Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
By: Nicholas Spencer
4.07
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Most things you ‘know’ about…
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2. Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
By: Paul Collins
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, … read more
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3. Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848
By: Adam Zamoyski
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
After the French Revolution, conservative governments from Britain to Russia created bulwarks to pr… read more
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4. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
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Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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5. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
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4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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6. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
7. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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8. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
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9. Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter
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4.49
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3.85
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11. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
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12. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
By: Claire Hughes Johnson
4.29
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13. Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
By: Nicholas Spencer
4.07
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Most things you ‘know’ about… read more
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14. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
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15. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
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16. History's Most Bizarrely Entertaining Facts Explained (Volume 5): Stories Behind Fascinating Sagas, Curious Incidents and Weird Biographies
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4.06
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3.86
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19. The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
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20. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ
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4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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