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10 best books like Government (B. Traven): The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku, Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong, A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Eugene Onegin and Other Poems, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, A Russian Gentleman, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
AuthorKobayashi Issa
ISBN1570621446
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the...
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
AuthorHồ Xuân Hương
ISBN1556591489
Hồ Xuân Hương — whose name translates as "Spring Essence" — is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqué poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and...
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
AuthorLinda Schele
ISBN0688112048
Recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given the 1st written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the 1st central figures in the effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele & David Freidel, detail this history. A Forest of Kings is the story...
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556590954
Astonishing poetry collection. One of the few poets that I read cover to cover and then again few more times, untill I know each poem by heart.

Looking Forward to Age

I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.

I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0140448128
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity...
Eugene Onegin and Other Poems
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN0375406727
Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don't quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature—the source of the human archetypes and the...
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorDaniel Hernandez
ISBN1416577033
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...
A Russian Gentleman
AuthorSergei Aksakov
ISBN0192815733
At the center of this chronicle of Russian provincial life in the reign of Catherine the Great stands the patriarchal figure of the author's grandfather, Stepan Mikhailovich. A man of great natural dignity, imbued with respect for tradition and love of the land, he is also despotic and virtually illiterate....
Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
AuthorRyōkan
ISBN1590309820
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma heir....
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
AuthorRobert Chandler
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and...
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
AuthorMolly Molloy
ISBN1568586582
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained...
Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
AuthorDorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a...
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
AuthorGustave Flaubert
ISBN0140435824
At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a “sensibility on tour,” Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer’s impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert’s traveling companion, Maxime...
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
AuthorClifford Geertz
ISBN0520004590
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz. It principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant...
The Rattle Bag
AuthorSeamus Heaney
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary...
Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917
AuthorGeoffrey Hosking
ISBN0674781198
The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation -- a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood....
China: A Macro History
AuthorRay Huang
ISBN1563247313
A (content-wise) interesting thematic history of China, albeit one that shows its age. It's too dry to be a popular history, but does too little to situate itself in within contemporaneous scholarship to be academic.

As its title suggests, Huang's book is a macro-level treatment of Chinese...
El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City
AuthorJohn Ross
ISBN1568584245
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...
The Ancient Maya
AuthorRobert J. Sharer
ISBN0804748179
This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence...
Here's to You, Jesusa!
AuthorElena Poniatowska
ISBN0142001228
Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her...
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
AuthorDiego de Landa
ISBN0486236226
These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most...
The Good Conscience
AuthorCarlos Fuentes
ISBN0374507368
The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality...
Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface
AuthorGray Brechin
ISBN0520250087
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons,...
Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees
AuthorAllan W. Eckert
ISBN1931672202
In the year 1771, a white boy named Marmaduke Van Swearingen was captured by Shawnee Indians in what is now West Virginia, but was then the edge of the American frontier. Impressed with his bravery, he was not killed but instead was taken to Ohio where he was adopted into the tribe and given the name Blue...
Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
AuthorJohn Dickie
ISBN0743277996

Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian...
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