The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
By: Edward J. Watts
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, id…
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1. The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
By: Anthony Everitt
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadr… read more
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2. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
By: John Julius Norwich
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In Europe, 1491 to 1500 was an exciting time to be alive. The entire continent was overshadowed by … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
3. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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4. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
By: Chris Wickham
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
An ambitious and enlightening look at why the so-called Dark Ages were anything but that. Prizewinn… read more
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5. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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6. The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
By: Simon Price , Peter Thonemann
4.34
Format: 592 pages,
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level… read more
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7. The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
By: Jürgen Moltmann , John Bowden , None
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
"This is Jurgen Moltmann's best and therefore most important book. He has substantially changed the… read more
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8. Battle of the Linguist Mages
By: Scotto Moore
3.43
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane … read more
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9. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
10. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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- history
"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
12. 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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- 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
13. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
14. Huaco retrato
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.89
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more
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15. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
16. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)
By: Kyle Harper
4.21
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental rete… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
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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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
19. Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
By: Philipp Blom
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixtee… read more
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- history
- european history
20. The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
By: Edward J. Watts
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, id… read more
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- history
- politics
- ancient history
- nonfiction
- european history
21. ¡Reconquista! ¿Reconquista? Reconquista (Spanish Edition)
By: David Porrinas
3.89
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
Reconquista. ¿Sí o no? ¿Podemos seguir hablando de Reconquista? ¿En qué medida y con qué cautelas p… read more
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