Category: History
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Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the Israel/Palestine conflict, especially those looking for a place to start that isn’t too difficult!
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A History of Israel by Howard Sachar
Rating: 5/5, excellent This 1,000 page tome is a fantastic in-depth history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It took me about four years to read and a couple of months to review, but I think it was worth the effort. It’s fairly unbiased compared to other books I’ve looked into on Israel. It leans slightly pro-Israel,…
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A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Rating: 3/5, average “Many histories of philosophy exist, and it has not been my purpose merely to add one to their number. My purpose is to exhibit philosophy as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a case of the…
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I’m a little late to the party on this one, as it came out in 2005 and was fairly popular when I first heard about it in 2009. By that time I was a senior in high school and not really interested in YA fiction as much, so I ignored the hype, but… a book group…