Of Empire

10 best books like Of Empire (Francis Bacon): The Moon Is Down, Désirée, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, The Great Wall of China, The Truman Show: The Shooting Script, A Kestrel for a Knave, Matryona's House and Other Stories, Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl, صدای پای آب, میرا

The Moon Is Down

Author	John Steinbeck
ISBN	0141185538

Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion, along with his staff establishes his HQ in the house of the democratically elected...

Désirée

Author	Annemarie Selinko
ISBN	8493388335

The stunning, massively bestselling story of Napoleon's first fiancé First published in 1953, this riveting true-life tale comes to life in diary form, giving readers an inside glimpse at the young Napoleon and his family. Désirée is enchanted by the young officer, and he asks her to marry him....

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Author	Brian Tracy
ISBN	1576754227

A self-development book that seems like a long PowerPoint presentation, with tons of quotes from people I never heard of. So I'm supposed to be inspired and motivated by a certain Jonathan Smerkfeese who says "Procrastination. Such a bad, bad thing"?

What I learned from this book, however,...

The Great Wall of China

Author	Franz Kafka
ISBN	1494712083

There is another review in Arabic after this review - مراجعتي بالانجليزية تليها مراجعة بالعربية
It is the temporal gap between the present and the past which not tangible,
The spatial gap,between the north and the south,..
the gap between the...

The Truman Show: The Shooting Script

Author	Andrew Niccol
ISBN	1557043671

Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is the unwitting star of a nonstop, 24-hour-a-day documentary soap opera called The Truman Show, with every moment of his life broadcast to a worldwide audience. Everyone around him is an actor. He is a prisoner...

A Kestrel for a Knave

Author	Barry Hines
ISBN	0141184981

Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires...

Matryona's House and Other Stories

Author	Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
ISBN	0140039856

"As long as there is fresh air to breathe under an apple tree after a shower, we may survive a little longer." (243)I had already read two of the longer pieces in this collection—Matryona's House and An Incident at Krechetovka Station. The other stories in this collection, especially the last, newly...

Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl

Author	Piers Paul Read
ISBN	0679408193

The bestselling author of Blaze presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage--and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups....

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Author

Sohrab Sepehri

Sound of Water's Foot-step = The Footsteps of Water, Sohrab Sepehri
I am a native of Kashan
Time is not so bad to me
I own a loaf of bread, a bit of intelligence, a tiny amount of taste!
I possess a mother better than the leaf
Friends, better than the running brook

And a God who...

میرا

Author	Christopher Frank
ISBN	9648223092

میرا تصویرگر جامعه‌ای است که «فردیت» هیچ معنایی در آن ندارد. به زبان جامعه‌شناختی، میرا از جامعه‌ای سخن می‌گوید که اصالت با جمع است نه فرد. در چنین جامعه‌ای...

Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy

Author	Philippa Perry
ISBN	0230252036

Ever wanted an insight into counseling? Or wished you could be a 'fly-on-the-wall' in a psychotherapy session? Couch Fiction allows you to peep through the key-hole of the therapy room door and, more than that, read the minds of the protagonists...

Based on a case study of Pat (our sandal-wearing,...