Ayn Rand and the World She Made

7 best books like Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Anne C. Heller): River of Smoke, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism, We the Living, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, First Contact, Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

River of Smoke

Author	Amitav Ghosh
ISBN	0719568986

In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts...

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Author	Ayn Rand
ISBN	0451163931

Part II of multi-part review series.

Reading Rand reminds me of teaching freshman composition at university years ago. There’s not nearly as many spelling errors, but Rand’s pronouncements bear all the markers of severe Dunning-Kruger effect: under-researched, un-theorized, insufficiently...

We the Living

Author	Ayn Rand
ISBN	0451187849

Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue...

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Author	Leonard Peikoff
ISBN	0452011019

THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—The definitive statement of Ayn Rand’s philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir.
 
This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s classic text on the abstract principles and practical applications of Objectivism,...

First Contact

Author

Michael R. Hicks

Terran survey ship Aurora finds two habitable planets in an uncharted star system. But Aurora is disabled by gigantic alien warships and boarded by blue-skin females with fangs and claws. The warriors slaughter the crew in ritual one-on-one combat. The sole survivor is returned to Earth. This Messenger...

Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy

Author	Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN	8375365149

W czasie wielkiej wojny ojczyźnianej zginęły miliony radzieckich dzieci. Rosyjskich, białoruskich, ukraińskich, żydowskich, tatarskich, łotewskich, cygańskich, kozackich, uzbeckich, ormiańskich, tadżyckich. Te, które przeżyły, wojny nie zapomniały nigdy. Dla nich to...

The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

Author

Vikram Sood

In God we trust, the rest we monitor . . .
A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, deconstructs the shadowy world of spies, from the Cold War era to the age of global jihad, from surveillance states to psy-war and cyberwarfare, from gathering information...