The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
By: Anthony Kaldellis
4.61
Format: 1160 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the s…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
By: David Abulafia
3.96
Format: 783 pages, Hardcover
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilizat… read more
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- history
- world history
- ancient history
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- european history
3. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
5. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
6. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
By: Peter Sarris
4.29
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessme… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
8. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
9. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
3.95
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more
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- history
- world history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
10. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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- history
- world history
- nonfiction
- european history
- medieval
11. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
12. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
13. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
15. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
By: Martyn Rady
4.13
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more
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- history
- world history
- nonfiction
- european history
- medieval
16. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
By: Nicholas Morton
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages … read more
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- medieval
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
17. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
By: Anthony Kaldellis
4.61
Format: 1160 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the s… read more
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- world history
- church history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
- medieval
- greece
18. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
By: Judith Herrin
3.92
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imp… read more
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- history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
- medieval
19. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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- history
- world history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
20. Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
By: Peter Heather
4.14
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the 4th century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, an… read more
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- church history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
- medieval
21. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
