The Museum of Lost Art
By: Noah Charney
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of d…
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art
By: Julian Barnes
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that gre… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
4. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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5. Great Minds of the Medieval World
By: Dorsey Armstrong
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Audible Audio
The Middle Ages was a time of major advances in many fields of knowledge, from theology and philoso… read more
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6. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
By: Paul Strathern
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, Th… read more
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7. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more
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8. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
9. Lights (Sheets, #3)
By: Brenna Thummler
4.27
Format: 366 pages, None
Marjorie, Eliza, and Wendell the ghost are back to uncover the secrets of Wendell’s human life in t… read more
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10. When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
By: Kara Cooney
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It should come as no surprise that women need to work doubly hard to prove their right to power. They have to look to their menfolk around them who can support their claim, rather than detract from i…"-Kara Cooney, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
12. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
By: John McWhorter
3.99
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare
By: Ben Bravery
4.30
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a… read more
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- nonfiction
14. A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
By: Victoria Shepherd
3.22
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified he might shatter…and he wasn’t a… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- history
15. The Moroccan Girl
By: Charles Cumming
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
THE MOROCCAN GIRL is a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming.Kit Carradine is the successful aut… read more
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- adult
16. The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
By: Ellery Lloyd
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Some women won't be painted out of history . . . Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress a… read more
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- art
- adult
17. Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts
By: John Barelli
3.36
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, John B… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
18. The Museum of Lost Art
By: Noah Charney
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of d… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
- adult
19. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
By: Donald Preziosi
3.97
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation o… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
20. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
21. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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- adult
