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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

Ben Wilson

4.5 on Amazon

6 HN comments

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson, Stephen Hoye, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

6 HN comments

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Deborah Blum

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore and Recorded Books

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

4.6 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis, Bing West, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.8 on Amazon

5 HN comments

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

G. J. Meyer, Robin Sachs, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Marcus Aurelius , David Hicks, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

4.4 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris, Mark Deakins, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Ron Chernow, Robertson Dean, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History

DK and Smithsonian Institution

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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jazonJune 10, 2011

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Some translations are better than others, but I have found The Emperor's Handbook[1] to be the best so far.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743233832/

incisiononApr 3, 2013

I just happened upon this via HN Store [1].

I own several translations and have to recommend "The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations" [2] most highly.

1: http://www.hnstore.co/
2: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743233832/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

zkochonFeb 3, 2013

Another great translation of these is by two brothers, David and C. Scott Hicks. It's called The Emperor's Handbook[1], and is an attempt to translate them in a way that is less literal and more "in the spirit" of what Aurelius was trying to convey. I definitely suggest it.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743233832/ref=wms_ohs_prod...

pskomorochonJan 29, 2009

I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38...

1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz

2. Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Barry R. McCaffrey

3. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach by Dandridge M. Malone

4. The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough

5. The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle by Robert Leonhard

6. Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) by B. H. Liddell Hart

7. The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli

8. Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

9. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

10. The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu

11. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli

12. Evolutionary Game Theory by Jörgen W. Weibull

13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung

14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides

15. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus

16. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon

17. Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) by Plutarch

18. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch

19. Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Titus Livy

20. The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

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