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8 best books like Florence Nightingale (Cecil Woodham-Smith): Mark Twain, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, In the American Grain, The American Language, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980, The Strange Death of Liberal England, The Ants, The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America

Mark Twain
AuthorRon Powers
ISBN0743249011
Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's,...
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
AuthorJames M. Fallows
ISBN0307456242
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic,...
In the American Grain
AuthorWilliam Carlos Williams
ISBN0811202305
Prose essays ranging in theme from Erik the Red and Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln about what it means to be an American.

William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. He found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning,...
The American Language
AuthorH.L. Mencken
ISBN0394400755
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore....
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
AuthorJonathan D. Spence
ISBN0140062793
 “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)
 
In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers,...
The Strange Death of Liberal England
AuthorGeorge Dangerfield
ISBN0804729301
At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation...
The Ants
AuthorBert Hölldobler
ISBN3540520929
This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology,...
The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America
AuthorMohammed Al Samawi
ISBN0062678213
“Nail-bitingly suspenseful. ... Inspiring. ... Essential reading.” — Booklist, starred review

The Fox Hunt tells one young man’s unforgettable story of war, unlikely friendship, and his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civil war with the help of a daring plan engineered...
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