Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.70
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life…
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1. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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- history
- ancient history
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
2. The Literary Conference
By: César Aira , Katherine Silver
3.60
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
César is a playwright and translator who has fallen on very hard times due to the global economic d… read more
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3. El lejano país de los estanques (Bevilacqua y Chamorro, #1)
By: Lorenzo Silva
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
En mitad de un torrido agosto mesetario, el sargento Bevilacqua, que pese a la sonoridad exotica de… read more
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4. Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
By: Kelly Sue DeConnick , Robert Wilson IV , Valentine De Landro
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De … read more
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5. The Book of English Magic
By: Philip Carr-Gomm , Richard Heygate
3.77
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Book of English Magic explores the curious and little-known fact that of all the countries in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
6. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
By: Guy Deutscher
4.75
Format: None pages,
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny qu… read more
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7. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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8. Jason and the Golden Fleece
By: Apollonius of Rhodes , Richard L. Hunter
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Argonauticais the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with … read more
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9. The Furies
By: Natalie Haynes
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,… read more
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10. The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the g… read more
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11. The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)
By: J.Y. Yang
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children.… read more
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12. 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
By: Donald P. Ryan
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life wa… read more
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- history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- mythology
- audiobook
13. The Mysteries
By: Bill Watterson
3.76
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more
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14. 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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- science
- history
- technology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Duke I Tempted (The Secrets of Charlotte Street, #1)
By: Scarlett Peckham
3.83
Format: 318 pages, ebook
He’s controlled. Meticulous. Immaculate. No one would expect the proper Duke of Westmead to be a me… read more
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- audiobook
16. Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants
By: Fez Inkwright
4.28
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Discover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants through this beautifully produced, gorge… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
17. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- mythology
- audiobook
18. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.96
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more
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- audiobook
19. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. The North Light
By: Hideo Yokoyama
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a pri… read more
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21. I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories
By: Kim Bo-young
3.73
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities In this mind-expanding work of speculative fic… read more
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"People said this was the end of the world. I disagreed. It was simply the end of the human race. People said the gods had abandoned the world. I disagreed. Divine attention had simply shifted from us…"-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories
"Now people refused to believe that they and the world were one and the same. That they and the Other were one and the same. They thought themselves alone, and drunk in their solitude, they questioned…"-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories
22. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
23. Cathedral
By: Ben Hopkins
3.88
Format: 622 pages, Hardcover
A thoroughly immersive read and a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story … read more
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- religion
- audiobook
24. Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
By: Kevin Peter Hand
4.14
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
25. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
By: Natasha Tidd
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies … read more
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- history
- audiobook
26. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.70
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- classics
- history
- artificial intelligence
- ancient history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
- technology
27. Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
By: Craig Childs
3.88
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
28. Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
By: Ashley Mears
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of model… read more
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- history
- audiobook
29. Soror: Mujeres en Roma
By: Patricia González Gutiérrez
4.32
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
«Te esperaré, hermana», escribió, de su puño y letra, Claudia Severa a su amiga Sulpicia Lepidina, … read more
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- nonfiction
30. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
By: Illia Ponomarenko
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A raw, irreverent account of a young Ukrainian reporter on-the-ground as his country heroically def… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what."-Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
