Genre :: History (26 books)

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  #318

  Leviathan

  by Thomas Hobbes

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Nature (the ary whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal."

  

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  #368

  The Souls of Black Folk

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  

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  #436

  Testament of Youth

  by Vera Brittain

  (1 Review)

  42 Points

  "When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans."

  

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  #456

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

  by Michel Foucault

  (1 Review)

  35 Points

  

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  #501

  Night

  by Elie Wiesel

  (7 Reviews)

  25 Points

  "They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life."

  

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  #513

  A Brief History of Time

  by Stephen Hawking

  (3 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy."

  

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  #516

  Popol Vuh

  by Anonymous

  (2 Reviews)

  22 Points

  

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  #541

  An evil cradling

  by Brian Keenan

  (3 Reviews)

  17 Points

  

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  #555

  The Education of Henry Adams

  by Henry Adams

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."

  

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  #559

  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

  by Mao Tse-Tung

  (2 Reviews)

  13 Points

  

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