The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
10 best books like The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 (Paul Johnson): The Road to Serfdom, Infected, Contagious, O Pioneers!, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra, Beneath the Wheel, Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven, Wittgenstein's Vienna, The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0226320618 |
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...
| Author | Scott Sigler |
| ISBN | 0307406105 |
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country...
| Author | Scott Sigler |
| ISBN | 0307406318 |
From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy.
Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679743626 |
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
| Author | Meghan Daum |
| ISBN | 1982129352 |
From “one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time” (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild) comes a seminal new book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement. You won’t be...
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
| Author | Toby Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0747599491 |
I have to say, I really enjoyed this book. My professor may have derisively called it "popular history", but I still love this book.
From first picking it up, it became hard every time I had to put it down. The combination of fluid, easy writing and the fact that this book is packed to the rafters...
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel or The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows...
| Author | Barbara J. Patterson |
| ISBN | 0964783231 |
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My family is not exactly a "Waldorf Family," however, we do appreciate the Waldorf style and philosophy. (And I have long since learned that I do not have to subscribe to any philosophy wholly in order to borrow from it). But this book really brought to light a lot of what the Waldorf philosophy...
| Author | Allan Janik |
| ISBN | 1566631327 |
This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling...
| Author | Christopher Kelly |
| ISBN | 0393061965 |
A bold new account of Attila the Hun as empire builder and political threat to Rome.
History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as he was perceived by the Romans: a savage, uncivilized barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Drawing on original texts, including...
Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
| Author | Paula Polk Lillard |
| ISBN | 0805211128 |
What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's...
Primal Mothering In A Modern World
| Author | Hygeia Halfmoon |
| ISBN | 0965353346 |
It took me a while to get into this. It sounded a bit to "dysfunctional" to me at first. Then when I got into it, I embraced it. I love the term "primal mother" I'm all about woman power, listening to our hearts, our spirits, meeting our children's needs. This book spoke to me. I connected with Hygiea's past,...
Coolidge: An American Enigma
| Author | Robert Sobel |
| ISBN | 0895264102 |
In the first full-scale biography of Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader.
Sobel instead exposes the real Coolidge, whose legacy as the most Jeffersonian of all twentieth-century presidents still reverberates...
| Author | Whitley Strieber |
| ISBN | 0380704404 |
”The paw. He turned it in his hands, looking at its supple efficiency for the hundredth time. He placed it on the desk, then picked it up again and ran its claws along his cheek. It would do its job well, this paw. The long toes with their extra joints. The broad, sensitive pads. The needle-sharp claws....
In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.
“We thought this place...
| Author | Scott Sigler |
| ISBN | 0553393154 |
“If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.”
M. Savage—or Em, as she is called—has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. They faced an empty,...
Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour...
| Author | Scott Sigler |
| ISBN | 0553393103 |
I open my eyes to darkness. Total darkness. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. I lift my head…it thumps against something solid and unmoving. There is a board right in front of my face. No, not a board…a lid.
A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. She has no idea who...
