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China In Ten Words

Yu Hua

China In Ten Words

The ten key concepts underlying China’s transformation

The 33 Strategies of War

A Comprehensive Guide to the Subtle Social Game of Everyday Life

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt's landmark work about Europe's anti-Semitic and imperialist roots

The Better Brain

Bonnie J. Kaplan and Julia J. Rucklidge

The Better Brain

Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition

The Rift

A New Africa Breaks Free

The Future Is History

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Broad Band

The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

Putin's People

How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

When Women Ruled the World

Six Queens of Egypt

The Plantagenets

The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

The Peloponnesian War

Get a primer on the epic Peloponnesian War

Agent Sonya

Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy

Black and British

A Forgotten History

The Spy and the Traitor

The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

1491

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A masterpiece of feminist philosophy

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”

Orientalism

Western Conceptions of the Orient

Mythos

A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece

Beyond Culture

A Journey of self-discovery

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Dying Citizen

How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

Forget the Alamo

The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

Arabs

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Arabs

A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

Four Hundred Souls

A COMMUNITY HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICA, 1619–2019

Picasso's War

How Modern Art Came to America

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed