The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster

6 best books like The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster (Winston S. Churchill): The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Gettysburg Address, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Author	Shoshana Zuboff
ISBN	1610395697

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Author	George Orwell
ISBN	0141183721

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always...

The Gettysburg Address

Author	Abraham Lincoln
ISBN	0395883970

I would like to respond to the unkind and unfair comments that the liberal press have made concerning Mr. Trump's recent speech, which they claim was plagiarized from President Lincoln's immortal words. There is absolutely no truth in these accusations. First, however much one may admire Lincoln,...

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

Author

Gore Vidal

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...

The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

Author

James Madison

The most important documents of the United States of America are collected in this easy-to-read volume, which includes the Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and an appendix containing a list...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Author

Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and his Mongol Horde were good news for the world. Really. Not convinced? Consider the following:

1. Genghis Khan was an advocate of human rights, specifically freedom of religion, freedom from torture and free trade (he got two of the Four Freedoms right, which is pretty impressive...