Europe: A Natural History
By: Tim Flannery
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe …
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1. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
2. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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3. A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
By: John Romer
3.78
Format: None pages,
The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, s… read more
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4. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more
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5. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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6. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
8. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- history
- biology
- evolution
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- history
- biology
- evolution
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
10. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
By: Henry Gee
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with chu… read more
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- nature
- science
"For if life on Earth was forged in fire, it was hardened in ice."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
"Therefore, do not despair. The Earth abides, and life is living yet."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
11. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
12. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)
By: Bethany Jacobs
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more
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13. Flames
By: Robbie Arnott
4.07
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, C… read more
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- nature
14. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich
By: Volker Ullrich
4.21
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more
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- history
- european history
15. Europe: A Natural History
By: Tim Flannery
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe … read more
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- science
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- biology
- evolution
- natural history
- nonfiction
- european history
- environment
- nature
- anthropology
16. Călătorie în jurul omului
By: Alexandru N. Stermin
4.12
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
„Biologul Alexandru Stermin călătorește în jurul lumii. Ceea ce începe ca un periplu în lumea biolo… read more
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17. Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
By: Thomas Williams
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolk… read more
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- history
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18. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more
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- history
- biology
- evolution
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- nature
- anthropology
19. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
By: Tom Bullough
3.98
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more
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- nonfiction
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- environment
20. Berkeley: El empirista ingenioso (Biblioteca Descubrir la Filosofía, #37)
By: Luis Alfonso Iglesias Huelga
3.82
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Durante los siglos XVII y XVIII tiene lugar el empirismo británico, un movimiento filosófico caract… read more
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