Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
By: Joshua B. Freeman
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
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1. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
By: Sam Kean
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more
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"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
2. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
By: Gary Smith
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or th… read more
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3. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
By: Jeff Ryan
4.50
Format: 182 pages,
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible. Nintendo has continually s… read more
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4. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
By: Brian M. Fagan
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more
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5. A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By: Tom Standage
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more
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6. Righteous (IQ, #2)
By: Joe Ide
4.12
Format: 260 pages,
In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death … read more
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7. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more
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8. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By: George Crile
4.36
Format: 544 pages,
s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more
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9. How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
By: Jim Collins
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate lands… read more
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10. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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11. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
By: Marie Favereau
3.84
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builder… read more
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12. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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- audiobook
"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
13. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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14. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
15. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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16. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
4.14
Format: 416 pages, ebook
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more
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- science
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"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
17. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more
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18. Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
By: Vaclav Smil
3.87
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its… read more
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19. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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- audiobook
20. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
By: Christie Aschwanden
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more
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21. 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
By: Arthur Herman
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its center who would set th… read more
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22. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
By: Chun Han Wong
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more
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23. Discrimination and Disparities
By: Thomas Sowell
4.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches… read more
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24. Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans
By: Josh Young
3.58
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce… read more
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25. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civ… read more
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26. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
By: Richard J. King
3.95
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis… read more
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27. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
By: Joshua B. Freeman
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
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- labor
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28. The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
By: David L. Mearns
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This gripping memoir by the world’s foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime h… read more
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29. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
By: Anna Reid
3.96
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial … read more
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30. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
By: Michael Strevens
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
• Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of … read more
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31. Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future
By: Jeremy Kahn
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and… read more
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