War in Human Civilization
8 best books like War in Human Civilization (Azar Gat): The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, New Seeds of Contemplation, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, Short Letter, Long Farewell, Love and Death in the American Novel, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
| Author | Michael Pillsbury |
| ISBN | 1627790101 |
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role...
| Author | Peter Handke |
| ISBN | 1590170199 |
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
| Author | Rod Dreher |
| ISBN | 0735213291 |
In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.
The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over the...
New Seeds of Contemplation
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0811217248 |
New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have...
| Author | Nicholas J. Wade |
| ISBN | 1594204462 |
Drawing on startling new evidence from the human genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story
Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically...
| Author | Peter Handke |
| ISBN | 1590173066 |
Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get...
| Author | Leslie A. Fiedler |
| ISBN | 1564781631 |
A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as “one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work.” This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and...
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
| Author | Graham Allison |
| ISBN | 0544935276 |
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece,...
