Niko's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:06:59 -0700 60 Niko's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (Political Theory Contem Issues)]]> 189807 391 August H. Nimtz Jr. 0791444902 Niko 0 to-read 4.50 2000 Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (Political Theory Contem Issues)
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]]> <![CDATA[Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets―or Both]]> 19282729 241 August H. Nimtz Jr. 1137393777 Niko 0 to-read 4.50 2014 Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets―or Both
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]]> <![CDATA[Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets―or Both]]> 19282885 295 August H. Nimtz Jr. 1137393785 Niko 0 to-read 3.50 2014 Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets―or Both
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]]> <![CDATA[Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929]]> 51823652 “In this book, an utterly extraordinary one in my opinion, the riddle of Stalin is at last resolved� Dimitry Bezrukikh, Russkaya Mysl

The first of two biographical volumes, Professor Robert C. Tucker covers Stalin’s life from his first revolutionary years until the end of the 1920s.

This important period of his life is the key to understanding how a dictator is formed and how his cruel totalitarian regime was born. With an in-depth analysis of Stalin’s personality and beliefs � set against a historical examination of Soviet society � this captivating book helps us to understand how and why Stalinism occurred.

Examining the events that led up to one of the 20th century’s most devastating spectacles, Stalin as Revolutionary is an intelligent and informative take on this terrifying political figure.


Praise for Stalin as Revolutionary

“Tucker has achieved a real breakthrough� his analysis throws a flood of light into previously obscure corners� Tucker with his analysis of Stalin’s personality structure has opened up an enormously promising vein of research.� Robert M. Slusser, American Historical Review

“This towering figure of the twentieth century has hitherto lacked a successful and full-scale biography� Robert Tucker marks the beginning of the end of this situation.� Robert H. McNeal, Russian Review

“An absorbing narrative and interpretation of Stalin’s early years and his development as a Bolshevik leader up to 1929 when he arrived at the summit of power� A superb work comparable to Isaac Deutscher’s multi-volume history of Trotsky.� George Charney, Library Journal

“Years of research and reflection have made this biography of Stalin’s early years a real historical and literary achievement.� Foreign Affairs

“[The book] looks like it’s transforming the field of Stalin studies... Tucker best brings the political and economic issues back to life, and the contenders with them.� Michael Ratcliffe, The Times

“I am not enamoured of most ‘psychoanalytic history.� Yet Tucker’s thesis is convincing, because he understands the Bolshevik story, knows that Stalin’s seizure of power was due to more than his machine politics and Machiavellian cunning, important though they were to him.� - Dillon O’Leary, The Ottawa Journal

“Having read Robert Tucker’s book, we now understand better, in my view, the causes of the events that we had to live through in the years of Stalinism.� - Mikhail Koriakov, Novoye Russkoye Slovo

“In this book, an utterly extraordinary one in my opinion, the riddle of Stalin is at last resolved.� - Dimitry Bezrukikh, Russkaya Mysl

Robert C. Tucker (1918 - 2010) was a distinguished Sovietologist at Princeton University whose Stalin biographies commanded wide attention. He was called ‘one of the greatest students of Stalin and Stalinism� by diplomat and Russian scholar, George F. Kennan. His books are used in college classrooms across the world today.
]]> 606 Robert C. Tucker Niko 0 to-read 3.89 1973 Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929
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]]> The Fire Next Time 464260 The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,� written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,� The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.]]> 106 James Baldwin 067974472X Niko 0 to-read 4.55 1963 The Fire Next Time
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conspiracy Against the Human Race]]> 8524528
"There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world."**

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.]]> 240 Thomas Ligotti 098242969X Niko 3 4.04 2011 The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Niko 2 4.04 1942 The Stranger
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]]> <![CDATA[Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books)]]> 34640994 336 Graham Harman 0241269156 Niko 2 3.69 2018 Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books)
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]]> Thinking, Fast and Slow 11468377 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.]]> 499 Daniel Kahneman 0374275637 Niko 2 4.17 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself]]> 26150770
In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level--and then how each connects to the other.  Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.]]> 480 Sean Carroll 0525954821 Niko 2 4.18 2016 The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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]]> <![CDATA[Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece]]> 1363427 223 Three Initiates 0911662251 Niko 2 4.17 1912 Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
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]]> <![CDATA[Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution]]> 57186849 A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean, and on the African continent. He was not only a witness of a Pan-African and socialist internationalism; in his efforts to build mass organizations, catalyze rebellious ferment, and theorize an anti-colonial path to self-emancipation, he can be counted among its prime authors. In drawing together pages where he elaborates on the nexus of race and class, offers his reflections on radical pedagogy, outlines programs for newly independent nation-states, considers the challenges of anti-colonial historiography, and produces balance sheets for a dozen wars for national liberation, this volume captures something of the range and power of Rodney's output. But it also demonstrates the unbending consistency that unites his life and work: the ongoing reinvention of living conception of Marxism, and a respect for the still untapped potential of mass self-rule.]]> 304 Walter Rodney Niko 0 currently-reading 4.52 Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[The Struggle for a Proletarian Party]]> 1484003 James P. Cannon 0873482603 Niko 5 4.34 1972 The Struggle for a Proletarian Party
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]]> <![CDATA[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]> 309498 131 David Hume 0915144166 Niko 0 currently-reading 4.39 1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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]]> <![CDATA[Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics]]> 117249 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

For Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), art almost ranked with religion and philosophy in its power to reveal the fundamental nature of existence. But although he lived in the German golden age of Goethe, Schiller and Mozart, he also believed that art was in terminal decline.

To resolve this apparent paradox, as Michael Inwood explains in his incisive Introduction, we must understand the particular place of aesthetics in Hegel's vast intellectual edifice. Its central pillars consist of logic, philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit. Art derives its value from offering a sensory vision of the God-like absolute, from its harmonious fusion of form and content, and from summing up the world-view of an age such as Homer's. While it scaled supreme heights in ancient Greece, Hegel doubted art's ability to encompass Christian belief or the reflective irony characteristic of modern societies. Many such challenging ideas are developed in this superb treatise; it counts among the most stimulating works of a master thinker.

Table of Contents
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics Introduction A Note on the Translation and Commentary
INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON AESTHETICS

Chapter I: The Range of Aesthetic Defined, and Some Objections against the Philosophy of Art Refuted
[α Aesthetic confined to Beauty of Art
β Does Art merit Scientific Treatment?
γ Is Scientific Treatment appropriate to Art?
δ Answer to β
ε Answer to γ]

Chapter II: Methods of Science Applicable to Beauty and Art
[1. Empirical Method - Art-scholarship
(a) Its Range
(b) It generates Rules and Theories
(c) The Rights of Genius
2. Abstract Reflection
3. The Philosophical Conception of Artistic Beauty, general notion of]

Chapter III: The Conception of Artistic Beauty
Part I - The Work of Art as Made and as Sensuous
1. Work of Art as Product of Human Activity
[(a) Conscious Production by Rule
(b) Artistic Inspiration
(c) Dignity of Production by Man
(d) Man's Need to produce Works of Art]
2. Work of Art as addressed to Man's Sense
[(a) Object of Art - Pleasant Feeling?
(b) Feeling of Beauty - Taste
(c) Art-scholarship
(d) Profounder Consequences of Sensuous Nature of Art
(α) Relations of the Sensuous to the Mind
(αα) Desire
(ββ) Theory
(γγ) Sensuous as Symbol of Spiritual
(β) The Sensuous Element, how Present in the Artist
(γ) The Content of Art Sensuous]

Part II - The End of Art
3. [The Interest or End of Art
(a) Imitation of Nature?
(α) Mere Repetition of Nature is -
(αα) Superfluous
(ββ) Imperfect
(γγ) Amusing Merely as Sleight of Hand
(β) What is Good to Imitate?
(γ) Some Arts cannot be called Imitative
(b) Humani nihil - ?
(c) Mitigation of the Passions?
(α) How Art mitigates the Passions
(β) How Art purifies the Passions
(αα) It must have a Worthy Content
(ββ) But ought not to be Didactic
(γγ) Nor explicitly addressed to a Moral Purpose
(d) Art has its own Purpose as Revelation of Truth]

Chapter IV: Historical Deducation of the True Idea of Art in Modern Philosophy
1. Kant
[(a) Pleasure in Beauty not Appetitive
(b) Pleasure in Beauty Universal
(c) The Beautiful in its Teleological Aspect
(d) Delight in the Beautiful necessary though felt]
2. Schiller, Winckelmann, Schelling
3. The Irony

Chapter V: Division of the Subject
[1. The Condition of Artistic Presentation is the Correspondence of Matter and Plastic Form
2. Part I - The Ideal
3. Part II - The Types of Art
(α) Symbolic Art
(β) Classical Art
(γ) Romantic Art
4. Part III - The Several Arts
(α) Architecture
(β) Sculpture
(γ) Romantic Art, comprising
(i) Painting
(ii) Music
(iii) Poetry
5. Conclusion]

Commentary

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]]> <![CDATA[Imperialism and the National Question (The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024)]]> 130122537
Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties in the face of their respective national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was a popular outline book, The Highest Stage of Capitalism, which went on to become a core text for the international communist movement.

But Lenin also sought to break with the Eurocentrism of the socialist movement that tended to look down with disdain at or simply reject struggles for self-determination especially by colonised peoples. This volume, introduced by the renowned abolitionist and anti-imperialist theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, brings together both the texts on imperialism and those on the national question to provide a window into Lenin's global vision of revolution.]]> 304 Vladimir Lenin 1804292710 Niko 5 4.60 Imperialism and the National Question (The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024)
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Niko 0 to-read 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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]]> <![CDATA[One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Foundations, #44)]]> 125066286
Corrections have been made in accordance with the Fifth Russian Edition of the "Collected Works."]]> 235 Vladimir Lenin 2493844408 Niko 0 currently-reading 4.50 1904 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Foundations, #44)
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]]> All Things are Nothing to Me 39741899 168 Blumenfeld Jacob 1780996632 Niko 3 3.80 All Things are Nothing to Me
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]]> Some Desperate Glory 58388343 While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.

Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.]]> 438 Emily Tesh 1250834988 Niko 0 to-read 4.01 2023 Some Desperate Glory
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]]> Walkaway 40604388
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza—known to his friends as Hubert, Etc—was too old to be at that Communist party.

But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be—except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society—and walk away.

After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter—from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system.

It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war � a war that will turn the world upside down.

Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation science fiction thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences.]]> 384 Cory Doctorow Niko 0 to-read 3.76 2017 Walkaway
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]]> <![CDATA[A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably]]> 7031899 276 Johnson Wright 0804727899 Niko 0 to-read 0.0 1997 A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably
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]]> <![CDATA[The Classical Republicans: An Essay on the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth-Century England]]> 14516650 244 Zera S. Fink 1610977556 Niko 0 to-read 3.00 2011 The Classical Republicans: An Essay on the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth-Century England
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]]> <![CDATA[Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167BC]]> 1706911 288 Antonio Santosuosso 081333277X Niko 0 to-read 3.71 1997 Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167BC
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]]> <![CDATA[Barbarians, Marauders, And Infidels: The Ways Of Medieval Warfare]]> 377654 360 Antonio Santosuosso 0813391539 Niko 0 to-read 3.53 2004 Barbarians, Marauders, And Infidels: The Ways Of Medieval Warfare
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]]> Sophist (Hackett Classics) 26995 112 Plato 087220202X Niko 5 4.09 -360 Sophist (Hackett Classics)
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Was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did
]]> <![CDATA[The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System]]> 6588124 256 James R. Harris 0801434785 Niko 0 to-read 4.00 1999 The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System
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]]> <![CDATA[The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry]]> 13180597
In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins' understanding of what science can do is old-fashioned and itself a delusion.]]> 392 Rupert Sheldrake 1444727923 Niko 0 to-read 4.05 2012 The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
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]]> <![CDATA[The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852]]> 2854291 228 Maurice Agulhon 0521289882 Niko 0 to-read 3.50 1983 The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852
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]]> <![CDATA[Prometheus bound: The mythic structure of Karl Marx's scientific thinking]]> 1168379 Book by Wessell, Leonard P. 312 Leonard P. Wessell 0807111422 Niko 0 to-read 0.0 1984 Prometheus bound: The mythic structure of Karl Marx's scientific thinking
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]]> <![CDATA[Karl Marx, romantic irony, and the proletariat: The mythopoetic origins of Marxism]]> 643185 English, French, German 297 Leonard P. Wessell 0807105872 Niko 0 to-read 4.50 1979 Karl Marx, romantic irony, and the proletariat: The mythopoetic origins of Marxism
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]]> <![CDATA[Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States]]> 51801402 Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity.

McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness.

Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail--and how they can do better.]]> 248 Erin Metz McDonnell 0691197350 Niko 0 to-read 5.00 Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States
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]]> <![CDATA[Religious Influences on Economic Thinking: The Origins of Modern Economics (Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture Series)]]> 202496074 How religious thinking was—and remains—a central influence shaping economics.

The conventional view of economics is that the field was a product of the Enlightenment and, therefore, bore no relation to religious ideas. But is this true? In Religious Influences on Economic Thinking, Benjamin Friedman shows that religious thinking was, in fact, a powerful force in shaping the initial development of modern Western economics and that it has remained an influence on economic thinking ever since. Friedman argues that an important influence enabling the insights of Adam Smith and his contemporaries was the new and highly controversial line of religious thinking at that time in the English-speaking Protestant world.

Friedman explains that the influence of religious thinking on modern economic thought at the field’s inception established resonances that have persisted through the subsequent centuries, even as the economic context has evolved and the questions economists ask have shifted along with it. Because we are largely not conscious of these influences, neither in the past nor as they are at work today, we are sometimes puzzled when we stumble across evidence of them—for example, in the otherwise hard-to-explain attitudes that many of our fellow citizens express on issues like estate taxes, business regulation, and environmental restrictions. But they are still at work. Understanding them can only enhance the economics profession’s capacity to contribute to our ongoing public discussion of the important questions on which the discipline so usefully bears.]]> 97 Benjamin M. Friedman 0262379406 Niko 0 to-read 3.33 Religious Influences on Economic Thinking: The Origins of Modern Economics (Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Inner Adversary: The Struggle Against Philistinism As the Moral Mission of the Russian Intelligentsia]]> 6880679 372 Timo Vihavainen 0977790827 Niko 0 to-read 0.0 2006 The Inner Adversary: The Struggle Against Philistinism As the Moral Mission of the Russian Intelligentsia
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]]> <![CDATA[Rethinking the Russian Revolution]]> 403236 232 Edward Acton 0713165308 Niko 0 to-read 3.61 1990 Rethinking the Russian Revolution
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]]> <![CDATA[The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military]]> 25628480 The Red Army and the Great Terror, Peter Whitewood advances an entirely new explanation for Stalin's actions—an explanation with the potential to unlock the mysteries that still surround the Great Terror, the surge of political repression in the late 1930s in which over one million Soviet people were imprisoned in labor camps and over 750,000 executed.

Framing his study within the context of Soviet civil-military relations dating back to the 1917 revolution, Whitewood shows that Stalin sanctioned this attack on the Red Army not from a position of confidence and strength, but from one of weakness and misperception. Here we see how Stalin's views had been poisoned by the paranoid accusations of his secret police, who saw spies and supporters of the dead Tsar everywhere and who had long believed that the Red Army was vulnerable to infiltration by foreign intelligence agencies engaged in a conspiracy against the Soviet state. Recently opened Russian archives allow Whitewood to counter the accounts of Soviet defectors and conspiracy theories that have long underpinned conventional wisdom on the military purge. By broadening our view, The Red Army and the Great Terror demonstrates not only why Tukhachevskii and his associates were purged in 1937, but also why tens of thousands of other officers and soldiers were discharged and arrested at the same time. With its thorough reassessment of these events, the book sheds new light on the nature of power, state violence, and civil-military relations under the Stalinist regime.]]> 368 Peter Whitewood 0700621172 Niko 0 to-read 3.94 2015 The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard]]> 281664 256 Søren Kierkegaard 0806502517 Niko 0 to-read 3.99 1938 The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)]]> 25597060
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.]]> 416 Liu Cixin Niko 3 4.08 2006 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
author: Liu Cixin
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average rating: 4.08
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rating: 3
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]]> Metaphilosophy 25489319
In Metaphilosophy , Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becoming philosophical and philosophy becoming worldly� as a leitmotif, examining the relation between Hegelian–Marxist supersession and Nietzschean overcoming. Metaphilosophy is conceived of as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book demonstrates Lefebvre’s threefold debt to Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, but it also brings a number of other figures into the conversation, including Sartre, Heidegger and Axelos. A key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre, Metaphilosophy is also a milestone in contemporary thinking about philosophy’s relation to the world.]]> 384 Henri Lefebvre 1784782742 Niko 0 to-read 4.00 2016 Metaphilosophy
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]]> Che: A Memoir 405909
Fidel Castro, in an unusually gentle, quite emotional mood, remarks, “For me it has been hard to accept the idea that Che is dead. I have dreamed of him often, that I spoke with him, that he was alive . . .� Includes Castro’s speech on the return of Che’s remains to Cuba in 1997.]]> 200 Fidel Castro 192088825X Niko 0 to-read 3.79 1994 Che: A Memoir
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]]> The Meaning of Truth 2879732 The Meaning of Truth 140 William James 1604500891 Niko 3 3.00 1909 The Meaning of Truth
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Not as strong as its prequel, pragmatism, but contains many important arguments and insights.
]]> <![CDATA[Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts (Rethinking Globalizations)]]> 36761309 0 Heikki Patomaki 1351660616 Niko 0 to-read 3.20 Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts (Rethinking Globalizations)
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]]> The Birth of Communist China 2990600
After sketching in the background of China's long history and social structure C. P. Fitzgerald, who is now Professor of Far Eastern History at Canberra, opens his main account at the fall of the Manchu Emperors in 1911 and traces the origins of revolution through the early republic of Sun Yat-sen and the Nationalist dictatorship of Chiang Kal-shek to the military campaigns Mao Tse-tung. He assesses the varying influences of Confucianism and Christianity, of East and West, and of the Japanese and Russians on this massive movement, and makes it abundantly clear that the China of today is not an inexplicable freak but a logical developmentof its immensely long past. Professor Fitzgerald has a gift for fluent narrative and a long experience of China, and his interpretation of one of the central political events of this century is as readable as it is reliable,]]> 288 C.P. Fitzgerald Niko 0 to-read 3.92 1952 The Birth of Communist China
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]]> <![CDATA[Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist's Odyssey Through the "American Century" (Revolutionary Studies)]]> 3435677 346 Peter Drucker 039103815X Niko 0 to-read 4.30 1993 Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist's Odyssey Through the "American Century" (Revolutionary Studies)
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name: Niko
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]]> <![CDATA[Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising]]> 2187316 300 Alexander Rabinowitch 0253206618 Niko 0 to-read 4.52 1968 Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising
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]]> <![CDATA[Philosophical Thoughts and other texts]]> 19326902
This new translation from the original French also contains the "Additions to the Philosophical Thoughts," "Two Excluded Thoughts" and "On the Adequacy of Natural Religion" in which Diderot advances his attack on, and offers a positive alternative to, all the religions based on Holy Scripture.

Due to customer response, this edition has been revised to conform to American spelling conventions.]]> 77 Denis Diderot Niko 0 to-read 4.09 Philosophical Thoughts and other texts
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]]> The Sane Society 40717990
One of Fromm’s main interests was to analyze social systems and their impact on the mental health of the individual. In this study, he reaches further and asks: �Can a society be sick?� He finds that it can, arguing that Western culture is immersed in a “pathology of normalcy� that affects the mental health of individuals.

In The Sane Society, Fromm examines the alienating effects of modern capitalism, and discusses historical and contemporary alternatives, particularly communitarian systems. Finally, he presents new ideas for a re-organization of economics, politics, and culture that would support the individual’s mental health and our profound human needs for love and freedom.]]> 386 Erich Fromm Niko 0 to-read 4.26 1955 The Sane Society
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]]> <![CDATA[Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work]]> 26870292 A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work

Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.

Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitaiist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms.]]> 256 Nick Srnicek 1784780979 Niko 0 currently-reading 3.97 2015 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
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]]> On China 9328314
Since no other country can claim a more powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles, any attempt to understand China's future world role must begin with an appreciation of its long history. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication; it was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as vassal states. At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess.

In On China, Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generation of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny.

With his singular vantage on U.S.-China relations, Kissinger traces the evolution of this fraught but crucial relationship over the past 60 years, following its dramatic course from estrangement to strategic partnership to economic interdependence, and toward an uncertain future. With a final chapter on the emerging superpower's 21st-century world role, On China provides an intimate historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of the 20th century.]]> 608 Henry Kissinger 1594202710 Niko 0 to-read 4.16 2011 On China
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]]> <![CDATA[Materialism and Empirio-criticism]]> 57676127 338 Vladimir Lenin 1913026205 Niko 3 4.40 1909 Materialism and Empirio-criticism
author: Vladimir Lenin
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I have such mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, nearly everything he says about what Bogdanov thinks is just flat out wrong. On the other hand, when he stops neurotically shitting on Bogdanov for no reason, he actually has insightful things to say, and makes solid points about what the foundations of a materialist epistemology should look like. About 50 percent of the time I was thinking “this is great,� and the other 50 percent I was like “this is utter horseshit� and of course, the horse shit mostly comes up when he’s talking about Bogdanov. Overall, I would recommend this book, but if you decide to read it, keep in mind that pretty much every criticism he makes of Bogdanov is just utter nonsense or flat out wrong. What makes it worth reading are the positive statements he makes about epistemology and materialism, not his criticism of Bogdanov.
]]> <![CDATA[Civilization and Its Discontents]]> 357636 127 Sigmund Freud 0393301583 Niko 3 3.79 1930 Civilization and Its Discontents
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-governing Character Structure]]> 781664 "What we are living through," Reich stated, "is a genuine, deep-reaching revolution of cultural living [which] goes to the roots of our emotional, social and economic existence. ... The senses of the animal, man, for his natural life functions are awakening from a sleep of thousands of years."

The Sexual Revolution was first published in English in 1945. This revised fourth edition includes Reich's prefaces as well as all the other material that appeared in earlier editions.

]]> 312 Wilhelm Reich 0374502684 Niko 4 4.00 1936 The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-governing Character Structure
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]]> Sun & Steel 96592 107 Yukio Mishima 0394177657 Niko 3 3.86 1968 Sun & Steel
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]]> A Streetcar Named Desire 12220 Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams� essay “The World I Live In.�

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared�57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams� A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the �40s and �50s.]]> 107 Tennessee Williams 0822210894 Niko 3 3.98 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)]]> 5940939 Series Info:
This is the first part of the "Forever War" series, however it can be read as a standalone.

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The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries.]]> 265 Joe Haldeman 0312536631 Niko 5 4.10 1974 The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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Probably some of the best sci fi I’ve read in a long time, besides Dune.
]]> <![CDATA[Forever Free (The Forever War, #2)]]> 21620 277 Joe Haldeman 1857989317 Niko 0 to-read 3.39 1999 Forever Free (The Forever War, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Communists Like Us: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance (SEMIOTEXT)]]> 330194 politics after the fall. 256 Antonio Negri 0936756217 Niko 0 to-read 3.55 1990 Communists Like Us: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance (SEMIOTEXT)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Algebra of Revolution: The Dialectic and the Classical Marxist Tradition (Revolutionary Studies)]]> 189927 324 John Rees 0415198771 Niko 0 to-read 3.96 1997 The Algebra of Revolution: The Dialectic and the Classical Marxist Tradition (Revolutionary Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)]]> 164154 334 Walter M. Miller Jr. 0060892994 Niko 0 to-read 3.99 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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]]> Starship Troopers 17214
In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy.
]]> 264 Robert A. Heinlein Niko 0 to-read 4.01 1959 Starship Troopers
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]]> The Iron Heel 70792 The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government surveillance and authority. What begins as a war of words ends in scenes of harrowing violence as the state oligarchy, known as "the Iron Heel," moves to crush all opposition to its power.]]> 251 Jack London 0143039717 Niko 4 3.45 1908 The Iron Heel
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Great book. Is a bit slow at first but it speeds up very quickly
]]> The Faerie Queene 765427 Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.]]> 1248 Edmund Spenser Niko 0 to-read 3.57 1590 The Faerie Queene
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emancipation of Labor: A History of the First International (Contributions in Labor Studies)]]> 8764703
Unlike previous historians and writers who generally aligned themselves with either Marx or Bakunin, the great rivals in the movement, author Henryk Katz offers a history of the group and its scores of fascinating personalities. He surveys the First International in the context of the general history of the period from 1846 to 1874, as well as in the context of the worldwide movements of liberation that included the freeing of American slaves, the emancipation of Russian serfs, and the unification of Italy. Katz also fully describes the major role the First International played in the process of the revival and expansion of the West European labor movement. Working from primary and secondary sources, Katz presents a secularized history of the International that will be a valuable reference tool for both libraries and a wide variety of history, political science, and sociology courses.]]> 216 Henryk Katz 0313274479 Niko 0 to-read 3.50 1992 The Emancipation of Labor: A History of the First International (Contributions in Labor Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century]]> 62713605
Ultimately, this book suggests that the birth of law and order politics as we know it can be found in nineteenth-century campaigns of organized terror against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines conducted by Klansmen, lawmen, vigilantes, and union busters.]]> 324 Chad E. Pearson 1469671735 Niko 0 to-read 3.00 2022 Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[Political Economy of U.S. Militarism]]> 142134 301 Ismael Hossein-zadeh 1403972850 Niko 0 to-read 3.75 2006 Political Economy of U.S. Militarism
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]]> A Pluralistic Universe 2723192 405 William James 0803275919 Niko 0 to-read 4.10 1908 A Pluralistic Universe
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]]> <![CDATA[Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking]]> 2238678
In this book, James tests competing systems of thought in the "marketplace of actual experience" to determine their validity. In other words, he examines whether adopting a particular philosophical theory or way of looking at the world makes an actual difference in individual conduct. James not only makes a strong case for his own ideas but also mounts a powerful attack against the transcendental and rationalist tradition.]]> 142 William James 0760749965 Niko 5 3.77 1907 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
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]]> Fathers and Sons 19117
Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.

Introduction by Jane Costlow]]> 244 Ivan Turgenev 0451529693 Niko 0 to-read 3.99 1862 Fathers and Sons
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]]> Dead Souls 28381 Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.

In his introduction to this new translation, Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogol's life and literary career, his depiction of Russian society, and the language and narrative techniques employed in Dead Souls. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading, appendices, a glossary, map and notes.]]> 464 Nikolai Gogol 0140448071 Niko 0 to-read 4.00 1842 Dead Souls
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]]> The Jungle 41681
When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary.

The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905.
It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition.

A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition.]]> 335 Upton Sinclair 1884365302 Niko 0 to-read 3.77 1906 The Jungle
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]]> The Sound and the Fury 10975 366 William Faulkner Niko 0 to-read 3.86 1929 The Sound and the Fury
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]]> The Merchant of Venice 24128 249 William Shakespeare 0743477561 Niko 0 to-read 3.77 1596 The Merchant of Venice
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]]> The Grapes of Wrath 18114322
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]> 496 John Steinbeck 067001690X Niko 0 to-read 4.06 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Niko 5 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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]]> The Red Pony 8732 95 John Steinbeck Niko 4 3.49 1933 The Red Pony
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]]> Essays and Aphorisms 19510 Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. He depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, each individual absolutely free within a Godless world in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative and pessimistic view proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, affecting the work of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein among others.]]> 240 Arthur Schopenhauer 0140442278 Niko 3 4.17 1851 Essays and Aphorisms
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]]> <![CDATA[The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren (American Philosophy)]]> 13796878 The Practical Anarchist brings to light the work of Josiah Warren, eccentric American genius. Devoting his life to showing the practicality of an astonishing ideal, Warren devoted equal industry to the question of how to make a pair of shoes and how to remake the social world into an individualist paradise.

This will be the first chance for many readers to encounter Warren’s writings, and in many cases their first publication since their original appearance in obscure, self-published periodicals, including The Peaceful Revolutionist (1833), the first American anarchist periodical. Moreover, they often appeared in a bizarre experimental typography.

This volume presents, out of the welter of bewildering writings left by Warren, a reading text designed for today� readers and students. It seeks to convey the practical value of many of Warren’s ideas, their continuing relevance.]]> 304 Crispin Sartwell 0823233707 Niko 3 3.93 2011 The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren (American Philosophy)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark]]> 17349
Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.]]> 459 Carl Sagan 0345409469 Niko 3 4.28 1995 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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]]> <![CDATA[Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo]]> 30292 Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works (Hacket, 1997). Cooper has also contributed a number of new or expanded footnotes and updated Suggestions for Further Reading.]]> 156 Plato 0872206335 Niko 4 4.16 -385 Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
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]]> Common Sense 161744 Pennsylvania Magazine. On January 10, 1776, he published his pamphlet Common Sense, a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain.

Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Credited by George Washington as having changed the minds of many of his countrymen, the document sold over 500,000 copies within a few months.

Today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only by Paine's ideas but also by its clear and passionate presentation. Designed to ignite public opinion against autocratic rule, the pamphlet offered a careful balance between imagination and judgment, and appropriate language and expression to fit the subject. It immediately found a receptive audience, heartened Washington's despondent army, and foreshadowed much of the phrasing and substance of the Declaration of Independence.]]> 104 Thomas Paine 0143036254 Niko 4 3.96 1776 Common Sense
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]]> Rights of Man 177523 229 Thomas Paine 0543954617 Niko 4 random-shit 4.03 1791 Rights of Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits]]> 451565 428 Friedrich Nietzsche 0521567041 Niko 3 4.23 1878 Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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]]> The Crucible 17250
Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, "Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."

WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.
(back cover)]]> 143 Arthur Miller 0142437336 Niko 3 3.60 1953 The Crucible
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]]> <![CDATA[The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age]]> 35397007 The Existentialist's Survival Guide, Gordon Marino, director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College and boxing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, recasts the practical takeaways existentialism offers for the twenty-first century. From negotiating angst, depression, despair, and death to practicing faith, morality, and love, Marino dispenses wisdom on how to face existence head-on while keeping our hearts intact, especially when the universe feels like it’s working against us and nothing seems to matter.

What emerges are life-altering and, in some cases, lifesaving epiphanies—existential prescriptions for living with integrity, courage, and authenticity in an increasingly chaotic, uncertain, and inauthentic age.

ձ> 272 Gordon Marino 0062435981 Niko 2 2019-school-year 3.62 2018 The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
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]]> Meditations 30659 Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries.]]> 254 Marcus Aurelius 0140449337 Niko 3 4.29 180 Meditations
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]]> On Contradiction 6329592
Alguns dos escritos de Mao - como "Sobre a prática" e "Sobre a contradição" - são de leitura obrigatória para todos os que desejam compreender a filosofia política de um dos mais importantes revolucionários do século XX.]]> 58 Mao Zedong Niko 2 Not good 4.23 1952 On Contradiction
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]]> The Prince 28862
1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people.
2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him.
3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose.
4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory.
5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression.
6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope.
7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters,
8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure.
9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice
10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.]]> 144 Niccolò Machiavelli 0937832383 Niko 4 3.85 1513 The Prince
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]]> <![CDATA[The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: A New Translation]]> 31146559
The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic reignited the esoteric spiritual search in the West and led to the emergence of Madame Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the New Age revolution.

Lévi's study of magic is an absolute must for every seeker in occult, esoteric, and druidic realms; but this need has been frustrated by dated and inaccurate translations--until now. Greer, a respected occult scholar, and Mikituk, a masterful translator, collaborate to restore this landmark work--complete with its original illustrations and symbols--to the center of the alternative spiritual canon.]]> 512 Éliphas Lévi 0143111035 Niko 3 4.06 1854 The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: A New Translation
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]]> The 48 Laws of Power 1303 Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control � from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling� and “fascinating,� Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master�), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness�), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally�). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.]]> 452 Robert Greene 0140280197 Niko 2 4.11 1998 The 48 Laws of Power
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]]> The Brothers Karamazov 4934
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Niko 5 4.36 1880 The Brothers Karamazov
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]]> Selected Poems 112200 256 Emily Dickinson 0517206064 Niko 4 4.22 1890 Selected Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Meditations on First Philosophy]]> 30658 59 René Descartes 0872201929 Niko 3 3.76 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy
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]]> <![CDATA[Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity]]> 85767 Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.]]> 236 Judith Butler 0415389550 Niko 3 Mediocre at best 4.08 1989 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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]]> <![CDATA[The Science and Passion of Communism : Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)]]> 59121573
Equally important was his sharp critique of triumphant U.S. capitalism in the post-WWII period, and his original re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy, which includes the capital-nature and capital-species relationships, and the programme of social transformations for the revolution to come.

Without any form of canonization, we can say that Bordiga’s huge workshop is a veritable goldmine, and anyone who decides to enter it will not be disappointed. He will guide you through a series of instructive, energizing and often highly topical excursions into the near and distant past, into the present that he largely foresaw, and into the future that he sketched with devouring passion.]]> 658 Amadeo Bordiga 1642593478 Niko 4 3.80 The Science and Passion of Communism : Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance]]> 15893652 The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco "Bifo" Berardi argues that the notion of economic recovery is complete mythology. The coming years will inevitably see new surges of protest and violence, but the old models of resistance no longer apply. Society can either stick with the prescriptions and "rescues" that the economic and financial sectors have demanded at the expense of social happiness, culture, and the public good; or it can formulate an alternative. For Berardi, this alternative lies in understanding the current crisis as something more fundamental than an economic crisis: it is a crisis of the social imagination, and demands a new language by which to address it.

This is a manifesto against the idea of growth, and against the concept of debt, the financial sector's two primary linguistic means of manipulating society. It is a call for exhaustion, and for resistance to the cult of energy on which today's economic free-floating market depends. To this end, Berardi introduces an unexpected linguistic political weapon--poetry: poetry as the insolvency of language, as the sensuous birth of meaning and desire, as that which cannot be reduced to information and exchanged like currency. If the protests now stirring about the world are to take shape and direction, then the revolution will be neither peaceful nor violent--it will be linguistic, or will not be at all.]]> 176 Franco "Bifo" Berardi 1584351128 Niko 2 3.95 2012 The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
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]]> Thirteen Reasons Why 29844228 You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.]]> 352 Jay Asher 1595147888 Niko 2 2019-school-year 3.71 2007 Thirteen Reasons Why
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]]> Leninism 189919 Rather than tracing the roots of Leninism to the details of Lenin’s biography, Harding shows how it emerged as a revolutionary Marxist response to the First World War and to the perceived treachery—the support of that war—by social democratic leaders. The economics, politics, and philosophy of Leninism, he argues, were rapidly theorized between 1914 and 1918 and deeply imprinted with the peculiarities of the wartime experience. Its complementary metaphysics of history and science was as intrinsic to its confidence and sureness of purpose as it was to its contempt for democratic practice and tolerance. But, as Harding also shows, although Leninism articulated a complex and coherent critique of capitalist civilization and held a powerful appeal to a variety of constituencies, it was itself caught in a timewarp that fatally limited its capacity to adapt. This book will engage not only Russian and Soviet specialists, but also readers concerned with the varieties of twentieth-century socialism.]]> 356 Neil Harding 0822318679 Niko 0 to-read 3.89 Leninism
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]]> <![CDATA[Lenin's Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions]]> 7032468 740 Neil Harding 1931859892 Niko 0 to-read 4.76 1978 Lenin's Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions
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]]> <![CDATA[Engels, armies, and revolution: The revolutionary tactics of classical Marxism]]> 3080414 239 Martin Berger 0208016503 Niko 0 to-read 4.00 1977 Engels, armies, and revolution: The revolutionary tactics of classical Marxism
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]]> The Re-Conquest of Ireland 59040159 100 James Connolly Niko 3 4.12 2004 The Re-Conquest of Ireland
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