Parables of Kierkegaard
10 best books like Parables of Kierkegaard (Søren Kierkegaard): The Republic, The Rape of Nanking, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Last and First Men, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, 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, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, A History of Warfare
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140449140 |
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
| Author | Iris Chang |
| ISBN | 0140277447 |
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians.
This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured...
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
| Author | Saul D. Alinsky |
| ISBN | 0679721134 |
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...
| Author | Olaf Stapledon |
| ISBN | 0486466825 |
"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...
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve...
| Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| ISBN | 0553345842 |
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
| Author | Paul Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0679720197 |
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
| Author | Roger Lowenstein |
| ISBN | 0375758259 |
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...
| Author | Donald Kagan |
| ISBN | 0385423756 |
Talking specifically on ancient & modern wars, Kagan explores here only four wars – two more ancient & two modern ones – The Peloponnesian War & The Second Punic War, in the first instance, * - and The World Wars I & II, in the second example. Kagan says that’s an opinion of his own....
| Author | John Keegan |
| ISBN | 0679730826 |
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...
On Justice, Power and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0872201686 |
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...
