On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace

10 best books like On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (Donald Kagan): History of the Peloponnesian War, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Last and First Men, The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Parables of Kierkegaard, You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It, A History of Warfare, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

History of the Peloponnesian War
AuthorThucydides
ISBN0140440399
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
AuthorSaul D. Alinsky
ISBN0679721134
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose...
AuthorOlaf Stapledon
ISBN0486466825
"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clarke of Last and First Men. This masterpiece of science fiction by British philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions...
AuthorDouglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN0553345842
Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing cosmic journey of the mind that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
AuthorPaul Kennedy
ISBN0679720197
THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS INTO THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD HISTORY.

"A work of almost Toynbeean sweep... When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemporary issues to reexamine the great...
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
AuthorRoger Lowenstein
ISBN0375758259
With a new Afterword addressing today’s financial crisis

A BUSINESS WEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride...
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0691020531
The Needlewoman

How should one listen to an edifying discourse?

"When a woman makes an altar cloth, so far as she is able, she makes every flower as lovely as the graceful flowers of the field, as far as she is able, every star as sparkling as the glistening stars of the night. She withholds...
You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It
AuthorRachel Jankovic
ISBN1947644475
If "Who am I?" is the question you're asking, Rachel Jankovic doesn't want you to "find yourself" or "follow your heart." Those lies are nothing to the confidence, freedom, and clarity of course that come with knowing what is actually essential about you. And the answer to that question is at once less...
A History of Warfare
AuthorJohn Keegan
ISBN0679730826
Brilliant. A cultural history of war from antiquity to the present day in a single volume. Keegan starts with the symbolic forms of war among the so called "primitives," including those from the neolithic, using much archaeological evidence to do so. He then moves on to the advent of the chariot by the...
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
AuthorMichael Walzer
ISBN0465037070
From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. He studies a variety of conflicts over the course of history, as well as the testimony...
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
AuthorThucydides
ISBN0872201686
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides’ political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently...
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
AuthorGraham Allison
ISBN0544935276
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece,...
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