In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
By: J.P. Daughton
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic po…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
By: Antony Beevor
3.91
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and … read more
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3. The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
By: Rohini Mohan
4.39
Format: 368 pages, ebook
For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army final… read more
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"Someone must have talked plenty, because on an afternoon in June 2008, Sarvannantha Pereira was detained by men who didn't say who whey were. They would call it an arrest. It felt more like an abduct…"-Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
"Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle m…"-Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
"The girls were screaming in Tamil, except for one, who was repeating the word "epa" like a loud and shrill chant. That was not how the Sinhala word was usually used, but it was an expression Mugil ha…"-Rohini Mohan, The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
4. African Religions: A Very Short Introduction
By: Jacob K. Olupona
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by e… read more
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5. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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6. East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
By: Philippe Sands
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secre… read more
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7. Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
By: Nicholas Best
3.83
Format: None pages,
The definitive story of the British in Kenya, from the explorer Joseph Thomson, whose exploits insp… read more
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8. Genesis (Memory of Fire, #1)
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
"From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the … read more
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9. The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
By: Thomas Pakenham
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
By: Michela Wrong
3.24
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
He was known as "the Leopard," and for the thirty-two years of his reign Mobutu Sese Seko, presiden… read more
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11. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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12. I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
By: Michela Wrong
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered t… read more
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13. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
14. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
15. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By: Stephen Vladeck
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more
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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
16. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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17. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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18. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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19. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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20. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
21. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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22. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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23. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
By: Michela Wrong
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do … read more
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24. Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
By: Earl Swift
4.10
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middl… read more
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25. Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
By: Timothy Zahn
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thrawn and his allies race to save the Chiss Ascendancy from an unseen enemy in the second book in … read more
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"Eyes held high in pride are less able to see uneven ground ahead."-Timothy Zahn, Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
"Because it's easier?" Samakro growled. "This is the Expansionary Defense Fleet, Caregiver. We don't do things just because they're easier. We do things because they work."-Timothy Zahn, Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
"If you can't tell him, can you at least tell me?" Wutroow asked. "I especially can't tell you," Ar'alani said, giving her a wry smile. "Your brain is the one I rely on to make sure mine is functionin…"-Timothy Zahn, Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
"Thalias looked at Thrawn. "What happens if she doesn't do this?" "Perhaps nothing," Thrawn said. "The analysts may not find anything suspicious, and then all will be well. If they do, there may be tr…"-Timothy Zahn, Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)
26. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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27. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
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28. Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
By: Fawaz A. Gerges
3.74
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular nationalists has shaped the history of the… read more
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29. In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
By: J.P. Daughton
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic po… read more
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- central africa
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- france
30. Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story
By: Fanny Pigeaud
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy.… read more
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31. Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
By: Joe Sacco
4.47
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long… read more
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