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10 best books like Russian Thinkers (Isaiah Berlin): Frederica, The Grand Sophy, Devil's Cub, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Arcadia, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism, A Traveller in Time, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Frederica
AuthorGeorgette Heyer
ISBN0099465647
Rich and handsome, darling of the ton, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke at seven-and-thirty sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. Until a distant connection, ignorant of his selfishness, applies to him for help. When Frederica Merriville brings...
The Grand Sophy
AuthorGeorgette Heyer
ISBN0099465639
When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives. When Lady Ombersley...
Devil's Cub
AuthorGeorgette Heyer
ISBN0099465833
Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has established a rakish reputation that rivals his father's, living a life of excess and indulgence. He is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0143039881
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
Arcadia
AuthorTom Stoppard
ISBN0571169341
Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific,...
23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
AuthorHa-Joon Chang
ISBN1608191664

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.
Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.
Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.
If you've wondered how we...
A Traveller in Time
AuthorAlison Uttley
ISBN0140309314
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I love the way this author tells a children's story! It has the feel of a fairy tale, but using time travel as a means to connect a girl living in the 1930's Chelsea, England with the 16th century Tudor period. The book itself was published in 1939 and the author was one of J. R. R. Tolkien's...
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
AuthorEric Karpeles
ISBN0500238545
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch’s appearance as a boy is likened to...
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393052052
Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts,...
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
AuthorMary Ann Glendon
ISBN0375760466
Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international...
Between Past and Future
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0143104810
Arendt’s penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words...
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