Thế kỷ 20

Thế kỷ 20 đầy biến động đã sinh ra những tư tưởng cách mạng và các phong trào nghệ thuật cấp tiến, mãi mãi thay đổi cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và xã hội. Giữa hai cuộc chiến tranh thế giới và những biến động xã hội, các nhà văn đã vật lộn với chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, dòng ý thức và bóng tối ngày càng lan rộng của chủ nghĩa toàn trị qua những tác phẩm đột phá định hình nền văn học hiện đại.

Thế kỷ 20 Tóm tắt sách

Hellhound on His Trail

của Hampton Sides • 2010

The prison break. The Memphis balcony. The 65-day international manhunt that followed one bullet.

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🏛️ Civil Rights History 🎯 Political Assassinations 🔍 Manhunt Narratives 🕵️ Fbi Investigations 📖 True Crime History

Hellhound on His Trail

The prison break. The Memphis balcony. The 65-day international manhunt that followed one bullet.

của Hampton Sides 2010 397 trang

4.35

14.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Civil Rights History 🎯 Political Assassinations 🔍 Manhunt Narratives 🕵️ Fbi Investigations 📖 True Crime History

Prohibido suicidarse en primavera

của Alejandro Casona • 1937

A sanatorium prescribes beautiful deaths to the hopeless, then two lovers on vacation wander in.

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4.000+

🎭 Tragicomedy 😈 Dark Comedy 🍂 Bittersweet ⚔️ Brothers In Conflict 🌿 Healing Through Nature

Prohibido suicidarse en primavera

A sanatorium prescribes beautiful deaths to the hopeless, then two lovers on vacation wander in.

của Alejandro Casona 1937 86 trang

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4.000+ đánh giá

🎭 Tragicomedy 😈 Dark Comedy 🍂 Bittersweet ⚔️ Brothers In Conflict 🌿 Healing Through Nature

La portalettere

của Francesca Giannone • 2023

A northern woman in 1930s southern Italy scandalizes her village by becoming its first postwoman.

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🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🌞 Southern Italy 💔 Forbidden Love 👶 Secret Child 🧳 Outsider In Small Town

La portalettere

A northern woman in 1930s southern Italy scandalizes her village by becoming its first postwoman.

của Francesca Giannone 2023 411 trang

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🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🌞 Southern Italy 💔 Forbidden Love 👶 Secret Child 🧳 Outsider In Small Town

Corelli’s Mandolin

của Louis de Bernières • 1995

Pelagia's love for an Italian captain survives war, massacre, and decades of separation.

4.04

93.000+

❤️ Enemies To Lovers 🎖️ Wartime Romance 🏝️ Greek Island Setting ⏳ Love Across Decades 🏡 Found Family

Corelli’s Mandolin

Pelagia's love for an Italian captain survives war, massacre, and decades of separation.

của Louis de Bernières 1995 437 trang

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93.000+ đánh giá

❤️ Enemies To Lovers 🎖️ Wartime Romance 🏝️ Greek Island Setting ⏳ Love Across Decades 🏡 Found Family

Las herederas de la Singer

của Ana Lena Rivera • 2022

A bloodstained Singer holds a murder secret binding four generations of women in Spain's mining town

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4.000+

👪 Family Saga 🧬 Generational Trauma 🧩 Family Secrets 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🤝 Female Solidarity

Las herederas de la Singer

A bloodstained Singer holds a murder secret binding four generations of women in Spain's mining town

của Ana Lena Rivera 2022 512 trang

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4.000+ đánh giá

👪 Family Saga 🧬 Generational Trauma 🧩 Family Secrets 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🤝 Female Solidarity

A View Across the Rooftops

của Suzanne Kelman • 2019

A grieving professor hides a Jewish student in his attic, risking all under Nazi occupation.

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🪖 Nazi Occupation 🏠 Hiding Jewish Refugees 🎓 Unlikely Rescuer 💔 Love In Wartime 👨‍👦 Found Family

A View Across the Rooftops

A grieving professor hides a Jewish student in his attic, risking all under Nazi occupation.

của Suzanne Kelman 2019 398 trang

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11.000+ đánh giá

🪖 Nazi Occupation 🏠 Hiding Jewish Refugees 🎓 Unlikely Rescuer 💔 Love In Wartime 👨‍👦 Found Family

The Coming of the Third Reich

của Richard J. Evans • 2003

From Bismarck's Reich to Weimar's collapse: the avoidable failures that gave Nazis Germany.

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🏛️ Weimar Republic ⚠️ Nazi Rise To Power 📉 Democratic Collapse 🧬 Racial Ideology ✡️ Antisemitism History

The Coming of the Third Reich

From Bismarck's Reich to Weimar's collapse: the avoidable failures that gave Nazis Germany.

của Richard J. Evans 2003 622 trang

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12.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Weimar Republic ⚠️ Nazi Rise To Power 📉 Democratic Collapse 🧬 Racial Ideology ✡️ Antisemitism History

How the South Won the Civil War

của Heather Cox Richardson • 2020

Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.

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🇺🇸 American Political History 🏛️ Oligarchy Studies 🐎 Frontier Mythology ⛓️ Racial Hierarchy 🗳️ Voter Suppression

How the South Won the Civil War

Southern oligarchy lost the war but won the West, rebranding as cowboy individualism.

của Heather Cox Richardson 2020 272 trang

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🇺🇸 American Political History 🏛️ Oligarchy Studies 🐎 Frontier Mythology ⛓️ Racial Hierarchy 🗳️ Voter Suppression

War Against the Weak

của Edwin Black • 2003

Carnegie and Rockefeller funded America's eugenics; Hitler learned from it and built the Holocaust.

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🧬 Eugenics History 🧪 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Forced Sterilization 💰 Philanthropy Critique 📜 Immigration Policy

War Against the Weak

Carnegie and Rockefeller funded America's eugenics; Hitler learned from it and built the Holocaust.

của Edwin Black 2003 592 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🧬 Eugenics History 🧪 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Forced Sterilization 💰 Philanthropy Critique 📜 Immigration Policy

Typical American

của Gish Jen • 1991

An immigrant family stakes its future on a con man's fried chicken empire.

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1.000+

🧧 Immigrant Family Saga 🥀 Broken American Dream 🃏 Charismatic Con Man 💔 Marital Infidelity 🎭 Ironic Tragicomedy

Typical American

An immigrant family stakes its future on a con man's fried chicken empire.

của Gish Jen 1991 304 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🧧 Immigrant Family Saga 🥀 Broken American Dream 🃏 Charismatic Con Man 💔 Marital Infidelity 🎭 Ironic Tragicomedy

The Samurai's Garden[SAMURAIS GARDEN][Paperback]

của GailTsukiyama • 1996

A Chinese painter, exiled to a Japanese coast with TB, finds healing in a stranger's garden.

3.93

🏞️ Rural Japan 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Wartime Romance 🩺 Illness And Recovery 🏘️ Leprosy Community

The Samurai's Garden[SAMURAIS GARDEN][Paperback]

A Chinese painter, exiled to a Japanese coast with TB, finds healing in a stranger's garden.

của GailTsukiyama 1996

3.93

15 đánh giá

🏞️ Rural Japan 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Wartime Romance 🩺 Illness And Recovery 🏘️ Leprosy Community

Che Guevara Reader

của Ernesto Che Guevara • 1997

Winning the war is step one. Che Guevara's collected writings on what revolutions do after victory.

4.08

359

🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Anti-Imperialism 📕 Marxism Leninism 🌾 Agrarian Reform

Che Guevara Reader

Winning the war is step one. Che Guevara's collected writings on what revolutions do after victory.

của Ernesto Che Guevara 1997 420 trang

4.08

359 đánh giá

🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution 🪖 Guerrilla Warfare 🌍 Anti-Imperialism 📕 Marxism Leninism 🌾 Agrarian Reform

1916

của Morgan Llywelyn • 1998

Haunted by the Titanic, a young Irishman comes home to join a poet's doomed rebellion.

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4.000+

🔥 Easter Rising 🪖 Wartime Coming Of Age 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🧑‍🏫 Mentor And ProtéGé ⚔️ Tragic Heroism

1916

Haunted by the Titanic, a young Irishman comes home to join a poet's doomed rebellion.

của Morgan Llywelyn 1998 576 trang

4.08

4.000+ đánh giá

🔥 Easter Rising 🪖 Wartime Coming Of Age 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🧑‍🏫 Mentor And ProtéGé ⚔️ Tragic Heroism

Dark Tide

của Stephen Puleo • 2003

A 25-foot wave of molasses killed 21 people because one company ignored every warning sign.

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🏭 Industrial Disasters ⚙️ Engineering Failures 💼 Corporate Negligence ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🌊 Disaster Narratives

Dark Tide

A 25-foot wave of molasses killed 21 people because one company ignored every warning sign.

của Stephen Puleo 2003 273 trang

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5.000+ đánh giá

🏭 Industrial Disasters ⚙️ Engineering Failures 💼 Corporate Negligence ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🌊 Disaster Narratives

The Imagineers of War

của Sharon Weinberger • 2017

DARPA gave us the Internet and lost Vietnam. The same faith in technology drove both.

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🛰️ Cold War Science 🔬 Defense Research 🏛️ Institutional History 🌍 Counterinsurgency 🛸 Drone Warfare

The Imagineers of War

DARPA gave us the Internet and lost Vietnam. The same faith in technology drove both.

của Sharon Weinberger 2017 496 trang

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500+ đánh giá

🛰️ Cold War Science 🔬 Defense Research 🏛️ Institutional History 🌍 Counterinsurgency 🛸 Drone Warfare

Science of Coercion

của Christopher Simpson • 1994

Communication studies was secretly built by the Pentagon as a weapon, not a discipline.

4.11

📜 Cold War History 📢 Propaganda Studies 🕵️ Covert Operations 🎓 Military-Academic Complex ⚖️ Research Ethics

Science of Coercion

Communication studies was secretly built by the Pentagon as a weapon, not a discipline.

của Christopher Simpson 1994 224 trang

4.11

89 đánh giá

📜 Cold War History 📢 Propaganda Studies 🕵️ Covert Operations 🎓 Military-Academic Complex ⚖️ Research Ethics

The Forgotten Locket

của Kathryn Hughes • 2019

Summoned to a London vault, a woman finds a monk's letter: her mother, lost forty years, may live.

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🕰️ Dual Timeline Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother 🧠 Amnesia Story 🩹 Generational Trauma

The Forgotten Locket

Summoned to a London vault, a woman finds a monk's letter: her mother, lost forty years, may live.

của Kathryn Hughes 2019 395 trang

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9.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Dual Timeline Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother 🧠 Amnesia Story 🩹 Generational Trauma

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

của Mark Dillon • 2012

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

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128

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation 🌊 California Sound ⚡ Band Dynamics

Fifty Sides of the Beach Boys

Fifty songs that built and nearly destroyed a California garage band turned icon.

của Mark Dillon 2012 336 trang

3.92

128 đánh giá

🎵 Song By Song Biography 🎸 1960s Rock 🎛️ Studio Innovation 🌊 California Sound ⚡ Band Dynamics

The Sheik by E. M. Hull

của Edith Maude Hull • 1919

A headstrong English heiress is captured by a desert sheik; his demand is total surrender.

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🏜️ Desert Romance 🔒 Captive Romance 💔 Enemies To Lovers 👑 Alpha Hero 🖤 Dark Romance

The Sheik by E. M. Hull

A headstrong English heiress is captured by a desert sheik; his demand is total surrender.

của Edith Maude Hull 1919

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1.000+ đánh giá

🏜️ Desert Romance 🔒 Captive Romance 💔 Enemies To Lovers 👑 Alpha Hero 🖤 Dark Romance

Hazards of Time Travel

của Joyce Carol Oates • 2018

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State 💔 Forbidden Love 🌧️ Melancholy Tone

Hazards of Time Travel

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

của Joyce Carol Oates 2018 336 trang

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State 💔 Forbidden Love 🌧️ Melancholy Tone

Magellan

của Stefan Zweig • 1938

The man who first circled the globe died in a pointless skirmish halfway through the voyage.

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🗺️ Age Of Exploration ⚓ Maritime History 🌍 Circumnavigation ⚔️ Mutiny And Leadership 🌶️ Spice Trade

Magellan

The man who first circled the globe died in a pointless skirmish halfway through the voyage.

của Stefan Zweig 1938 280 trang

4.42

6.000+ đánh giá

🗺️ Age Of Exploration ⚓ Maritime History 🌍 Circumnavigation ⚔️ Mutiny And Leadership 🌶️ Spice Trade

Finks

của Joel Whitney • 2017

How the CIA turned literary magazines, Nobel winners, and bestsellers into Cold War weapons.

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166

📚 Literary Cold War 📢 Covert Propaganda 📖 Weaponized Literature 🏛️ American Empire 💥 Blowback

Finks

How the CIA turned literary magazines, Nobel winners, and bestsellers into Cold War weapons.

của Joel Whitney 2017 348 trang

3.96

166 đánh giá

📚 Literary Cold War 📢 Covert Propaganda 📖 Weaponized Literature 🏛️ American Empire 💥 Blowback

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

của C. Vann Woodward • 1955

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

4.14

3.000+

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

của C. Vann Woodward 1955 245 trang

4.14

3.000+ đánh giá

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1

của Allan H. Meltzer • 2003

The Federal Reserve's founding doctrines caused the Great Depression and the 1937 recession.

4.04

🏦 Federal Reserve History 💰 Monetary Policy 📉 Great Depression 🥇 Gold Standard 📚 Institutional History

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1

The Federal Reserve's founding doctrines caused the Great Depression and the 1937 recession.

của Allan H. Meltzer 2003 808 trang

4.04

53 đánh giá

🏦 Federal Reserve History 💰 Monetary Policy 📉 Great Depression 🥇 Gold Standard 📚 Institutional History

I the Supreme

của Augusto Roa Bastos • 1974

A lampoon on the cathedral door hurls an aging dictator into combat with his own double.

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🏛️ Dictatorship Fiction 👁️ Paranoid Ruler 📜 Language And Power 📚 Textual Labyrinth 🪶 History As Text

I the Supreme

A lampoon on the cathedral door hurls an aging dictator into combat with his own double.

của Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 433 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Dictatorship Fiction 👁️ Paranoid Ruler 📜 Language And Power 📚 Textual Labyrinth 🪶 History As Text

There Will Be Fire

của Rory Carroll • 2023

Two minutes kept Thatcher alive. The Brighton bomber vanished, a ghost named Roy Walsh.

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4.000+

💣 The Troubles 🔍 Forensic Investigation 🛡️ Counterterrorism 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Anglo-Irish Relations 💥 Political Violence

There Will Be Fire

Two minutes kept Thatcher alive. The Brighton bomber vanished, a ghost named Roy Walsh.

của Rory Carroll 2023 397 trang

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4.000+ đánh giá

💣 The Troubles 🔍 Forensic Investigation 🛡️ Counterterrorism 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Anglo-Irish Relations 💥 Political Violence

The Big Myth

của Naomi Oreskes • 2023

Free market worship was never ancient wisdom. It was a business propaganda campaign.

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📉 Economic Myths 🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📢 Propaganda History 🌪️ Deregulation Disasters ⛓️‍💥 Free Market Critique

The Big Myth

Free market worship was never ancient wisdom. It was a business propaganda campaign.

của Naomi Oreskes 2023 576 trang

4.36

500+ đánh giá

📉 Economic Myths 🏢 Corporate Lobbying 📢 Propaganda History 🌪️ Deregulation Disasters ⛓️‍💥 Free Market Critique

The Second Mrs. Astor

của Shana Abe • 2021

A teenager marries America's richest man, and a scandalized society drives them onto the Titanic.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 💐 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Doomed Love 🌊 Survivor's Guilt 🕰️ Edwardian

The Second Mrs. Astor

A teenager marries America's richest man, and a scandalized society drives them onto the Titanic.

của Shana Abe 2021 323 trang

3.96

74.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Gilded Age 💐 Age Gap Romance 🖤 Doomed Love 🌊 Survivor's Guilt 🕰️ Edwardian

Mumlar Sonuna Kadar Yanar

của Sándor Márai • 1942

Two men, one dinner, and the memory of a gun raised forty-one years ago.

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🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🇭🇺 Hungarian Literature 💔 Friendship Betrayed 🔥 Long-Buried Secrets 🔺 Love Triangle

Mumlar Sonuna Kadar Yanar

Two men, one dinner, and the memory of a gun raised forty-one years ago.

của Sándor Márai 1942 120 trang

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45.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🇭🇺 Hungarian Literature 💔 Friendship Betrayed 🔥 Long-Buried Secrets 🔺 Love Triangle

The Summer Garden

của Paullina Simons • 2005

After the war, a couple's new life in America becomes a battlefield of memory and silence.

4.09

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🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🏗️ Post-War Rebuilding 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🪖 Survivor's Guilt ⏳ Love Across Decades

The Summer Garden

After the war, a couple's new life in America becomes a battlefield of memory and silence.

của Paullina Simons 2005 742 trang

4.09

34.000+ đánh giá

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🏗️ Post-War Rebuilding 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🪖 Survivor's Guilt ⏳ Love Across Decades

của Thomas Pynchon • 1963

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

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🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism 🌍 Colonial Africa 🗽 Bohemian New York

One man chases a woman who keeps appearing across history, each time less human than before.

của Thomas Pynchon 1963 640 trang

3.97

25.000+ đánh giá

🔍 Conspiracy Quest 🎭 Identity As Performance 🧿 Object Fetishism 🌍 Colonial Africa 🗽 Bohemian New York

American Crucible

của Gary Gerstle • 2001

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

3.82

246

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

American Crucible

Equal rights versus white identity: how America's two nationalisms have warred for a century.

của Gary Gerstle 2001 472 trang

3.82

246 đánh giá

🏛️ American Nationalism 📅 20th Century America ⚖️ Civic Nationalism 🧬 Racial Nationalism 🚪 Immigration Restriction

Tutte le poesie

của Eugenio Montale • 1984

A Nobel poet's map of the world: lemon trees, cuttlefish bones, and a single flawed link.

4.63

500+

🎭 Italian Poetry 🎭 Modernist Poetry 🎭 Existential Despair 🎭 Memory And Loss 🎭 Nature Symbolism

Tutte le poesie

A Nobel poet's map of the world: lemon trees, cuttlefish bones, and a single flawed link.

của Eugenio Montale 1984 1192 trang

4.63

500+ đánh giá

🎭 Italian Poetry 🎭 Modernist Poetry 🎭 Existential Despair 🎭 Memory And Loss 🎭 Nature Symbolism

The Air You Breathe

của Frances de Pontes Peebles • 2018

A servant and a planter's daughter chase samba, stardom, and a bond that will undo them.

3.88

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🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 👤 Invisible Creator 🌈 Queer Longing 🫂 Found Family

The Air You Breathe

A servant and a planter's daughter chase samba, stardom, and a bond that will undo them.

của Frances de Pontes Peebles 2018 528 trang

3.88

9.000+ đánh giá

🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Historical 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 👤 Invisible Creator 🌈 Queer Longing 🫂 Found Family

The Black Book of Communism

của Stéphane Courtois • 1997

Eighty-five to one hundred million dead, and the ideology that demanded every killing.

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🏴 Totalitarianism ⚫ State Terror 🔨 Communist Regimes ⛓️ Forced Labor Systems ⚖️ Crimes Against Humanity

The Black Book of Communism

Eighty-five to one hundred million dead, and the ideology that demanded every killing.

của Stéphane Courtois 1997 858 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🏴 Totalitarianism ⚫ State Terror 🔨 Communist Regimes ⛓️ Forced Labor Systems ⚖️ Crimes Against Humanity

The Nazi Doctors

của Robert Jay Lifton • 1986

Nazi doctors killed to heal the race. A psychologist reveals the mechanism that enabled it.

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3.000+

🕯️ Holocaust Studies 🧠 Perpetrator Psychology 📋 Medical Ethics ⚖️ Moral Disengagement 🏭 Institutional Evil

The Nazi Doctors

Nazi doctors killed to heal the race. A psychologist reveals the mechanism that enabled it.

của Robert Jay Lifton 1986 561 trang

4.12

3.000+ đánh giá

🕯️ Holocaust Studies 🧠 Perpetrator Psychology 📋 Medical Ethics ⚖️ Moral Disengagement 🏭 Institutional Evil

The Natural

của Bernard Malamud • 1952

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

3.61

12.000+

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale 🎭 Tragic Hero 💪 Sports Comeback

The Natural

A baseball prodigy returns at 34, but a cold woman and a bookie's fix threaten his last shot.

của Bernard Malamud 1952 231 trang

3.61

12.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Literary Baseball 🦅 American Myth 💋 Femme Fatale 🎭 Tragic Hero 💪 Sports Comeback

Blowback

của Chalmers Johnson • 2000

Covert empire: why policies hidden from the American public keep producing violent retaliation.

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2.000+

🏛️ Foreign Policy 🇺🇸 American Empire 🕵️ Covert Operations 📉 Imperial Overreach 💰 Economic Hegemony

Blowback

Covert empire: why policies hidden from the American public keep producing violent retaliation.

của Chalmers Johnson 2000 268 trang

4.06

2.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Foreign Policy 🇺🇸 American Empire 🕵️ Covert Operations 📉 Imperial Overreach 💰 Economic Hegemony

Spectacle

của Pamela Newkirk • 2015

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

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🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities 🇧🇪 Belgian Congo 📜 Historical Erasure

Spectacle

1906: the Bronx Zoo caged a Congolese man in the monkey house. Thousands paid to stare.

của Pamela Newkirk 2015 336 trang

3.63

500+ đánh giá

🦍 Human Zoos 🔬 Scientific Racism 💀 Colonial Atrocities 🇧🇪 Belgian Congo 📜 Historical Erasure

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

của Ben Montgomery • 2014

A denim sack, Keds, a shower curtain: a 67-year-old grandma walked the Appalachian Trail alone.

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🥾 Thru Hiking 🏔️ Appalachian Trail 👩‍🦳 Women In History 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivors 🌳 Healing In Nature

Grandma Gatewood's Walk

A denim sack, Keds, a shower curtain: a 67-year-old grandma walked the Appalachian Trail alone.

của Ben Montgomery 2014 277 trang

4.11

31.000+ đánh giá

🥾 Thru Hiking 🏔️ Appalachian Trail 👩‍🦳 Women In History 💜 Domestic Abuse Survivors 🌳 Healing In Nature

Russia and the Russians

của Geoffrey Hosking • 2001

Russia built an empire but never lasting institutions. Geography made autocracy feel like survival.

3.97

500+

🏰 Imperial Russia 🪆 Soviet History 🌍 Geopolitics 👑 Autocracy ⛓️ Totalitarianism

Russia and the Russians

Russia built an empire but never lasting institutions. Geography made autocracy feel like survival.

của Geoffrey Hosking 2001 718 trang

3.97

500+ đánh giá

🏰 Imperial Russia 🪆 Soviet History 🌍 Geopolitics 👑 Autocracy ⛓️ Totalitarianism

A Man Called White

của Walter Francis White • 1948

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

4.23

✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

A Man Called White

Blue-eyed and Black, he could pass for white, so he walked straight into lynch mobs.

của Walter Francis White 1948 392 trang

4.23

48 đánh giá

✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🪢 Anti-Lynching Activism 🪞 Passing Narratives 🗳️ Voting Rights

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

của James Patterson • 2025

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

3.66

6.000+

🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

của James Patterson 2025 416 trang

3.66

6.000+ đánh giá

🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

Creative Evolution

của Henri Bergson • 1907

Life is not an accident but a creative current, invisible to minds built for solids.

4.10

1.000+

🌊 Process Philosophy 🧬 Philosophy Of Biology ✨ Vitalism ⏳ Metaphysics Of Time 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Creative Evolution

Life is not an accident but a creative current, invisible to minds built for solids.

của Henri Bergson 1907 468 trang

4.10

1.000+ đánh giá

🌊 Process Philosophy 🧬 Philosophy Of Biology ✨ Vitalism ⏳ Metaphysics Of Time 🧠 Consciousness Studies

The Death of Democracy

của Benjamin Carter Hett • 2018

Hitler didn't seize power. Conservative elites handed it to him, certain they could control him.

4.26

3.000+

🏛️ Weimar Republic ⚠️ Democratic Collapse 🎭 Elite Complicity 📢 Propaganda Techniques ♟️ Political Miscalculation

The Death of Democracy

Hitler didn't seize power. Conservative elites handed it to him, certain they could control him.

của Benjamin Carter Hett 2018 304 trang

4.26

3.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Weimar Republic ⚠️ Democratic Collapse 🎭 Elite Complicity 📢 Propaganda Techniques ♟️ Political Miscalculation

Bring the War Home

của Kathleen Belew • 2018

The Oklahoma City bombing was no lone-wolf act; it capped a paramilitary movement born of Vietnam.

4.21

3.000+

🧬 White Nationalism 💣 Domestic Terrorism 🪖 Militia Movements 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🇺🇸 Post-Vietnam America

Bring the War Home

The Oklahoma City bombing was no lone-wolf act; it capped a paramilitary movement born of Vietnam.

của Kathleen Belew 2018 339 trang

4.21

3.000+ đánh giá

🧬 White Nationalism 💣 Domestic Terrorism 🪖 Militia Movements 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🇺🇸 Post-Vietnam America

Our Palestine Question

của Geoffrey Phillip Levin • 2023

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

4.17

📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

Our Palestine Question

Declassified files expose Israel's covert campaign to suppress American Jewish dissent on Palestine.

của Geoffrey Phillip Levin 2023 320 trang

4.17

99 đánh giá

📜 American Jewish History 🕊️ Israel-Palestine Conflict 🌐 Diaspora Politics 📢 Jewish Anti-Zionism ⚖️ Palestinian Rights

When We Were the Kennedys

của Monica Wood • 2012

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

3.93

7.000+

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

When We Were the Kennedys

A girl loses her father. Then JFK is shot, and private grief finds a national mirror.

của Monica Wood 2012 235 trang

3.93

7.000+ đánh giá

🧒 Childhood Memoir 🕊️ Parental Loss ☮️ 1960s America 🔧 Working Class Life ✝️ Catholic Family Life

The Road to Jonestown

của Jeff Guinn • 2017

Over 900 people followed Jim Jones to the jungle. One day in 1978, they drank.

4.17

19.000+

🧠 Cult Psychology 🎤 Charismatic Leadership 🧿 Mind Control 🕊️ Corrupted Idealism 👑 Absolute Power

The Road to Jonestown

Over 900 people followed Jim Jones to the jungle. One day in 1978, they drank.

của Jeff Guinn 2017 454 trang

4.17

19.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Cult Psychology 🎤 Charismatic Leadership 🧿 Mind Control 🕊️ Corrupted Idealism 👑 Absolute Power

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

của Martin Bunton • 2013

This modern land contest, not an ancient feud, leaves two options: binationalism or apartheid.

4.04

2.000+

🌏 Arab-Israeli Conflict 🏴 Modern Nationalism ✂️ Partition Politics 🏕️ Refugee Crises 🏛️ Colonial Legacies

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

This modern land contest, not an ancient feud, leaves two options: binationalism or apartheid.

của Martin Bunton 2013 160 trang

4.04

2.000+ đánh giá

🌏 Arab-Israeli Conflict 🏴 Modern Nationalism ✂️ Partition Politics 🏕️ Refugee Crises 🏛️ Colonial Legacies

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