsĚý *Ěý Increase your vision in all areas of life and build teams of WHOs to support you in that visionĚý *Ěý Never be limited in your goals and ambitions againĚý *Ěý Expand your abundance of wealth, innovation, relationships, and joyĚý *Ěý Build a life where everything you do is your choice--how you spend your time, how much money you make, the quality of your relationships, and the type of work you doMaking this shift involves retraining your brain to stop limiting your potential based on what you solely can do and instead focus on the nearly infinite and endless connections between yourself and other people as well as the limitless transformation possible through those connections.]]> 193 Dan Sullivan 1401960596 Reader 0 to-read 4.14 2020 Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
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]]> <![CDATA[Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike]]> 27220736
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.

But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.

Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.]]> 400 Phil Knight 1501135910 Reader 0 to-read 4.45 2016 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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]]> <![CDATA[Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid]]> 24113 777 Douglas R. Hofstadter 0465026567 Reader 0 to-read 4.29 1979 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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]]> Diplomacy 781183
The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.

Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations.

Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.]]> 912 Henry Kissinger 0671510991 Reader 0 to-read 4.25 1994 Diplomacy
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]]> Strategy: A History 26261250 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.
The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of the leading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that the inherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point.
A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.]]> 768 Lawrence Freedman 0190229233 Reader 0 4.04 2013 Strategy: A History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Evolution of Civilizations]]> 991681 The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley examines the application of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his historical hypotheses. He poses a division of culture into six levels from the abstract to the more concrete. He then tests those hypotheses by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations: the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and the Western.

Quigley defines a civilization as “a producing society with an instrument of expansion.� A civilization’s decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution—that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.]]> 442 Carroll Quigley 0913966568 Reader 0 to-read, science-of-history 4.38 1961 The Evolution of Civilizations
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]]> <![CDATA[Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time]]> 726546 1348 Carroll Quigley 094500110X Reader 0 to-read, science-of-history 4.33 1966 Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
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]]> The 4-Hour Workweek 368593
Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want?
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs?
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist?
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"?
- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income?
- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair?
- What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks?
- How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet?
- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are?
- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off?
- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office]]> 308 Timothy Ferriss 0307353133 Reader 0 to-read 3.93 2007 The 4-Hour Workweek
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]]> <![CDATA[Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity]]> 18289396 304 Nabeel Qureshi 0310515025 Reader 0 to-read 4.56 2014 Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
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]]> <![CDATA[What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People]]> 1173576 He says that's his best offer. Is it?

She says she agrees. Does she?

The interview went great - or did it?

He said he'd never do it again. But he did.

Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:


The ancient survival instincts that drive body language
Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings
What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives
The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments
Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust
Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority
Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world.]]> 250 Joe Navarro 0061438294 Reader 0 to-read 3.90 2008 What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It]]> 123857637 A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating � effective in any situation.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders, and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most � when people’s lives were at stake.

Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence professional at the top of his game, Never Split the Difference will give you the competitive edge in any discussion.]]> 274 Chris Voss 1847941494 Reader 0 to-read 4.32 2016 Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
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]]> <![CDATA[Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear]]> 95884
In Words That Work , Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters like "The Ten Rules of Successful Communication" and "The 21 Words and Phrases for the 21st Century," he examines how choosing the right words is essential.

Nobody is in a better position to explain than Frank He has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. Hell tell us why Rupert Murdoch's six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because satellite was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned their message from "treatment" to "prevention" and "wellness."

If you ever wanted to learn how to talk your way out of a traffic ticket or talk your way into a raise, this book's for you.]]> 350 Frank Luntz 1401302599 Reader 0 to-read 3.61 2006 Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
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]]> <![CDATA[The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels]]> 43305287
ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGHâ€� •ĚýNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR â€� The Christian Science Monitor â€� Southern Living

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature� have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now.

While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us,Ěý“The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail.

Praise for The Soul of America

“Brilliant, fascinating, timely . . . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.� —Walter Isaacson

“Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.� � Newsday

“Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American history and a reason to believe the soul of America is ultimately one of kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.� � USA Today]]> 416 Jon Meacham 0399589821 Reader 0 to-read 4.27 2018 The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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]]> Democracy in America 2578766 825 Alexis de Tocqueville 0760752303 Reader 0 to-read 4.12 1835 Democracy in America
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]]> <![CDATA[A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement]]> 20893504 The revised, 10th anniversaryĚýedition of theĚý#1 New York Times bestseller

Over the past decade, A Patriot’s History ofĚýthe United States has become the definitiveĚýconservative history of our country, correctingĚýthe biases of historians and other intellectualsĚýwho downplay the greatness of America’sĚýpatriots. Professors Schweikart and Allen haveĚýnow revised, updated, and expanded theirĚýbook, which covers America’s long history withĚýan appreciation for the values that made thisĚýnation uniquely successful.]]> 1008 Larry Schweikart 1595231153 Reader 0 to-read 4.21 2004 A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to America's Age of Entitlement
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]]> <![CDATA[India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy]]> 45730171
Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India’s wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape the nation, politically, socially, and economically, Guha writes of the factors and processes that have kept the country together, and kept it democratic, defying the numerous prophets of doom.

Moving between history and biography, this story provides fresh insights into the lives and public careers of those legendary and long-serving Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi. Guha includes vivid sketches of the major “provincial� leaders, but also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known Indians—peasants, tribals, women, workers, and Untouchables.

Massively researched and elegantly written, this is the work of a major scholar at the height of his powers, a brilliant and definitive history of what is possibly the most important, occasionally the most exasperating, and certainly the most interesting country in the world.]]> 992 Ramachandra Guha 0062978063 Reader 0 to-read 4.43 2007 India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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]]> <![CDATA[Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah]]> 200167166 384 Nile Green 1324002417 Reader 0 to-read 2.33 Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
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]]> <![CDATA[An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth]]> 873384
Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion, and his Autobiography inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. He gives a simply narrated account of his boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and a growing desire for purity and reform. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy ( brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials.

Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords.

Mahatma Gandhi writes of this " My purpose is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am ."

Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement ( satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom . The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandhi " Often the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field ."

His story, the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.

Dover publishes history books featuring autobiographies and biographies of famous figures, great war battles, politics, various eras, and global cultures and history including Tudor England, Ancient Rome, medieval times, the writings of Gandhi, Lenin, Lincoln, and Machiavelli � books for the scholar and general reader, including many reprints of hard-to-find classics.]]> 454 Mahatma Gandhi 0486245934 Reader 0 to-read 3.89 1927 An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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]]> <![CDATA[The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins]]> 150779155 512 Stefanos Geroulanos 1324091452 Reader 0 to-read 3.68 2024 The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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]]> <![CDATA[Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History]]> 55678395 304 Peter Furtado 0500296138 Reader 0 to-read 3.67 Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
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]]> <![CDATA[Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World]]> 101135904
Was America really “stolen� from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians really peace-loving, communistic environmentalists? Did Europeans commit “genocide� in the New World?

It seems that almost everyone—from CNN to the New York Times to angry students pulling down statues of our founders—believes that America’s history is a shameful tale of racism, exploitation, and cruelty.

In Not Stolen , renowned historian Jeff Fynn-Paul systematically dismantles this relentlessly negative view of U.S. history, arguing that it is based on shoddy methods, misinformation, and outright lies about the past.

America was not “stolen� from the Indians but fairly purchased piece by piece in a thriving land market. Nor did European settlers cheat, steal, murder, rape or purposely infect them with smallpox to the extent that most people believe. No genocide occurred—either literal or cultural—and the decline of Native populations over time is not due to violence but to assimilation and natural demographic processes.

Fynn-Paul not only debunks these toxic myths, but provides a balanced portrait of this complex historical process over 500 years. The real history of Native and European relations will surprise you. Not only is this not a tale of shameful sins and crimes against humanity—it is more inspiring than you ever dared to imagine.]]> 397 Jeff Fynn-Paul 164293951X Reader 0 to-read 3.91 2023 Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
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]]> On Grand Strategy 42038851
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades

John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy.Ěý Now, in On Grand Strategy , Gaddis reflects on what he has learned.Ěý In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin.Ěý On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he’s never written about before.Ěý For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.]]> 384 John Lewis Gaddis 0143132512 Reader 0 to-read 3.80 2018 On Grand Strategy
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]]> <![CDATA[Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome]]> 18505978 Ěý
Brilliant Discourse follows the story of the Roman illustrated book from the printed page back out to the Renaissance streets, piazzas, palaces, convents, and bookshops where these expensive publications, carefully shepherded through the press, acted in the real world to create lively communities of readers and viewers.]]> 304 Evelyn Lincoln 0300204191 Reader 0 to-read 0.0 2014 Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
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]]> On Economics 11676310 180 Milton Friedman 0226263517 Reader 0 to-read 3.79 2007 On Economics
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]]> <![CDATA[There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch]]> 157394 330 Milton Friedman 087548297X Reader 0 to-read 4.21 There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Contraction 1929-1933]]> 1182747 150 Milton Friedman 0691003505 Reader 0 to-read 3.71 1964 The Great Contraction 1929-1933
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]]> <![CDATA[Essays in Positive Economics (Phoenix Books)]]> 103376 "Stimulating, provocative, often infuriating, but well worth reading."—Peter Newman, Economica

"His critical blast blows like a north wind against the more pretentious erections of modern economics. It is however a healthy and invigorating blast, without malice and with a sincere regard for scientific objectivity."—K.E. Boulding, Political Science Quarterly

"Certainly one of the most engrossing volumes that has appeared recently in economic theory."—William J. Baumol, Review of Economics and Statistics]]> 334 Milton Friedman 0226264033 Reader 0 to-read 4.12 1953 Essays in Positive Economics (Phoenix Books)
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]]> Price Theory 97823 376 Milton Friedman 020230969X Reader 0 to-read 4.07 1962 Price Theory
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]]> <![CDATA[A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960]]> 7410 Economic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental, above all, in the theoretical and statistical effort and ingenuity that have been brought to bear on the solution of complex and subtle economic issues.



Friedman and Schwartz marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady control of the money supply--matters profoundly in the management of the nation's economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. In their influential chapter 7, The Great Contraction--which Princeton published in 1965 as a separate paperback--they address the central economic event of the century, the Depression. According to Hugh Rockoff, writing in January 1965: If Great Depressions could be prevented through timely actions by the monetary authority (or by a monetary rule), as Friedman and Schwartz had contended, then the case for market economies was measurably stronger.

Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976 for work related to A Monetary History as well as to his other Princeton University Press book, A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957).]]> 888 Milton Friedman 0691003548 Reader 0 to-read 4.00 1963 A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
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]]> <![CDATA[Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History]]> 97822 304 Milton Friedman 015661930X Reader 0 to-read 3.92 1992 Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy) (Volume 39)]]> 97819 18 Milton Friedman 0817954422 Reader 0 to-read 3.98 1993 Why Government Is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy) (Volume 39)
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]]> <![CDATA[Free to Choose: A Personal Statement]]> 97820
Powerful and persuasive, here is the important analysis of what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.]]> 356 Milton Friedman 0156334607 Reader 0 to-read 4.21 1979 Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
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]]> Capitalism and Freedom 51877 Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek

“Kendi meslektaşlarının düşünüş şeklini büyük ölçüde değiştirebilen bir profesör çok nadirdir. Dünyanın değişmesine etki edeni daha da nadirdir. Friedman ikisini de başardı.�
Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük’ün ilk baskısı 1962 yılında yayınlandığında, Büyük Buhran’ın acı hatıraları Amerikan halkının önemli bir kısmının hafızasında halen canlıydı. O dönemde, entelektüellerin yanı sıra hem Cumhuriyetçi hem Demokrat siyasetçilerin de tercihleri Keynesyen politikalardı. Böyle bir atmosferde yayınlanan Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük’te Friedman, devlet müdahalesinin niyet edilmemiş kötü sonuçlarına dikkat çekti. Rekabetçi kapitalizmin teorik ve pratik üstünlüklerini açık ve kuvvetli bir şekilde izah etti.

Friedman, bu kitapta, ekonomik özgürlükler ile siyasî özgürlükler arasındaki bağıntıyı net bir şekilde ortaya koymuştur. Friedman’ın iktisat felsefesinde merkezî bir tema olan rekabetçi kapitalizm, hem iktisadî özgürlüğe ulaşmak için bir araç hem de siyasî özgürlük için gerekli bir koşuldur.

Güncelliğini o zamandan bu yana dünyanın pek çok yerinde koruyan önemli pratik konulara rekabetçi kapitalizm perspektifinden yaklaşımlar sunan Friedman, devletin, duhul ettiği alanlardaki olumsuz etkilerini araştırmış ve bunlara çözüm önerileri getirmiştir. Devlet müdahalesinin etkilerinin yoğun bir şekilde hissedildiği uluslararası ticaret, malî politika, eğitim sistemi, ayrımcılık, tekeller, ruhsatlandırma, gelir dağılımı, sosyal refah politikaları ve yoksulluk gibi konular bu kitabın odaklandığı alanlardandır.

Kapitalizm ve Özgürlük, 20. Yüzyıl’ın en etkili ve etkileyici kitaplarından birisi olarak gösterilmektedir. İlk edisyonundan sonra birkaç kez revize edilen kitap, onlarca dile çevrilmiş, tüm dünyada yüzbinlerce okura ulaşmıştır. Kitap, birçok ülkenin iktisat politikasını etkileyen fikirleri yaymasının yanı sıra Friedman’ın 1976 yılında Nobel İktisat Ödülü almasında etkili olmuştur.]]> 208 Milton Friedman 0226264211 Reader 0 to-read 3.90 1962 Capitalism and Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys]]> 55918690 288 Joe Coulombe 1400225434 Reader 0 to-read 3.39 2021 Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
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]]> <![CDATA[Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln]]> 2199 Winner of the Lincoln Prize

Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.

It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.

This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.]]> 916 Doris Kearns Goodwin Reader 0 to-read 4.27 2005 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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]]> <![CDATA[Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit]]> 6515834 167 Francis Chan 1434767957 Reader 0 to-read 4.12 2009 Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
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]]> <![CDATA[Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds]]> 54396810
For a quarter century, leftist lexicon has dominated the public conversation, redefining language and subjecting those who dare to resist to extreme punishment: destroying reputations, ending careers, and shockingly twisting the words that form reality itself. Survey after survey shows Americans hate political correctness. So why has it advanced so powerfully?Ěý

Celebrated Daily Wire host and #1 national bestselling author Michael Knowles jarrs Americans out of their politically correct slumber to awaken them to the Left’s century-long effort to restrict and pervert speech, examining the consequences and history of political correctness—and most importantly, equipping readers to fight back]]> 362 Michael J. Knowles 1684510821 Reader 0 to-read 4.37 2021 Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
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]]> <![CDATA[The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future]]> 49668704 The founder of Turning Point USA, political pundit, and social media superstar Charlie Kirk lays out the principles that underlie Trump Republicanism, define “Make America Great Again� and will guide the future of a new Republican Party.

Donald Trump has upended what it means to be a conservative by listening to the base of the party. The left and the media claim that President Trump and those supporters operate on mindless emotion and gut instinct. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

As Charlie Kirk’s The MAGA Doctrine lays out, Trumpism represents an overdue restoration of self-rule by people long taken for granted by their rulers. Dismissed as “deplorables� by the mainstream media, Trump supporters are defending philosophical ideas which stretch back to the American founding and the birth of democracy in ancient Greece.

Americans are not destroying the international system. The international system has been destroying America. Nationalism—placed in the broader context of loyalty to Western Civilization—is the only response to the menace of globalists who want to erase borders and forget the national traits that made America great.

As the mainstream media keep churning out lies about Trump and his agenda, Kirk responds with a perfectly coherent set of ideas that will enable young conservatives to fight back against liberal lies pervading our airwaves and institutions. It’s the only thing that will make America great again.

As aggressive and edgy as the president himself, The MAGA Doctrine is both a rallying cry and a roadmap for the only ideas that will put America back on the path of greatness.

]]> 256 Charlie Kirk Reader 0 to-read 4.12 2020 The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future
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]]> <![CDATA[The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth]]> 61369370 288 Charlie Kirk 1735503738 Reader 0 to-read 4.15 2022 The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth
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]]> The Abolition of Man 25825420
The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, delightful humor, and keen understanding of the human mind to challenge our notions about how to best teach our children--and ourselves--not merely reading and writing, but also a sense of morality.]]> 113 C.S. Lewis Reader 0 to-read 4.16 1943 The Abolition of Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Statistical Geography: Problems in Analyzing Areal Data]]> 5005908 190 Otis Dudley Duncan 0837196760 Reader 0 to-read 0.0 1977 Statistical Geography: Problems in Analyzing Areal Data
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]]> <![CDATA[The Environmental Effects of Floating Mariculture in Puget Sound]]> 125355862 0 Donald P. Weston Reader 0 to-read 0.0 The Environmental Effects of Floating Mariculture in Puget Sound
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]]> <![CDATA[Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in]]> 128734783 Roger Fisher Reader 0 to-read 3.71 1981 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in
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]]> <![CDATA[Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases]]> 3941114 510 Manuel G. Velasquez 013350851X Reader 0 to-read 5.00 1982 Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
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]]> <![CDATA[The Once and Future Church Collection (Once and Future Church Series)]]> 2378647 370 Loren B. Mead 1566992486 Reader 0 to-read 4.43 2001 The Once and Future Church Collection (Once and Future Church Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Transforming Congregations for the Future (Once and Future Church Series)]]> 428357 139 Loren B. Mead 1566991269 Reader 0 to-read 3.43 1994 Transforming Congregations for the Future (Once and Future Church Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series)]]> 1108786 100 Loren B. Mead 1566990505 Reader 0 to-read 3.95 1991 The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined]]> 15898640
Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea - liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction - has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilise this fresh approach to learning.

In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time.

More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.]]> 272 Salman Khan 1619697777 Reader 0 4.34 2012 The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
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]]> You'll Come Back to Yourself 52259365 139 Michaela Angemeer 1775272710 Reader 0 to-read 3.85 2019 You'll Come Back to Yourself
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]]> <![CDATA[A New Theory of Urban Design (Center for Environmental Structure Series)]]> 106727 In this groundbreaking volume, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the process by which cities develop organically. To discover the kinds of laws needed to create a growing whole in a city, Alexander proposes here a preliminary set of seven rules which embody the process at a practical level and which are consistent with the day-to-day demands of urban development.
He then puts these rules to the test, setting out with a number of his graduate students to simulate the urban redesign of a high-density part of San Francisco, initiating a project that encompassed some ninety different design problems, including warehouses, hotels, fishing piers, a music hall, and a public square. This extensive experiment is documented project by project, with detailed discussion of how each project satisfied the seven rules, accompanied by floorplans, elevations, street grids, axonometric diagrams and photographs of the scaled-down model which clearly illustrate the discussion.
A New Theory of Urban Design provides an entirely new theoretical framework for the discussion of urban problems, one that goes far to remedy the defects which cities have today.]]> 272 Christopher W. Alexander 0195037537 Reader 0 to-read 4.16 1987 A New Theory of Urban Design (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Underground Cities: Mapping the tunnels, transits and networks underneath our feet]]> 43886399 Ěý
Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a â€skyline of the underground’Ě� through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography.Ěý

Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.
Ěý]]> 224 Mark Ovenden 178131893X Reader 0 to-read 3.72 Underground Cities: Mapping the tunnels, transits and networks underneath our feet
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]]> <![CDATA[[Roman Mars]-[The 99% Invisible City]-[Hardcover]]]> 162779102 0 Unknown Author Reader 0 to-read 0.0 [Roman Mars]-[The 99% Invisible City]-[Hardcover]
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]]> <![CDATA[Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan by Gary Gaston (2016-04-26)]]> 139234875 0 Gary Gaston Reader 0 to-read 0.0 2015 Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan by Gary Gaston (2016-04-26)
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]]> <![CDATA[Housing: Symbol, Structure, Site]]> 3821466 Book by Taylor, Lisa 176 Lisa Taylor 084781016X Reader 0 to-read 2.00 1990 Housing: Symbol, Structure, Site
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]]> House: Black Swan Theory 326433 176 Steven Holl 1568985878 Reader 0 to-read 4.29 2007 House: Black Swan Theory
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]]> <![CDATA[Building Community: New Apartment Architecture]]> 30341592 256 Michael Webb 0500343306 Reader 0 to-read 4.27 Building Community: New Apartment Architecture
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]]> <![CDATA[The Illustrated biography of Antoni GaudĂ­]]> 34942553 160 Carlos Giordano 8491030654 Reader 0 to-read 3.86 The Illustrated biography of Antoni GaudĂ­
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]]> <![CDATA[Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader]]> 916952
Framed with a provocative introduction by Kenneth Frampton, the contributions to Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture stake out a variety of positions in the debate over the extent to which it is possible—or desirable—to escape from, resist, or suggest plausible alternatives to the dominant culture of consumer capitalism. Rejecting any dreamy nostalgia for an idealized present or past in which design is completely divorced from commerce—and, in some cases, celebrating the pleasures of spectacle—the individual essays range from indictments of particular architects and critiques of the profession to broader concerns about what the phenomenon of commodification means for the practice of democracy and the health of society.Ěý

Bringing together an impressive and varied group of critics and practitioners, Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture will help to sharpen the discussion of how design can respond to our hypercommodified culture.Ěý

Contributors: Michael Benedikt, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Thomas Frank, Kevin Ervin Kelley, Daniel Naegele, Rick Poynor, Michael Sorkin, Wouter Vanstiphout.Ěý

William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at the Harvard Design School. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller.Ěý

Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and author of many books, including Labour, Work, and Architecture.]]> 144 William S. Saunders 0816647534 Reader 0 to-read 3.50 2005 Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
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]]> Alexander Hamilton 5647399 The #1ĚýNew York TimesĚýbestseller, andĚýthe inspiration for the hit Broadway musicalĚýHamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation."Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great book." —David McCullough“A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all."Ěý—Joseph Ellis

Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,â€� Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.â€� Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots,ĚýAlexander HamiltonĚýwill remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.

9780143034759]]> 818 Ron Chernow Reader 0 to-read 4.53 2004 Alexander Hamilton
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom]]> 6596 The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.]]> 152 Miguel Ruiz 1878424505 Reader 0 to-read 4.20 1997 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[Land Law, 3e (Clarendon Law Series)]]> 74452986 292 Elizabeth Cooke 0192639528 Reader 0 to-read 0.0 Land Law, 3e (Clarendon Law Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Great Cases Make Bad Law? by Lackland H. Bloom Jr. (2014-03-11)]]> 136149063 0 Lackland H. Bloom Jr. Reader 0 to-read 0.0 2014 Do Great Cases Make Bad Law? by Lackland H. Bloom Jr. (2014-03-11)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law]]> 36577599 Which is the only amendment to the U.S. Constitution ever to be repealed?
How did King Henry II of England provide a procedural blueprint for criminal law?
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These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions addressed in this beautifully illustrated book. Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world—for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as well as today’s hot-button issues, The Law Book presents a comprehensive look at the rules by which we live our lives. It covers such diverse topics as the Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments, the Trial of Socrates, the Bill of Rights, women’s suffrage, the insanity defense, and more. Roffer takes us around the globe to ancient Rome and medieval England before transporting us forward to contemporary accounts that tackle everything from civil rights, surrogacy, and assisted suicide to the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Google Books, and the fight for marriage equality.
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Organized chronologically, the entries each consist of a short essay and a stunning full-color image, while the “Notes and Further Reading� section provides resources for more in-depth study. Justice may be blind, but this collection brings the rich history of the law to light.]]> 528 Michael H. Roffer 1454927879 Reader 0 to-read 4.33 2015 The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law
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]]> <![CDATA[1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance]]> 3013116 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century. Gavin Menzies makes the argument that in the year 1434, China—then the world's most technologically advanced civilization—provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.]]> 384 Gavin Menzies 0061492175 Reader 0 to-read 3.42 2008 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
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]]> <![CDATA[For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War]]> 143075793 Excellent Book 0 James M. McPherson Reader 0 to-read 0.0 1997 For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
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]]> <![CDATA[The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays]]> 96178188
What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness.

Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred and fifty miles from her family and friends, Dixon begins watching mystery videos on YouTube, listening to true crime podcasts, and playing video game walk-throughs just to hear another human voice. She discovers the story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who died alone, her body remaining in front of a glowing television set for three years before the world finally noticed. Searching for connection, Dixon plumbs the depths of communal loneliness, asking essential questions of herself and all of us: How had her past decisions left her so alone? Are we, as humans, linked by a shared loneliness? How do we see the world and our place in it? And finally, how do we find our way back to each other?

Searing and searching, The Loneliness Files is a groundbreaking memoir in essays that ultimately brings us together in its piercing, revelatory examination of how and why it is that we break apart.]]> 192 Athena Dixon 1959030124 Reader 0 to-read 3.54 2023 The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization]]> 125937631
The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls “the ethereal world”—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.

In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epicĚýjourney across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates.

Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turnĚýraw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new the ground up.]]> 512 Ed Conway 0593534344 Reader 0 to-read 4.48 2023 Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America]]> 75574785 From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present

In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the matter to his close friend, the heir to a slaveholding family in the South. Lincoln � who was morally against the institution of slavery � rebuked his friend for his opposing views, he lectured him, he challenged him. But in the end, he wrote: “If for this you and I must differ, differ we must.� Throughout his life and political career, Lincoln often agreed to disagree. Democracy demanded it –even an adversary had a vote. The man who went on to become the sixteenth president of the United States has assumed many roles in our historical consciousness, but most notable is that he was, with no apology, a politician. And as Steve Inskeep argues, it was because he was willing to engage in politics � to work with his critics, to compromise with those whom he deeply opposed, and to move only as fast as voters would allow � that he was able to lead a social revolution.

In Differ We Must, Inskeep illuminates this master politician’s life through sixteen encounters. Some of these meetings are well known, and others more obscure, but all take on new significance when examined in detail. Each interaction was with a person who differed from Lincoln, and in each someone wanted something from the other. While it isn’t clear if Lincoln was able to alter his critics� beliefs � many went to war against him � nor if they were able to change his, what is notable is that he learned how to make his beliefs actionable, via precise and practical techniques. Lincoln was a skilled storyteller, and a great orator. He told jokes, he relied on sarcasm, and often made fun of himself. But behind the banter was a master storyteller, who carefully chose what to say and what to withhold. He knew his limitations and, as history came to prove, he knew how to prioritize.

As the host of NPR’s Morning Edition for almost two decades, Inskeep has mastered the art of bridging divides and building constructive debate in interviews; in Differ We Must, he brings his skills to bear on a prior master and in doing so forms a fresh and compelling narrative of Lincoln’s life. With rich detail and enlightening commentary, Inskeep expands our understanding of a politician who held strong to his moral compass while navigating between corrosive political factions, one who began his career in the minority party and not only won the majority, but succeeded in uniting a nation.]]> 368 Steve Inskeep 0593297865 Reader 0 to-read 4.00 2023 Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
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]]> <![CDATA[The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time]]> 75495020
For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice.

But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology aiming to place each person’s matrix of identities at the center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential. It stifles discourse, vilifies mutual influence as cultural appropriation, denies that members of different groups can truly understand one another, and insists that the way governments treat their citizens should depend on the color of their skin.

This, Yascha Mounk argues, is the identity trap. Though those who battle for these ideas are full of good intentions, they will ultimately make it harder to achieve progress toward the genuine equality we desperately need. Mounk has built his acclaimed scholarly career on being one of the first to warn of the risks right-wing populists pose to American democracy. But, he shows, those on the left and center who are stuck in the identity trap are now inadvertent allies to the MAGA movement.

In The Identity Trap, Mounk provides the most ambitious and comprehensive account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called “wokeness.� He is the first to show how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the “identity synthesis� that conquered many college campuses by 2010. He lays out how a relatively marginal set of ideas came to gain tremendous influence in business, media, and government by 2020. He makes a nuanced philosophical case for why the application of these ideas to areas from education to public policy is proving to be so deeply counterproductive—and why universal, humanist values can best serve the vital goal of true equality. In explaining the huge political and cultural transformations of the past decade, The Identity Trap provides truth and clarity where they are needed most.]]> 414 Yascha Mounk 0593493192 Reader 0 to-read 4.07 2023 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
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]]> <![CDATA[The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism]]> 112975131
For millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom—a land set apart, a nation uniquely blessed, a people in special covenant with God. This love of country, however, has given way to right-wing nationalist fervor, a reckless blood-and-soil idolatry thatĚýtrivializes the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Alberta retraces the arc of the modern evangelical movement, placing political and cultural inflection points in the context of church teachings and traditions, explaining how Donald Trump's presidency and the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated historical trends that long pointed toward disaster. Reporting from half-empty sanctuaries and standing-room-only convention halls across the country, the author documents a growing fracture inside American Christianity and journeys with readers through this strange new environment in which loving your enemies is "woke" and owning the libs is the answer to WWJD.

Accessing the highest echelons of the American evangelical movement, Alberta investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised, and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom. He highlights the battles evangelicals are fighting—and the weapons of their warfare—to demonstrate the disconnect from Contra the dictates of the New Testament, today's believers are struggling mightily against flesh and blood, eyes fixed on the here and now, desperate for a power that is frivolous and fleeting. Lingering at the intersection of real cultural displacement and perceived religious persecution, Alberta portrays a rapidly secularizing America that has come to distrust the evangelical church, and weaves together present-day narratives of individual pastors and their churches as they confront the twin challenges of lost status and diminished standing.

Sifting through the wreckage—pastors broken, congregations battered, believers losing their religion because of sex scandals and political schemes—Alberta If the American evangelical movement has ceased to glorify God, what is its purpose?]]> 506 Tim Alberta 006322688X Reader 0 to-read 4.42 2023 The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen]]> 112974860 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain

As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.�

And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?

Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and his determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.

The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, and yearning to be understood.]]> 304 David Brooks 059323006X Reader 0 to-read 4.08 2023 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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]]> Confessions 27037 Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.]]> 341 Augustine of Hippo 0192833723 Reader 0 to-read 3.95 400 Confessions
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom]]> 561909 242 Corrie ten Boom 0553256696 Reader 0 to-read 4.46 1971 The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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]]> <![CDATA[Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World]]> 58340986 A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world’s largest empires
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To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power.
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Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
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A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers� rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.
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]]> <![CDATA[Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend]]> 461646 In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains. Using census data, penitentiary reports, and railroad company reports, Nelson reveals how John Henry, victimized by Virginia's notorious Black Codes, was shipped to the infamous Richmond Penitentiary to become prisoner number 497, and was forced to labor on the mile-long Lewis Tunnel for the C&O railroad. Nelson even confirms the legendary contest between John Henry and the steam drill (there was indeed a steam drill used to dig the Lewis Tunnel and the convicts in fact drilled faster).
Equally important, Nelson masterfully captures the life of the ballad of John Henry, tracing the song's evolution from the first printed score by blues legend W. C. Handy, to Carl Sandburg's use of the ballad to become the first "folk singer," to the upbeat version by Tennessee Ernie Ford. We see how the American Communist Party appropriated the image of John Henry as the idealized American worker, and even how John Henry became the precursor of such comic book super heroes as Superman or Captain America.
Attractively illustrated with numerous images, Steel Drivin' Man offers a marvelous portrait of a beloved folk song--and a true American legend.]]> 224 Scott Reynolds Nelson 0195300106 Reader 0 to-read 3.73 2006 Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
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]]> <![CDATA[The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity]]> 363659
The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against accusations that they had become savages. But Jill Lepore makes clear that it was after the war—and because of it—that the boundaries between cultures, hitherto blurred, turned into rigid ones. King Philip's War became one of the most written-about wars in our history, and Lepore argues that the words strengthened and hardened feelings that, in turn, strengthened and hardened the enmity between Indigenous peoples and Anglos.Ěý

Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves.]]> 368 Jill Lepore 0375702628 Reader 0 to-read 3.94 1998 The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
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]]> <![CDATA[Benito Cereno (Bedford College Editions)]]> 178629
Dealing with racism, the slave trade, madness, the tension between representation and reality, and featuring at least one unreliable narrator, Melville's novella has both captivated and frustrated critics for decades.]]> 160 Herman Melville 031245242X Reader 0 to-read 3.53 1855 Benito Cereno (Bedford College Editions)
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]]> <![CDATA[Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life]]> 61357228 120 Matthew Kelly 1635821355 Reader 0 3.93 2022 Holy Moments: A handbook for the rest of your life
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]]> Common Sense 161744 Pennsylvania Magazine. On January 10, 1776, he published his pamphlet Common Sense, a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain.

Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Credited by George Washington as having changed the minds of many of his countrymen, the document sold over 500,000 copies within a few months.

Today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only by Paine's ideas but also by its clear and passionate presentation. Designed to ignite public opinion against autocratic rule, the pamphlet offered a careful balance between imagination and judgment, and appropriate language and expression to fit the subject. It immediately found a receptive audience, heartened Washington's despondent army, and foreshadowed much of the phrasing and substance of the Declaration of Independence.]]> 104 Thomas Paine 0143036254 Reader 0 3.96 1776 Common Sense
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]]> <![CDATA[The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)]]> 852197 202 Aldo Rossi 0262680432 Reader 0 4.10 1966 The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
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]]> <![CDATA[Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue]]> 151886 319 Edwin H. Friedman 0898620597 Reader 0 to-read, in-ownership 4.21 1985 Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue
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]]> How to Read and Do Proofs 2941104 0 Daniel Solow 0471453005 Reader 0 to-read, started 2.50 1982 How to Read and Do Proofs
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]]> The Canterbury Tales 32814 The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.

If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.

]]> 525 Geoffrey Chaucer 0140440224 Reader 0 3.64 1400 The Canterbury Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso]]> 6656 This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.

Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.

Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.]]> 798 Dante Alighieri 0679433139 Reader 0 to-read, in-ownership 4.08 1320 The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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]]> Rights of Man 177523 229 Thomas Paine 0543954617 Reader 0 4.03 1791 Rights of Man
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]]> Gulliver’s Travels 7733 A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 306 Jonathan Swift 0141439491 Reader 0 to-read, in-ownership 3.59 1726 Gulliver’s Travels
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]]> <![CDATA[Muslims: 5 Biblical Essentials Every Christian Must Know and Do]]> 46255277
If you are concerned, or are simply curious about Muslims, this book will equip you with the right words and practical steps to make a difference in your own community.]]> 226 Renod Bejjani 1973662965 Reader 0 5.00 Muslims: 5 Biblical Essentials Every Christian Must Know and Do
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]]> <![CDATA[Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization]]> 28268509 239 Os Guinness 0830844651 Reader 0 to-read, in-ownership 4.20 Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[Urban Apologetics: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel]]> 54287589 304 Eric Mason 0310100941 Reader 0 in-ownership 4.28 Urban Apologetics: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel
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]]> <![CDATA[Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design]]> 1887115 177 Robert Sommer 0136575773 Reader 0 to-read, in-ownership 4.37 2008 Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design
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]]> <![CDATA[The United States and Imperialism (Problems in American History)]]> 4498852 320 Frank Ninkovich 1577180550 Reader 0 0.0 2001 The United States and Imperialism (Problems in American History)
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