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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Abridged Edition

10 best books like Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Abridged Edition (Luo Guanzhong): This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, Twilight in the Forbidden City, A Dictionary of Maqiao, Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China, The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book, Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero, Showdown, Robin Hood (Grandes Aventuras), Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Engaging the Muslim World

This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement
AuthorSarah van Gelder
ISBN1609945875
The first book on the movement that has changed the political landscape Features contributions from veteran progressive observers and Occupy activists Goes beyond describing events to explore the larger meaning of the movement The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time the...
Twilight in the Forbidden City
AuthorReginald Fleming Johnston
ISBN1843560208
As part of China's 2008 Olympic welcome to visitors Xiaomina Press, presents this book about the last emperor of China. This book is essential reading for all visitors to China The Author Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston was a Scottish diplomat and the tutor of Puyi, the last emperor of China. Johnston...
A Dictionary of Maqiao
AuthorHan Shaogong
ISBN0385339356
From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries,...
Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China
AuthorDavid Wise
ISBN0547553102
For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s...
The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book
AuthorJin Yong
ISBN0195903234
On the Dragon Throne of China sits the young Manchu Emperor Kang Xi. Back in 1644, his great-uncle Dorgon broke through the Great Wall from Manchuria in the north-east and took the Imperial capital, Peking. Now twenty years later, the Manchus are quelling the last sparks of Chinese resistance, hounding...
Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero
AuthorStephan Talty
ISBN0307460959
On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The...
Showdown
AuthorJorge Amado
ISBN0553346660
A classic Brazilian "Western" full of romance and adventure, violence and courage, and peopled with wonderfully earthy characters from the legendary author's childhood.

"Set in Bahia at the turn of the century, Showdown is brimming with the gunmen, fugitives, prostitutes and other characters...
Robin Hood (Grandes Aventuras)
AuthorWalter Scott
ISBN9706079246
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scott created and popularized historical novels in a series called the Waverley Novels. In his novels Scott arranged the plots and characters...
Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
AuthorLawrence W. Levine
ISBN0674390776
In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera & vaudeville, America's leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable & dynamic...
Engaging the Muslim World
AuthorJuan Cole
ISBN0230607543
Western society is suffering from Islam Anxiety—the product of fear-mongering and misinformation. There is a desperate need to debunk the myths concerning Islam in order to improve the political and ideological understanding between Muslim countries and their Western counterparts. Juan Cole,...
1918
AuthorAleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
ISBN0898751276
The central place in Alexei Tolstoy's work is held by his books about the events of the Great October Revolution and the Civil War. His "Ordeal" (1919-1941) is a book about the Russian people as they forge their way to a new life, about the Russian intelligentsia, which, as a result of a long "ordeal", found...
The Voyages of Sindbad
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0141026448
The voyages of sindbad, the story of the man who survived.
First of all I would like to say that I picked this book because it was small not that I always select small books but as I was in mood of some light reading.

Sindbad is really a typical hero different from others, the book is different...
A Concise History of the Middle East
AuthorArthur Goldschmidt, Jr.
ISBN0813342759
The eighth edition of Arthur Goldschmidt's widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. As an introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnings of Islam to the present day, the book is distinguished...
The Times Complete History of the World
AuthorRichard Overy
ISBN0007181299
The Times Complete History of the World has sold over 2,000,000 copies since its first publication in 1978. It is the most exciting, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. Its exciting visual narrative of the history of the world — from the origins of mankind to the 21st...
Mountain Girl River Girl
AuthorTing-xing Ye
ISBN0143168126
Set in modern-day China, this is the story of two courageous young women who leave their small villages to follow their dreams. Pan-pan embarks on a journey to Beijing after learning that she has inherited a condition called ‘fox stink’ from her mother. Feeling hurt and ashamed, she manages to display...
The Buddhist Catechism
AuthorHenry Steel Olcott
As I knew little about Buddhism, I would say this book was a good resource. That being said, I do not agree with the religion having understood what was presented. It appears to be a religion founded on the sole urge to overcome ignorance, which in itself is good, but not logical. Not everyone is capable...
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression
AuthorJames Mann
ISBN0670038253
From The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans, an exploration of Chinese authoritarianism and Western capitalism

In The China Fantasy, bestselling author James Mann examines the evolution of American policy toward China and asks, Does it make sense? What are our ideas...
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: Mankind's Final Encyclopedia From America's Finest News Source
AuthorThe Onion
ISBN0316133264
Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published, and the only one you will ever need: The Onion's...
The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life
AuthorJohn Tarrant
ISBN0060931116
In this landmark guide to the spiritual journey, respected Zen teacher and psychotherapist John Tarrant brings together ancient Eastern traditions and the Western passion for the soul. Using real-life stories, Zen tales, and Greek myths, The Light Inside the Dark shows how our darkest experiences...
Guide to Stoicism
AuthorSt. George Stock
Thanks to Leon Mire for volunteering to read the free Librivox edition

Stock's best point is his worst point: his didactic approach - he disagrees, and he has reasons for it.

Getting an opposing view is seldom uninteresting, though it be irksome. In my latest stop down the rabbit...
Petals from the Sky
AuthorMingmei Yip
When twenty-year old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - "no freedom, no love, no meat." But to Meng Ning it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents'...
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China
AuthorHoward Goldblatt
ISBN0802134491
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology...
The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorRichard Curt Kraus
ISBN0199740550
China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion....
When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind Or Destroy It
AuthorJonathan Watts
ISBN0571239811
Watts' evocative title is taken from his childhood prayer begging god to prevent the Earth being shaken from its axis by the force of the world's largest population landing in concert. His book offers no prospect of avoiding an equivalent catastrophe for the biosphere; 'China has jumped' he states,...
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