Age of Ambition

Age of Ambition

By
Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos
2014 • 403 pages

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654 books

Nonfiction

sylviax
Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

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14 books

Heard About It On Fresh Air

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Sylvia Chi
How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends
Death Comes to Pemberley
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
How to Be Black
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

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16 books

The Motherland

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Sylvia Chi
The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy
China in Ten Words
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Kinder than solitude
The Incarnations
Economic History of China

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52 books

Read 2022

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Brent Parkey
Crossroads
An Army at Dawn
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
Slow Horses
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Dead Lions
The New Map

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62 books

Kobo

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Brent Parkey
The Old Devils
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Brighton Rock
Our Man in Havana
The Comanche Empire
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
The Fireman

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127 books

Owned

vivian
Vivian
Grave Peril
The Midnight Library
The Creative Habit
On writing well
Influence
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

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49 books

Economics

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zach
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Economic Science Fictions
Who Owns the Future?
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

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99 books

Politics

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zach
The secretary
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
On Revolution
Dark Money
Pathologies of Power

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81 books

Asia

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zach
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
China's Last Empire
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Rising Sun

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123 books

0 My Library

vivian
Vivian
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Richest Man in Babylon
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Principles: Life and Work
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Poverty, by America

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19 books

Sociology

vivian
Vivian
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
Poverty, by America
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Flawless
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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489 books

Nonfiction

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kab
Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry
Tricks of the mind
Brief History of Time
Mythology
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Riding the Iron Rooster
Catch Me If You Can

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37 books

China Chinese Diaspora

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kab
Age of Ambition
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Kingdom of Characters
Invisible Planets
Death's End
The Dark Forest
The Three-Body Problem

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69 books

History

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kab
Kingdom of Characters
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission

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23 books

History

vivian
Vivian
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Walkable City
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Operation Paperclip
The Principles of Communism
Poverty, by America
Nuclear War: A Scenario

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10 books

Cultures

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Tu Hoang
Age of Ambition
Dumb luck : a novel
Oracle Bones
Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc!
Educated: A Memoir
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Tôi Bỏ Quên Tôi Ở Nước Anh

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10 books

Modern History

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Tu Hoang
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Age of Ambition
Animal Farm
Cat's Cradle
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
Travellers in the Third Reich

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44 books

History Of Nations

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Siddhartha Golu
A People's Tragedy
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Concentration Camps
Lenin's Tomb
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
The History of Ancient Egypt

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16 books

Ea Hist

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lincoln
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Journey to the West, Volume 1 (Journey to the West)
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Vol. 1
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima

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3,780 books

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257 books

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Current Affairs

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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857
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Oracle Bones

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27 books

Good China Books

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