Augustines Reading List
Explore Augustine's curated reading list featuring Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, Black Hawk Down, and The Clash of Civilizations—spy history, fiction, and geopolitics for deep thinkers.
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington
Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving force in global politics today and offers a brilliant analysis of the current climate and future possibilities of our world's volatile political culture.
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Resource Wars
by Michael Klare
Klare argues that wars in the near future will be fought over the control of dwindling natural resources like oil and water.
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Black Hawk Down
by Mark Bowden
Chronicles the experiences of ninety-nine American soldiers who were trapped in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993.
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Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
Three editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable about a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy, begin feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into a sophisticated computer, creating an incredible game that begins taking over. Reprint.
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant)
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Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
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