18 books like Kukkwŏn hoebok undong

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The bravo James Fenimore Cooper · 1831 · ★ 3.0 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Originally published in 1831, this novel is set in Venice in the bygone days of the Doges. It was inspired by Cooper's travels in Italy. The author has intended to give his countrymen, writes Cooper in his preface, "a picture of the social system of the soi-disant republics of the other hemisphere." Cooper aims to show, William Cullen Bryant said, that all systems which reserve power for the… Shares Politics and government, Social conditions

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell · 1922 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This book is A must read for anyone looking to understand a historical perspective and how Mr. Russell's China compares to today's rising Dragon. Shares Foreign relations, Politics and government, Philosophy, History

Blood and Oil

Blood and Oil Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.​ 35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister… Shares Foreign relations, Politics and government, History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 Shares Philosophy with this book.

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

Bodalsi͡a︡ telenok s dubom Александр Солженицын · 1975 · ★ 4.0 · 568p · ≈ 18h · Moderate **The Oak and the Calf**, subtitled *Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union*, is a memoir by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, about his attempts to publish work in his own country. Solzhenitsyn began writing the memoir in April 1967, when he was 49 years old, and added supplements in 1971, 1973, and 1974. The work was first published in Russian in 1975 under the title *Бодался… Shares Economic conditions, Politics and government, Social conditions

De la démocratie en Amérique Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835 · ★ 4.1 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist. In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of… Shares Politics and government, Social conditions, History

Marshall Field's

Marshall Field's Gayle Soucek · 2010 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 155 p. : 23 cm Shares Economic conditions, History

The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares Philosophy, History

Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne Alexander von Humboldt · 1811 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Economic conditions, Politics and government, Social conditions with this book.

Genocide, ethnonationalism, and the United Nations Hannibal Travis · 2012 · 362p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Nationalism, History with this book.

Gudinnan Frigg och Als härad

Gudinnan Frigg och Als härad Hugo Jungner · 1922 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Antiquities with this book.

Om hove og hovudgravninger på Island

Om hove og hovudgravninger på Island Daniel Bruun · 1910 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Antiquities with this book.

Shadow of a hero Peter Dickinson · 1994 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 1989, Letta, an English teenager, learns of her heritage from her grandfather, great-grandson of the legendary hero of Varina, as he becomes involved in the nationalistic political struggles in Eastern Europe. Shares Nationalism, History

Ab urbe condita Titus Livius · 1481 · ★ 4.2 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more stories immortalized by Livy in his history of Rome have become part of our cultural heritage." "The historian's huge work consisted of 142 books which trace Rome's history from its foundation in 753 BC to events in Livy's own lifetime… Shares Antiquities, Politics and government, History

Society in America Harriet Martineau · 1837 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Economic conditions, Politics and government, History with this book.

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