Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
By: National Geographic Society
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead S…
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1. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.46
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of everythin… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- reference
2. Understanding Japan: A Cultural History
By: Mark J. Ravina
3.52
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Japan's extraordinary culture is like no other in the world, and it remains mysterious to many of u… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. It's Our Turn to Eat
By: Michela Wrong
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one morning on the doorstep of her London… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
By: Janice Hadlow
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The surprising, deliciously dramatic, and ultimately heartbreaking story of King George III's radic… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
By: Steve Snyder
4.21
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and AliveFor the first time, the full and complete story… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
6. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
By: Catherine McCormack
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
7. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- science
8. The Lost City of the Monkey God
By: Douglas Preston
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more
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- science
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- anthropology
9. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
10. 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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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- science
"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
11. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- archaeology
12. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reach… read more
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- art
- history
- nonfiction
- reference
- adult
13. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- science
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
14. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
- science
15. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adult
- history
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
17. Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
By: Philip Matyszak
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civili… read more
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- history
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- anthropology
"Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became…"-Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
18. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- adult
- science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
19. Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)
By: Mariely Lares
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving… read more
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- adult
"When no one is around to talk in your ear, then you can hear the only voice that really matters. Your own."-Mariely Lares, Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)
20. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
By: Nathan H. Lents
3.95
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
21. Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
By: Gregory Skomal
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Greg Skomal, one of the leading great white shark experts in the country, reveals the true natu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Now the white shark has returned to one of America’s most iconic summertime destinations, and it’s challenging our perception of what the ocean is to us. For the first time in a long time, we have a …"-Gregory Skomal, Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark
22. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- adult
- archaeology
- science
23. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
By: Cara Natterson
4.28
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
24. Witchcraft in the Western Tradition
By: Jennifer McNabb
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
10 lectures on European and American witchcraft trials and history. 5 hours and 11 minutes Fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
"He who is not the right faith of God is not of God, but of him in whom he believes, that is the Devil. -Canon Episcopi"-Jennifer McNabb, Witchcraft in the Western Tradition
"He who is not the right faith of God is not of God, but of him in whom he believes, that is the Devil." -Canon Episcopi"-Jennifer McNabb, Witchcraft in the Western Tradition
25. The Book of Witches
By: Jonathan Strahan
3.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar… read more
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- adult
26. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
27. The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
By: Scott Carney
4.40
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nucl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
28. Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
By: National Geographic Society
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead S… read more
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- art
- science
- history
- travel
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- reference
- adult
- archaeology
- anthropology
29. The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One o… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
30. The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids
By: Rebecca Rolland
4.04
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From a Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist, an invaluable guide that gives readers … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
