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 …
Want to Read $ 9.99"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
"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, but is ill informed and, worse, spellbound by a science that is barely understood by experts, let alone tourists."-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, but is ill informed and, worse, spellbound by a science that is barely understood by experts, let alone tourists."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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1. Mi sa che fuori è primavera
By: Concita De Gregorio
3.87
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
Ferite d’oro. Quando un oggetto di valore si rompe, in Giappone, lo si ripara con oro liquido. È un… read more
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2. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
By: George Pendle
3.97
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Now a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott. ROCKET SC… read more
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"As for Crowley , his reputation grew and grew. His gospel of “Do what thou wilt"-George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
"Ever since Parsons had been a boy, however, the dark side of magic had captivated him. "I know that witchcraft is mostly nonsense, except where it is a blind," he wrote to Crowley in 1943, "but I am …"-George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
3. The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
By: Joseph Auguste Merasty , David Carpenter
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retir… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
By: Jamie Bartlett
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS AND LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE Beyond the familiar o… read more
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5. The Origins of the Second World War
By: A.J.P. Taylor
3.99
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
6. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
By: Svante Pääbo
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the… read more
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7. Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
By: David J. Linden
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnecte… read more
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8. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
By: Ian Mortimer
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more
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- history
- audiobook
9. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- audiobook
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- science
12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
13. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
14. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. 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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- audiobook
16. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
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- audiobook
17. The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
By: Renee Dudley
3.88
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersec… read more
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18. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
By: Anna Merlan
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the caus… read more
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- audiobook
"Basically," he said, "it's black people who scare them."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"A weird thing about being black is some of it is true and some of it is not," Michael Harriot told me reflectively. "But," he said, "none of it is crazy."-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
"Truth and fact-checking travel along the same paths that conspiracies do. But the truth is often complicated, shaded and demanding, and there's no denying that it often lacks the powerful, emotional,…"-Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
19. Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome
By: David King
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked int… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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21. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more
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22. The Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to COVID
By: Russell Jones
4.64
Format: 680 pages, Hardcover
In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative ru… read more
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23. 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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24. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
By: Tom Phillips
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more
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- audiobook
25. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more
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26. 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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- race
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- eugenics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- genetics
- audiobook
"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
27. Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
By: James Bloodworth
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A compelling and ground-breaking piece of narrative journalism that gets right to the heart of divi… read more
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28. The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
By: John Strausbaugh
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its… read more
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29. Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
By: Ashley Ward
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Ou… read more
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