The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
By: David Abulafia
4.23
Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover
A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the aw…
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1. An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
By: Michael Smith
4.51
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in An… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
3. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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- nonfiction
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
4. A Short History of England
By: Simon Jenkins
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
England's history is the most exciting of any nation on Earth. Its triumphs and disasters are insta… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By: Tony Judt
4.37
Format: 933 pages, Paperback
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
6. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
By: Robert D. Kaplan
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croa… read more
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7. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more
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8. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
By: Robert Wright
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among th… read more
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9. 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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10. Opium: A History
By: Martin Booth
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more
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11. 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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12. Byzantium: The Early Centuries
By: John Julius Norwich
4.01
Format: 0 pages,
"This book tells the story of the Byzantine Empire from its beginnings to the emergence of its only… read more
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13. The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
By: Mensun Bound
4.12
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- geography
- science
14. 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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- history
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- audiobook
15. 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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- history
- audiobook
16. 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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- nature
- science
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- nonfiction
- environment
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"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
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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- audiobook
18. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
By: James Vincent
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more
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- history
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19. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.00
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more
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- history
- world history
- audiobook
"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
21. The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
By: Sverker Johansson
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistic… read more
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- science
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- nonfiction
- nature
- anthropology
"I discovered something that was more exciting than physics: language."-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
"It is possible, in principle, that language suddenly appeared fully formed during human evolution without any gradual or intermediate forms. That notion, a linguistic Big Bang, has been championed by…"-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
22. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- science
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- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
23. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
24. 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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25. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
4.19
Format: 630 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language… read more
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- history
- world history
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks, for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume. —Arabic saying ~800 AD"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
"In Arabic ‘the written symbol is considered to be identical with the sound indicated by it’. Letters are not just phonetic; they are phonic, acoustic,’… script that fills the ears of him that sees it…"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
26. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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- geography
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27. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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- history
- audiobook
28. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
By: Tim Marshall
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
29. You Didn't Mention the Piranhas
By: Sarah Nelson Smith
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How to live more bravely and successfully navigate through any disaster In 2018, award-winning lawy… read more
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30. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
By: David Abulafia
4.23
Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover
A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the aw… read more
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- maritime
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- geography
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31. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
