Reza H.'s bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:49:03 -0700 60 Reza H.'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within]]> 96177657
'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE
'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS
'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
'Exceptional' RAFAEL BEHR

The Times pick for *The Biggest Books of the Autumn*

Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.

Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow our democracy and government had become.

Cronyism, ignorance and sheer incompetence ran rampant. Around him, individual politicians laid the foundations for the political and economic chaos of today. Stewart emerged battered but with a profound affection for his constituency of Penrith and the Border, and a deep direct insight into the era of populism and global conflict.

Uncompromising, candid and darkly humorous, Politics On the Edge is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life and a remarkable portrait of our age.]]> 436 Rory Stewart Reza H. 0 4.33 2023 Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
author: Rory Stewart
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[The Trading Game: A Confession]]> 188543465
'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?

Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger.

Then he won a competition run by a 'The Trading Game'. The a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon you're the bank's most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day . Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all.

But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer - and, as the economy starts slipping off a precipice, your own sanity starts slipping with it? You want to stop, but you can't. Because nobody ever leaves .

Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?]]> 352 Gary Stevenson 0593727215 Reza H. 0 4.20 2024 The Trading Game: A Confession
author: Gary Stevenson
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!]]> 18872437 322 M.J. DeMarco 0984358102 Reza H. 0 4.28 2010 The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!
author: M.J. DeMarco
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online]]> 25054961 275 Russell Brunson 1630474789 Reza H. 0 4.22 2011 DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online
author: Russell Brunson
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works]]> 16286419
� From a successful entrepreneur who is reaping the rewardsof the entrepreneurial age
� How to shift your mind-set and think like anentrepreneur
� Ways to adapt your lifestyle to be more successful]]> 232 Daniel Priestley 085708416X Reza H. 0 4.01 2013 Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works
author: Daniel Priestley
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> First Lie Wins 164444179 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593492918.

Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.

Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn’t like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher—but then, Evie has always liked a challenge. . . .]]> 340 Ashley Elston Reza H. 0 to-read, mystery-thriller 3.97 2024 First Lie Wins
author: Ashley Elston
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> Listen for the Lie 127279000 What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?

Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all and, if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. But after Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer.

It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life. But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast Listen for the Lie and its too-good looking host, Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one who did it.

The truth is out there, if we just listen.]]> 352 Amy Tintera 1250880319 Reza H. 0 to-read, mystery-thriller 4.07 2024 Listen for the Lie
author: Amy Tintera
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> The Silent Patient 40097951
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Reza H. 0 4.18 2019 The Silent Patient
author: Alex Michaelides
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism]]> 1032019 The World Is Flat head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism.

One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers—from the U.S. to Britain to his native Korea—all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and—via our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization—ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.

Unlike typical economists who construct models of how the marketplace should work, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanct—but developed our own industries by studiously copying others' technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth—but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on nations that are struggling to follow in our footsteps.]]> 288 Ha-Joon Chang 1596913991 Reza H. 0 4.19 2007 Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
author: Ha-Joon Chang
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 2007
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]]> Economics: The User's Guide 20613671 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works—in real-world terms. Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks.

Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline, Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why  there is no one way to explain economic behavior. Instead, by ignoring the received wisdom and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial world, Chang gives us the tools we need to understand our increasingly global and interconnected world often driven by economics. From the future of the Euro, inequality in China, or the condition of the American manufacturing industry here in the United States�Economics: The User’s Guide is a concise and expertly crafted guide to economic fundamentals that offers a clear and accurate picture of the global economy and how and why it affects our daily lives.]]> 384 Ha-Joon Chang 1620408120 Reza H. 0 4.16 2014 Economics: The User's Guide
author: Ha-Joon Chang
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism]]> 10733801 Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works.

In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including:
There's no such thing as a 'free' market
Globalization isn't making the world richer
We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet
Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones
Higher paid managers don't produce better results
We don't have to accept things as they are any longer. Ha-Joon Chang is here to show us there's a better way.

'Lively, accessible and provocative ... read this book'
Sunday Times

'A witty and timely debunking of some of the biggest myths surrounding the global economy'
Observer

'The new kid on the economics block ... Chang's iconoclastic attitude has won him fans'
Independent on Sunday

'Lucid ... audacious ... increasingly influential ... will provoke physical symptoms of revulsion if you are in any way involved in high finance'

Guardian

'Important ... persuasive ... an engaging case for a more caring era of globalization'
Financial Times

'A must-read ... incisive and entertaining'
New Statesman Books of the Year

Ha-Joon Chang is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, which won the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize, and Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World. Since the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian, and a vocal critic of the failures of our economic system.]]> 286 Ha-Joon Chang 0141047976 Reza H. 0 3.92 2010 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
author: Ha-Joon Chang
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
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]]> Reporter: A Memoir 36896499 368 Seymour M. Hersh 0307263959 Reza H. 0 4.08 2018 Reporter: A Memoir
author: Seymour M. Hersh
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World]]> 61966364 A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind

In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration—the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina—John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world.

Fire has been a partner in our evolution for millennia, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways.

With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation that modern forest fires wreak, and into lives forever changed by these disasters. His urgent work is a book for—and from—our new century of fire, which has only just begun.]]> 432 John Vaillant 1524732850 Reza H. 0 4.32 2023 Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
author: John Vaillant
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing]]> 43205240
For the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses; what it felt like to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses� Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ’s mistresses. He gratefully remembers how, after years of loneliness, he found a writers� community at the New York Public Library’s Frederick Lewis Allen Room and details the ways he goes about planning and composing his books.
Caro recalls the moments at which he came to understand that he wanted to write not just about the men who wielded power but about the people and the politics that were shaped by that power. And he talks about the importance to him of the writing itself, of how he tries to infuse it with a sense of place and mood to bring characters and situations to life on the page. Taken together, these reminiscences–some previously published, some written expressly for this book–bring into focus the passion, the wry self-deprecation, and the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work.]]> 231 Robert A. Caro 0525656340 Reza H. 0 4.42 2019 Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
author: Robert A. Caro
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News]]> 44029601 The things that are said on camera are only part of the story.

Behind every interview there is a backstory. How it came about. How it ended. The compromises that were made. The regrets, the rows, the deeply inappropriate comedy.

Making news is an essential but imperfect art, and it rarely goes according to plan.

I never expected to find myself wandering around the Maharani of Jaipur's bedroom with Bill Clinton or invited to the Miss USA beauty pageant by its owner, Donald Trump. I never expected to be thrown into a provincial Cuban jail, or to be drinking red wine at Steve Bannon's kitchen table or spend three hours in a lift with Alan Partridge.

I certainly didn't expect the Dalai Lama to tell me the story of his most memorable poo.

The beauty of television is its ability to simplify, but that's also its weakness: it can distil everything down to one snapshot, one soundbite. Then the news cycle moves on.]]> 375 Emily Maitlis 140593834X Reza H. 0 4.08 2019 Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News
author: Emily Maitlis
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2019
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]]> Inhumans 754915 288 Paul Jenkins 0785107533 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.87 2000 Inhumans
author: Paul Jenkins
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> Civil War: Front Line, Vol. 2 396142 176 Paul Jenkins 0785124691 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.00 2007 Civil War: Front Line, Vol. 2
author: Paul Jenkins
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
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]]> Civil War: Front Line, Vol. 1 396141 208 Paul Jenkins 0785123121 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.02 2007 Civil War: Front Line, Vol. 1
author: Paul Jenkins
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Dark Knight, Volume 1: Knight Terrors]]> 13227268
Collecting: Batman: The Dark Knight 1-9]]> 208 Paul Jenkins 1401235433 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.82 2012 Batman: The Dark Knight, Volume 1: Knight Terrors
author: Paul Jenkins
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Wolverine: Origin 22469 160 Paul Jenkins 0785123288 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.00 2001 Wolverine: Origin
author: Paul Jenkins
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> Judge Dredd Volume 1 17131903 120 Duane Swierczynski 1613775962 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.62 2013 Judge Dredd Volume 1
author: Duane Swierczynski
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2013
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]]> Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War 8719760
COLLECTING:

Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War #1-4]]> 112 Duane Swierczynski 0785145850 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.25 Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War
author: Duane Swierczynski
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human]]> 844355 160 Mark Millar 0785109609 Reza H. 0 to-read, comedy 4.10 2006 The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human
author: Mark Millar
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, comedy
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]]> <![CDATA[Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon]]> 16002136
Collecting: Hawkeye 1-5, Young Avengers Presents 6]]> 136 Matt Fraction 0785165622 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.15 2013 Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
author: Matt Fraction
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Unlimited (2024-) #1]]> 221002727 Mark Waid Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.28 2024 Justice League Unlimited (2024-) #1
author: Mark Waid
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.28
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]]> Minor Arcana #1 216777328 But when Theresa discovers that there may be more to the magic than she originally believed, she’ll find herself caught up in a town that desperately needs her help�
One of the most renowned creators in comics, New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer and artist Jeff Lemire (Descender, Black Hammer) arrives at BOOM! Studios with an extra-length opening chapter of a must-read ongoing series inspired by, and intricately linked to the tarot and perfect for fans of his creator-owned work as well as Helen of Wyndhorn and Locke & Key.]]> Jeff Lemire Reza H. 0 to-read, comedy 4.13 Minor Arcana #1
author: Jeff Lemire
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.13
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]]> Absolute Batman (2024-) #1 219089634 Scott Snyder Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.56 2024 Absolute Batman (2024-) #1
author: Scott Snyder
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game]]> 1214485
Collects The Boys #1-6]]> 152 Garth Ennis 9133305463 Reza H. 0 to-read 3.92 2007 The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game
author: Garth Ennis
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas]]> 95431 Alternate Cover Edition

One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is a modern American epic of life, death, love and redemption also packed with sex, booze, blood and bullets - not to mention angels, demons, God, vampires and deviants of all stripes.

At first glance, the Reverend Jesse Custer doesn't look like anyone special-just another small-town minister slowly losing his flock and his faith. But he's about to come face-to-face with proof that God does indeed exist. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Jesse now possesses the power of "the Word," an ability to make people do whatever he utters. He begins a violent and riotous journey across the country in search of answers from the elusive deity.

Collects: Preacher #1�7]]> 336 Garth Ennis Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.16 1995 Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas
author: Garth Ennis
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Punisher, Vol. 1: Welcome Back, Frank]]> 664149 288 Garth Ennis 078510982X Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.22 2001 The Punisher, Vol. 1: Welcome Back, Frank
author: Garth Ennis
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> Daredevil, Volume 1 12643015 Amazing Spider-Man) joins neo-legendary artists Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin for a new spin on Daredevil that will leave you gasping for air. Having turned his world upside over the past several years, Matt Murdock realizes that justice may not be blind to his past and villains may not be the only ones looking for answers. Bring it on. if Matt Murdock could see what he was doing ... he'd be terrified.

Collecting: Daredevil 1-6]]> 152 Mark Waid 0785152377 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.19 2012 Daredevil, Volume 1
author: Mark Waid
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Superman: Birthright 8172 320 Mark Waid 1401202527 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.15 2003 Superman: Birthright
author: Mark Waid
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> Kingdom Come 16992 231 Mark Waid 1563893304 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.26 1996 Kingdom Come
author: Mark Waid
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Coming Home]]> 599052 Alone.

Throughout his life, Peter Parker has often felt alone. When he first discovered his spider-like abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider, he kept them secret. His attempts to exploit them for a profit resulted in his Uncle Ben's murder. Later, his attempts at maintaining the secret from his first love, Gwen Stacy, resulted in her death. It seemed as though no one understood the difficult balance between mortal and hero.

Until now, that is.

A mysterious figure appears suddenly, exhibiting similar powers to Peter. He can stick to walls and jump from building to building, just like the wall-crawler. Who is the mystery man? Who are the people he represents? And what is the ancient evil that has arrived in America in search of Peter.

Collects: Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #30-#35

J. Michael Straczynski is a man who has made his mark in many ways, whether in the world of science fiction and television with the hit 'Babylon 5' or in the comic book industry with such books as 'Rising Stars' (2000) and 'Midnight Nation' (2002). Now his unique vision comes to the world of Marvel and the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Joining Straczynski is a man of equal legend�John Romita Jr. Regarded by many as the definitive Spider-Man artist of the last decade, Romita's unique pace and superb storytelling perfectly complement Straczynski's vision.

Edition MSRP: $15⁹⁵ US / $25⁵⁰ CAN (ISBN 0-7851-0806-8)
Printed in Canada]]> 152 J. Michael Straczynski 0785108068 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.26 2001 The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Coming Home
author: J. Michael Straczynski
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2001
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]]> <![CDATA[Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted]]> 31979 Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) present the explosive flagship X-Men series - marking a return to classic greatness and the beginning of a brand-new era for the X-Men! Cyclops and Emma Frost re-form the X-Men with the express purpose of "astonishing" the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their new plans before they even get started?

Collecting: Astonishing X-Men 1-6]]> 144 Joss Whedon 0785115315 Reza H. 0 to-read 4.20 2004 Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted
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]]> <![CDATA[Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event]]> 91714 Whose side... are you on?

The Marvel Universe is changing.

In the wake of a tragedy, Capitol Hill proposes the Super Hero Registration Act, requiring all costumed heroes to unmask themselves before the government. Divided, the nation's greatest champions must each decide how to react—A decision that will alter the course of their lives forever.

It's time to choose and take a side. This conflict has been brewing from more than a year, threatening to pit friend against friend, brother against brother... and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse.

Collecting: Civil War #1-7, written by Mark Millar ('The Ultimates' (2006)) and illustrated by Steve McNiven ('New Avengers' (2006)).

Age Rating: 13�18+ Years Old / Eighth Grade+
Edition MSRP: $24⁹⁹ US / $27⁹⁹ CAN (ISBN 978-0-7851-2179-4)
Printed in the USA]]> 208 Mark Millar 078512179X Reza H. 0 to-read 4.10 2006 Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event
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]]> Marvels 16982
Witness the birth of this fantastic universe from the inside. See the world's greatest heroes in a different light, with a new awe and a touch of fear.

For the first time, experience the Marvel Universe from a whole new perspective � yours. Collects Marvels #1-4 and Marvels #0.]]> 216 Kurt Busiek 0785100490 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.28 1993 Marvels
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Original Sins]]> 9041662 Hellblazer collection Original Sins is available in a new edition that includes John Constantine’s appearances in Swamp Thing. This is the first of a series of new Hellblazer editions starring Vertigo’s longest running antihero, John Constantine, England’s chain-smoking, low-rent magus.This first collection is a loosely connected series of tales of John’s early years where Constantine was at his best and at his worst, all at the same time.

Collecting: Hellblazer 1�9; material from Swamp Thing 76-77]]> 288 Jamie Delano 1401230067 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.04 2011 Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Original Sins
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]]> The Sentry 1121387
On the edge of alcoholism and a failed marriage, Bob Reynolds wakes up to discover his true nature. A forgotten hero, he must unravel the conspiracy to erase his memory from mankind before an evil entity returns.

Contains material originally published in magazine form as Sentry #1-5; Sentry: Fantastic Four, X-men, Spider-man, Hulk; and Sentry vs. The Void.]]> 240 Paul Jenkins 0785121242 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.90 2000 The Sentry
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]]> <![CDATA[Daredevil, Vol. 2: Parts of a Hole]]> 451707 176 David W. Mack 0785108084 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.89 2002 Daredevil, Vol. 2: Parts of a Hole
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[Daredevil Visionaries: Kevin Smith]]> 418107 192 Kevin Smith 0785107371 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.96 1998 Daredevil Visionaries: Kevin Smith
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat: A Graphic Novel]]> 43808 The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned rock star. His gifts are timeless, his youth never withers. But he was not always the powerful and famous child of darkness. Before his long earth-encrusted sleep, he was an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France. It was then that he came face-to-face with the incarnation of evil and the temptations of love that he has ravenously pursued through time. Where it has led him and what he has become is the heart of the tale that has captured millions of readers.]]> 404 Faye Perozich 0345373944 Reza H. 0 to-read, horror 4.22 1991 Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat: A Graphic Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel)]]> 43818 178 Faye Perozich 0970398107 Reza H. 0 to-read, horror 4.13 2000 Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)]]> 43814 481 Anne Rice 0345476883 Reza H. 0 to-read, horror 4.10 1985 The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)]]> 43763
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.

Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.
source: annerice.com]]> 346 Anne Rice 0345476875 Reza H. 0 to-read 4.04 1976 Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)]]> 11901
Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.

On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking... and The Witching Hour begins.

It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.

As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV.An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first "witch," Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher... a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.

From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien—the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers—provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing.And always—through peril and escape, tension and release—there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death.With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax.]]> 1207 Anne Rice 0099471426 Reza H. 0 to-read, horror 4.11 1990 The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire]]> 24603
The introduction to this volume presents each of Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire in chronological order. The introduction, intended for an undergraduate audience, aims to articulate and analyze the major motifs and problems in these essays, and to reveal the relationship between the essays and Benjamin's other central statements on literature, its criticism, and its relation to the society that produces it.]]> 320 Walter Benjamin 0674022874 Reza H. 0 4.23 1969 The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
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]]> On the Concept of History 6838527 24 Walter Benjamin 1448670411 Reza H. 0 4.36 1940 On the Concept of History
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]]> <![CDATA[Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings]]> 190475 348 Walter Benjamin 080520802X Reza H. 0 4.33 1978 Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
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]]> The Arcades Project 52223 The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas."

Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age.

The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.]]> 1088 Walter Benjamin 0674008022 Reza H. 0 4.45 1982 The Arcades Project
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]]> <![CDATA[Illuminations: Essays and Reflections]]> 2725
Also included are his penetrating study on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an illuminating discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his thesis on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and prefaces them with a substantial, admirably informed introduction that presents Benjamin's personality and intellectual development, as well as his work and his life in dark times. Reflections the companion volume to this book, is also available as a Schocken paperback.

Unpacking My Library, 1931
The Task of the Translator, 1913
The Storyteller, 1936
Franz Kafka, 1934
Some Reflections on Kafka, 1938
What Is Epic Theater?, 1939
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire, 1939
The Image of Proust, 1929
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
Theses on the Philosophy of History, written 1940, pub. 1950]]> 278 Walter Benjamin 0805202412 Reza H. 0 4.30 1955 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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]]> <![CDATA[The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media]]> 2474084 Benjamin’s famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in general--in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought.

This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin's explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul.

This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the 'Work of Art' essay the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin's best-known work alongside fascinating, little-known essays--some appearing for the first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin's media theory can be fully appreciated.

]]> 448 Walter Benjamin 0674024451 Reza H. 0 4.10 1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origin of German Tragic Drama]]> 149397
The Origin of German Tragic Drama begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of the royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel . Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer, and the theatre of Shakespeare and Calderon. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history.

The characteristic atmosphere of the Trauerspiel was consequently ‘melancholy�. The emblems of baroque allegory point to the extinct values of a classical world that they can never attain or repeat. Their suggestive power, however, remains to haunt subsequent cultures, down to this century.]]> 256 Walter Benjamin 1859844138 Reza H. 0 4.25 1928 The Origin of German Tragic Drama
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]]> <![CDATA[To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death]]> 30555486 Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body our senses, intelligence, and our lifespans

Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging.

In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement. He travels to the laboratories, conferences, and basements of today's foremost transhumanists, where he's presented with the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries of new technologies like mind uploading, artificial superintelligence, cryonics, and device implants.

A contributor to Slate, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine, O'Connell serves as a sharp and lively guide to the outer limits of technology in the twenty first century. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising, singular meditation on what it means to be human."]]> 256 Mark O'Connell 0385540418 Reza H. 0 3.75 2017 To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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]]> <![CDATA[Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back]]> 52019031 "A fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell proves himself to be a genius guide through all the circles of imagined and anticipated doom." --Jenny Offill

By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense--and coming to grips with the future

We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old postwar alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does it mean to have children--nothing if not an act of hope? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on Earth is anybody doing about it?

Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell is consumed by these questions--and, as the father of two young children himself, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to those places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited--real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he comes to a resolution, while offering readers a unique window into our contemporary imagination.

Both investigative and deeply personal, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting, humorous, and surprisingly hopeful meditation on our present moment. With insight, humanity, and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?]]> 272 Mark O'Connell 038554300X Reza H. 0 3.72 2020 Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
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]]> Capital and Ideology 50849430 The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.

Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.

Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity.

Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power. Capital and Ideology is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it.]]> 1104 Thomas Piketty 0674980824 Reza H. 0 4.27 2019 Capital and Ideology
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]]> A Brief History of Equality 58985601 The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.

It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality.

Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It's a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.]]> 288 Thomas Piketty 0674273559 Reza H. 0 3.96 2021 A Brief History of Equality
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]]> <![CDATA[Capital in the Twenty First Century]]> 18736925 Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.]]> 685 Thomas Piketty 067443000X Reza H. 0 4.04 2013 Capital in the Twenty First Century
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]]> One Good Thing 59910983
In life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can happen to change the course of everything . . .

Liv Brooks is still in shock. Newly-divorced and facing an uncertain future, she impulsively swaps her London Life for the sweeping hills of the Yorkshire Dales, determined to make a fresh start. But fresh starts are harder than they look and feeling lost and lonely she decides to adopt Harry, an old dog from the local shelter, to keep her company.

But Liv soon discovers she isn’t the only one in need of a new beginning. On their daily walks around the village, they meet Valentine, an old man who suffers from loneliness who sits by the window and Stanley, a little boy who is scared of everyone, hides behind the garden gate and Maya, a teenager who is angry at everyone and everything. But slowly things start to change�

Utterly relatable, hilarious and heart-breakingly honest, this is a novel about friendship, finding happiness and living the life unexpected. And how when everything falls apart, all you need is one good thing to turn your life around and make it worth living again.]]> 464 Alexandra Potter Reza H. 0 4.23 One Good Thing
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]]> <![CDATA[Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up]]> 50359667 A funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and why life isn't quite how she imagined it was going to be...

Meet Nell. Her life is a mess.

When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, a sky-high real estate market forces her to rent a room in a stranger’s house, and everyone has seemingly perfect Instagram-ready lives. Starting from scratch she feels like a f**k up . . . a forty-something f**k up.

Landing a job writing obituaries, Nell meets the fabulous Cricket, an 80-something widow with challenges of her own. Together they begin to help each other heal their aching hearts, cope with the loss of the lives they had planned, and push each other into new adventures and joy. With Cricket’s help, Nell is determined to turn her life around. First, though, she has a confession . . .

Laugh-out-loud funny and painfully relatable, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up is a celebration of friendship and a reminder that while life doesn’t always go according to plan, it doesn’t mean you can’t find happiness.]]> 400 Alexandra Potter 1529022819 Reza H. 0 4.05 2020 Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
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]]> <![CDATA[Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)]]> 221786526
Słońce rozjaśni się w nocy, a księżyc w ciągu dnia, gwiazdy zaś zaczną spadać. Krew będzie ciec z drzewa, a kamień wyda głos.

Dzikie bestie będą atakować, a niewiasty brzemienne będą rodzić potwory.

I oto sprawdziło się proroctwo i oczom naszym stało się ono widome: niewiasty porodziły potwory.

Wiedźmini są tymi potworami, heroldami chaosu i zguby.

� Anonim, Monstrum albo wiedźmina opisanie]]> 292 Andrzej Sapkowski 8375782076 Reza H. 0 to-read, science-fiction 4.03 2024 Rozdroże kruków (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.1)
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]]> Le Plongeon 56617552
Le changement est rude pour cette femme indépendante, d'autant qu'elle a encore toute sa tête. Elle a du mal à s'acclimater à cette nouvelle vie, qui la rapproche douloureusement de la mort.

Prise dans le tourbillon inéluctable de la vie, l'octogénaire décidé de s'offrir une dernière parenthèse enchantée.]]> 80 Séverine Vidal 2818978998 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.41 2021 Le Plongeon
author: Séverine Vidal
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[La Magicienne trahie (Thorgal, #1)]]> 1351644 48 Grzegorz Rosiński 2803603586 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 3.93 1980 La Magicienne trahie (Thorgal, #1)
author: Grzegorz Rosiński
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Los días del venado (La saga de los confines, #1)]]> 2141384 322 Liliana Bodoc 9879334906 Reza H. 0 3.95 1999 Los días del venado (La saga de los confines, #1)
author: Liliana Bodoc
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> Operación Masacre 1207644
"Operación Masacre", una de las primeras novelas de "no ficción" escritas en castellano, se anticipó en nueve años al New Journalism, es decir, la aplicación de procedimientos propios del género novela al relato de hechos verdaderos.]]> 213 Rodolfo Walsh 950515352X Reza H. 0 4.26 1957 Operación Masacre
author: Rodolfo Walsh
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> The Eternaut 35100322 369 Héctor Germán Oesterheld Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.29 1957 The Eternaut
author: Héctor Germán Oesterheld
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Adieu Aaricia (Thorgal Saga, #1)]]> 97454914 112 Robin Recht 2808211740 Reza H. 0 to-read, comics 4.06 2023 Adieu Aaricia (Thorgal Saga, #1)
author: Robin Recht
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[14 Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray]]> 20876541
A rich zamindar dreams that his daughter-in-law is an incarnation of goddess Kali; a housewife steps out of her lower middle-class household into the big city to work as a salesgirl; Goopy and Bagha fight the evil plans of the king of Shundi to rescue the kingdom of Halla; a group of friends runs into a self-proclaimed sage who claims to have been friends with Plato, Jesus and Buddha. Nobles at the court of Awadh, the chess-addicts Mir and Mirza, move to an undisclosed location to play undisturbed as their kingdom falls around them..

Shorts stories were the inspiration for fourteen of master filmmaker Satyajit Ray's movies, every one of them a classic - Devi, Jalsaghar and Shatranj Ke Khiladi, among them. This book brings together all of those stories in one volume. These tales, by the likes of Rabindranath Tagore, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu and Premchand, are milestones in Indian literature quite apart from their cinematic glory. The anthology also contains two stories by Ray himself -Atithi and Pikoor Diary, that illustrate his own craft as a writer. From the dramatic to the starkly real, the humorous to the dark, the lyrical to the prosaic, Fourteen Stories... sparkles with narrative brilliance. Read together, these stories also provide us with the context for a new insight into the mind of one of India's most loved and revered filmmakers.]]> 224 Bhaskar Chattopadhyay 9351361934 Reza H. 0 4.24 2014 14 Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray
author: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2014
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]]> The Tesseract 243257 273 Alex Garland 1573221090 Reza H. 0 3.24 The Tesseract
author: Alex Garland
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average rating: 3.24
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shelves: to-read, contemporary-fiction, mystery-thriller, crime-fiction
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]]> High-Rise 12331767 208 J.G. Ballard 0871404028 Reza H. 0 3.61 1975 High-Rise
author: J.G. Ballard
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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]]> Crash 70241 Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.]]> 224 J.G. Ballard 0312420331 Reza H. 0 3.62 1973 Crash
author: J.G. Ballard
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[28 Days Later (Faber and Faber Screenplays)]]> 8760 96 Alex Garland 0571216536 Reza H. 0 4.12 2003 28 Days Later (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
author: Alex Garland
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> The Coma 106373 192 Alex Garland 0571223109 Reza H. 0 3.40 2004 The Coma
author: Alex Garland
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> Sightseeing 212246
Sightseeing is a masterful new work of fiction, a collection of stories set in contemporary Thailand and written with a grace and sophistication that belie the age of its young author. These are generous, tender tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Rattawut Lapcharoensap offers a diverse, humorous, and deeply affectionate view of life in a small Southeast Asian country that is inevitably absorbing the waves of encroaching Westernization.

In the prizewinning opening story, "Farangs," the young son of a modest beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty tourist, and the confrontation that ensues between the native boy and the girl's pompous American boyfriend culminates wondrously amid flying mangoes and Clint Eastwood—a pet pig—swimming out to sea. In "Sightseeing," the much-anticipated holiday of a young man about to leave for college and his loving and fiercely independent mother becomes a different kind of pilgrimage altogether when they are forced to confront the mother's impending blindness. The concluding novella, "Cockfighter," is a triumph of storytelling in which a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy and drawn-out battle against the local delinquent and violent hoodlum whose family's vicious stranglehold on the villagers has passed down unchecked through generations.

Through his vivid assemblage of parents and children, natives and transients, ardent lovers and sworn enemies, Lapcharoensap dares us to look with new eyes at the circumstances that shape our views and the prejudices that form our blind spots. Gorgeous and lush, painful and candid, Sightseeing is an extraordinary reading experience, one that powerfully reveals that when it comes to how we respond to pain, anger, hurt, and love, no place is too far from home.]]> 250 Rattawut Lapcharoensap 0802142346 Reza H. 0 3.94 2004 Sightseeing
author: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> The Rum Diary 18864 The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible.]]> 224 Hunter S. Thompson 0684856476 Reza H. 0 to-read, classic-fiction 3.86 1998 The Rum Diary
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> The Beach 607639
The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveller slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."

The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travellers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumoured, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.

Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck -- the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man -- and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents.

Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach by Alex Garland -- both a national bestseller and his debut -- is a highly accomplished and suspenseful novel that fixates on a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world first hand.]]> 436 Alex Garland 1573226521 Reza H. 0 to-read, mystery-thriller 3.97 1996 The Beach
author: Alex Garland
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)]]> 17934530 Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.]]> 195 Jeff VanderMeer 0374104093 Reza H. 0 3.79 2014 Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
author: Jeff VanderMeer
name: Reza H.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic]]> 91017
From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.]]> 408 Tom Holland 1400078970 Reza H. 0 to-read, history, non-fiction 4.22 2003 Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
author: Tom Holland
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire]]> 10767816
The story of Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire's collapse remains virtually untold. It is a tale of loss that begins with the greatest loss of all, the death of the Macedonian king who had held the empire together.

With his demise, it was as if the sun had disappeared from the solar system, as if planets and moons began to spin crazily in new directions, crashing into one another with unimaginable force.

Alexander bequeathed his power, legend has it, 'to the strongest,' leaving behind a mentally damaged half brother and a posthumously born son as his only heirs. In a strange compromise, both figures, Philip III and Alexander IV, were elevated to the kingship, quickly becoming prizes, pawns, fought over by a half-dozen Macedonian generals. Each successor could confer legitimacy on whichever general controlled him.

At the book's center is the monarch's most vigorous defender; Alexander's former Greek secretary, now transformed into a general himself. He was a man both fascinating and entertaining, a man full of tricks and connivances, like the enthroned ghost of Alexander that gives the book its title, and becomes the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family.

James Romm, brilliant classicist and storyteller, tells the galvanizing saga of the men who followed Alexander and found themselves incapable of preserving his empire. The result was the undoing of a world, formerly united in a single empire, now ripped apart into a nightmare of warring nation-states struggling for domination, the template of our own times.]]> 341 James Romm 0307271641 Reza H. 0 to-read, history, non-fiction 4.28 2011 Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
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name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower]]> 5599860 A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In his account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower’s decline. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations.

This was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers. It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. Goldsworthy pays particular attention to the willingness of Roman soldiers to fight and kill each other. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.]]> 531 Adrian Goldsworthy 0300137192 Reza H. 0 to-read, non-fiction, history 3.99 2009 How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
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average rating: 3.99
book published: 2009
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]]> <![CDATA[Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King]]> 204640542
For Dan Jones, Henry V is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened, sometimes brutal warrior, yet he was also creative and artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family, but he always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions, and secured England’s borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses.

Henry V is a historical titan whose legacy has become a complicated one. To understand the man behind the legend, Jones first examines Henry’s years of apprenticeship, when he saw the downfall of one king and the turbulent reign of another. Upon his accession in 1413, he had already been politically and militarily active for years, and his extraordinary achievements as king would come shortly after, earning him an unparalleled historical reputation. Writing with his characteristic wit and style, Jones delivers a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king.]]> 432 Dan Jones 0593652738 Reza H. 0 to-read, non-fiction, history 4.40 2024 Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
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name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World]]> 128747007
Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, such as the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? She tracks down the emperor at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. She introduces his wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers―and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hands.

Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before. 160 images; 16-page color insert]]> 493 Mary Beard 0871404222 Reza H. 0 to-read, non-fiction, history 4.07 2023 Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
author: Mary Beard
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age]]> 62712920 Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with Rubicon, and continued with Dynasty, now arrives at the period which marks the apogée of the pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at war and at peace; from the gilded capital to the barbarous realms beyond the frontier; from emperors to slaves. The narrative features many of the most celebrated episodes in Roman history: the destruction of Jerusalem and Pompeii; the building of the Colosseum and Hadrian's Wall; the conquests of Trajan and the spread of Christianity. Pax gives a portrait of Rome, the great white shark of the ancient world, the Siberian tiger, at the very pinnacle of her greatness.]]> 400 Tom Holland 1408706989 Reza H. 0 to-read, non-fiction, history 4.17 2023 Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> The Compound Effect 13238604 The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default.

Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.]]> 200 Darren Hardy Reza H. 0 4.29 2010 The Compound Effect
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name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment]]> 34673467
Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to renegotiate his country’s relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe’s political, financial and media elite. But the true story of what happened is almost entirely unknown � not least because so much of the EU’s real business takes place behind closed doors.

In this fearless account, Varoufakis reveals all: an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion and betrayal that will shake the deep establishment to its foundations.

As is now clear, the same policies that required the tragic and brutal suppression of Greece’s democratic uprising have led directly to authoritarianism, populist revolt and instability throughout the Western world.

'Adults In The Room' is an urgent wake-up call to renew European democracy before it is too late.]]> 561 Yanis Varoufakis Reza H. 0 4.31 2017 Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
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name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails]]> 36490332 In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important—and difficult—audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter’s generation stands to inherit.

Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age—and through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.]]> 224 Yanis Varoufakis 0374718431 Reza H. 0 4.19 2013 Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
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name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 1)]]> 43666740 Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers� and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries!

One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When showing our characters� feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up smiling, nodding, and frowning too much.

If you need inspiration for creating characters� emotional responses that are personalized and evocative, this ultimate show-don’t-tell guide for emotion can help. It includes:

� Body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for 130 emotions that cover a range of intensity from mild to severe, providing innumerable options for individualizing a character’s reactions
� A breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them
� Advice on what should be done beforedrafting to make sure your characters� emotions will be realistic and consistent
� Instruction for how to show hidden feelings and emotional subtext through dialogue and nonverbal cues
� And much more!

The Emotion Thesaurus, in its easy-to-navigate list format, will inspire you to create stronger, fresher character expressions and engage readers from your first page to your last.]]> 308 Angela Ackerman 0999296353 Reza H. 0 to-read, writing, non-fiction 4.64 2012 The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression, Second Edition (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 1)
author: Angela Ackerman
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.64
book published: 2012
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]]> Stein on Writing 186004 A master editor of some of the most successful writers of our century shares his craft techniques and strategies

Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place." With examples from bestsellers as well as from students' drafts, Stein offers detailed sections on characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, trimming away flabby wording, the so-called "triage" method of revision, using the techniques of fiction to enliven nonfiction, and more.]]> 320 Sol Stein 0312254210 Reza H. 0 to-read, non-fiction, writing 4.27 1995 Stein on Writing
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name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface]]> 28915986
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you.

That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. Topics covered

 • emotional modes of writing
 • beyond showing versus telling
 • your story's emotional world
 • moral stakes
 • connecting the inner and outer journeys
 • plot as emotional opportunities
 • invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language
 • cascading change
 • story as emotional mirror
 • positive spirit and magnanimous writing
 • the hidden current that makes stories move
Readers can simply read a novel...or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.]]> 224 Donald Maass 1440348375 Reza H. 0 to-read, writing, non-fiction 4.24 2016 The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
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]]> <![CDATA[The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase]]> 17415726 The idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon.

In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style.

From classic poetry to pop lyrics and from the King James Bible to advertising slogans, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase - such as ‘Tiger, tiger, burning bright� or ‘To be or not to be� - memorable.

In his inimitably entertaining and witty style he takes apart famous lines and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or Oscar Wilde. Whether you’re aiming for literary immortality or just an unforgettable one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don't need to have anything to say - you simply need to say it well.]]> 205 Mark Forsyth 1848316216 Reza H. 0 to-read, writing 4.35 2013 The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language]]> 12870068 252 Mark Forsyth Reza H. 0 4.25 2011 The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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]]> The Elements of Style 33514 105 William Strunk Jr. Reza H. 0 4.15 1918 The Elements of Style
author: William Strunk Jr.
name: Reza H.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1918
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft]]> 10569 (back cover)]]> 320 Stephen King 0743455967 Reza H. 0 4.33 2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print]]> 180467
Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories.

In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition, point of view, interior monologue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an expert editor would go through to perfect your manuscript. Each point is illustrated with examples, many drawn from the hundreds of books Browne and King have edited.]]> 288 Renni Browne 0060545690 Reza H. 0 4.24 1993 Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
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]]> <![CDATA[At Home: A Short History of Private Life]]> 7507825
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.� The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
(front flap)]]> 497 Bill Bryson 0767919386 Reza H. 0 to-read, history, non-fiction 3.98 2010 At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body: A Guide for Occupants]]> 43582376 A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.]]> 450 Bill Bryson 0385539304 Reza H. 0 4.30 2019 The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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]]> Notes from a Small Island 28 "Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."

After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. ("I had recently read," Bryson writes, "that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me.") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.

Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.]]> 324 Bill Bryson 0380727501 Reza H. 0 3.93 1995 Notes from a Small Island
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]]> In a Sunburned Country 24
Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extroverted, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this...]]> 335 Bill Bryson 0767903862 Reza H. 0 4.06 2000 In a Sunburned Country
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]]> <![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]> 21 544 Bill Bryson 076790818X Reza H. 0 4.21 2003 A Short History of Nearly Everything
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]]> The Poetry of Robert Frost 95819 The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously annotated the 350-plus poems in this collection, which has been the standard edition of Frost's work since it first appeared in 1969.
]]> 607 Robert Frost 0805005013 Reza H. 0 4.24 1969 The Poetry of Robert Frost
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