Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty (Turning Points in Ancient History)
By: Anthony A. Barrett
3.61
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it i…
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1. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By: Antony Beevor
3.91
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more
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- history
2. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against pois… read more
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- history
- biography
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
By: Anthony Everitt
3.70
Format: 186 pages,
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustuswas praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a narr… read more
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- history
- biography
- ancient history
- ancient
- nonfiction
4. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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- italy
- history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Mystery Cults of the Ancient World
By: Hugh Bowden
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is the first book to describe and explain all of the ancient world's major mystery cults--one … read more
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7. The Shaping of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-Earth, #4)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
3.04
Format: 40 pages,
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's e… read more
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8. The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
By: John Brockman
4.33
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers--including Bria… read more
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9. The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
By: Margot Mifflin
2.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon fa… read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
12. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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- history
- historical
- ancient history
- ancient
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
By: Barry S. Strauss
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who foun… read more
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- italy
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- biography
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- italy
- history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
By: Barry S. Strauss
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A “splendid” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-… read more
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- italy
- history
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Perfect Silence (D.I. Callanach, #4)
By: Helen Sarah Fields
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
When silence falls, who will hear their cries? The body of a young girl is found dumped on the r… read more
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- audiobook
17. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- italy
- history
- historical
- ancient history
- ancient
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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- audiobook
19. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
By: Philip Matyszak
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most po… read more
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- italy
- history
- historical
- ancient history
- ancient
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Every time Titus comes to Rome, he feels his sinuses cringe in horror."-Philip Matyszak, 24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
20. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- ancient history
"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
21. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
4.21
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civili… read more
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- ancient history
- ancient
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became…"-Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
23. In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
By: Dominic Lieven
3.79
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probe… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty (Turning Points in Ancient History)
By: Anthony A. Barrett
3.61
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it i… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- ancient history
- ancient
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- history
- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
26. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
By: Mary Beard
3.68
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
By: Emma Southon
4.22
Format: 285 pages, None
They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more
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- italy
- history
- biography
- historical
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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- ancient
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29. The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
By: James Romm
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” ( Booklist ) deep dive into the last deca… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- ancient history
30. The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
By: Christopher I. Beckwith
3.41
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world I… read more
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- ancient history
- ancient
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- audiobook
31. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
By: Stefanos Geroulanos
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more
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- nonfiction
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