The Penguin History of the World

J. M. Roberts

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The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World

Synaptic Self

Joseph LeDoux

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Amazon.com A middle-aged neuroscientist walking down Bourbon Street spots a T-shirt that reads, "I don't know, so maybe I'm not." This stimulus zooms from eyes to brain, neuron by neuron,

The Arthashastra

Kautilya, 憍底利耶

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Kautilya: The Arthashastra, published in 2000 by Penguin Classics is the English edition of the classic treatise on classical economics and political science by the ancient Indian philosopher Kautilya

The House of Rothschild

Niall Ferguson

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The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynasty In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar

A People's Tragedy

Orlando Figes

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Amazon.com Review Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orlando Figes's history is certain to become one of the most important contemporary st

Daisy Miller

Henry James

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Famous novella chronicles a young American girl’s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with E

The Puzzle Palace

James Bamford

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Describes and assesses the activities of the National Security Agency, the nation's most secret government agency--established in secrecy, many times larger than the CIA, and in control of a huge budg

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

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Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected you

Design of Cities

Edmund N. Bacon

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Collapse

Jared Diamond

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Book Description In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of th

The Basque History of the World

Mark Kurlansky

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Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction-they are Europe's oldest nation without ever having been

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

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Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. 约翰·斯坦贝克 (John Steinbeck 1902-1

The Tyranny of Merit

Michael J. Sandel

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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give

Firefighting

Ben S. Bernanke

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From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we

Adèle

Leila Slimani

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From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wants only one

Dancing Bears

Witold Szablowski

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作者簡介 維特多．沙博爾夫斯基Witold Szabłowski 一個天生說故事的人，波蘭最優秀的報導文學作家之一。畢業於華沙大學新聞系與政治學系。在業內素以簡潔靈動的語言運用而聞名。對於土耳其的政治、婦女及犯罪議題有深入研究，他對於土耳其「榮譽殺人」的報導〈姐妹，這是出於愛〉曾獲得國際特赦組織的榮譽推薦，而他的土耳其長篇報導《來自杏城的刺客

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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A History of Reading

Alberto Manguel

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Reading, Manguel tells us, is almost as essential to our existence as breathing. How did this come to be, and how has reading shaped our minds and our cultures? These are big, complex questions, but M

Going Solo

Eric Klinenberg

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Him With His Foot in His Mouth

Saul Bellow

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We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop til

Reading in the Brain

Stanislas Dehaene

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"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted

The Element

Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica

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A breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment. The Element is the point at which natural talent meets perso

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford

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"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management" ( Los Angeles Times (on the first edition)) In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and ho

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

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The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie.

Fateful Choices

Ian Kershaw

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The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw’s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling

Drawing Down the Moon

Margot Adler

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Now fully revised—the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued t

The Art of Possibility

Rosamund Stone Zander

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The dynamic product of and extraordinary partnership, The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicat

Conspicuous Consumption

Thorsten Veblen

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The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguinas Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historyas most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit

Marriage, a History

Stephanie Coontz, 斯蒂芬妮·孔茨

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Marriage has never been more fragile. But the same things that have made it so have also made a good marriage more fulfilling than ever before. In this enlightening and hugely entertaining book, his