The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama

6 best books like The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (Thomas Laird): 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism, Jerusalem: The Biography, Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags, Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

Author	Ha-Joon Chang
ISBN	1608191664

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...

Jerusalem: The Biography

Author	Simon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN	0297852655

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine...

Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

Author	Patrick French
ISBN	1400034175

At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history,...

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Author

Lawrence James

Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island often at odds with her European neighbors. Lawrence James has written a comprehensive,...

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

Author

Tim Marshall

When you see your nation’s flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?
For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches...

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

Author

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself.

In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory...