Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government- —and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
10 best books like Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government- —and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead (David Rothkopf): Lonesome Dove, So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Riders of the Purple Sage, House Made of Dawn, Infantry Attacks, White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology, The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848, 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.
Journey to the dusty little Texas...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
| Author | Jon Ronson |
| ISBN | 1594487138 |
Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.
'It's about the terror, isn't it?'
'The terror of what?' I said.
'The terror of being...
| Author | Zane Grey |
| ISBN | 0812966120 |
Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger...
| Author | N. Scott Momaday |
| ISBN | 0072434201 |
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land.
He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The...
| Author | Erwin Rommel |
| ISBN | 1853677078 |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied....
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula
| Author | Norman Davies |
| ISBN | 0712606947 |
In White Eagle, Red Star, distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army—sure of victory and pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe —was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known...
| Author | Fritz Stern |
| ISBN | 0520026268 |
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbein, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives...
| Author | Martin Dugard |
| ISBN | 0316166251 |
Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They...
| Author | Ronald B. Tobias |
| ISBN | 1582972397 |
Give your story a solid foundation - a plot that engages readers from start to finish!
The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots that connect with the audience on both an emotional and intellectual level.Inside, Ronald B. Tobias...
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
| Author | Emily Guendelsberger |
| ISBN | 0316509000 |
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she traveled...
Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia: English Translation
ENGLISH TRANSLATION The book is a Russian textbook on geopolitics. It systematically and detailed the basics of geopolitics as a science, its theory, history. Covering a wide range of geopolitical schools and beliefs and actual problems. The first time a Russian geopolitical doctrine. An indispensable...
Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884
| Author | William F. Sater |
| ISBN | 0803243340 |
The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile’s and Peru’s armored warships vying...
Conversations With Myself
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0374128952 |
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable...
The Philippine War, 1899-1902
| Author | Brian McAllister Linn |
| ISBN | 0700612254 |
This year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history. The war thrust the U.S. into the center of Pacific and Asian politics, with important and sometimes tragic consequences. It kept the Filipinos under colonial overlordship...
| Author | Brian Lumley |
| ISBN | 0515045713 |
Titus Crow and his faithful companion and record-keeper fight the gathering forces of darkness-the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth. A few puny humans cannot possibly stand against these otherworldly evil gods,...
American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside
It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing...
Forensics: True Crime Scene Investigations
| Author | Zakaria Erzinçlioğlu |
| ISBN | 0760740763 |
I have always been interested, in a moderately morbid way, with criminal forensics, and I very much enjoyed reading this non-fiction book, not least because it was written by someone in Great Britain, which puts another spin on the subject.
After introducing the reader to Locard's Principle,...
Silent Safety: Best Practices for Protecting the Affluent
| Author | Douglas R. Kane |
| ISBN | 0980039835 |
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