The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective (Cambridge World Archaeology)
By: Stephen Shennan
4.23
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the applic…
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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- history
- european history
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
3. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
4. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
By: Joseph Henrich
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, ofte… read more
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- history
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5. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
6. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater sou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
7. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
By: Steven Mithen
3.96
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers… read more
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- history
- archaeology
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- prehistory
- science
8. Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Podany portrays Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300, paying particular attention to royal inter… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC
By: Marc Van de Mieroop
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the… read more
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11. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
12. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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13. Philosophy Before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia
By: Marc Van de Mieroop
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only … read more
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14. 300
By: Frank Miller , Lynn Varley
4.00
Format: 98 pages,
The army of Persia - a force so vast it shakes the earth with its march - is poised to crush Greece… read more
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15. A History of India, vol. 1: From Origins to 1300 (A History of India #1)
By: Romila Thapar
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A full account of Indian history from the establishment of Aryan culture to the coming of the Mugha… read more
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16. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
17. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
18. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
19. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- history
- european history
20. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- evolution
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
21. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
22. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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- history
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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
23. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
25. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
By: Jean M. Auel
4.09
Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the bounda… read more
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"Más vale ser un hombre viejo que un muchacho que se cree hombre."-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
"Ese aperitivo que es el hambre contribuía a que todo tuviera mejor sabor aún."-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
"The test is not just something hard to do, the test is knowing you can do it."-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
"Ayla loved these moments of solitude. Basking in the sun, feeling relaxed and content, she thought about nothing in particular, except the beautiful day and how happy she was."-Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
26. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.50
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more
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- archaeology
- nonfiction
- prehistory
- anthropology
27. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
By: Patrick Wyman
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more
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- history
- european history
28. The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective (Cambridge World Archaeology)
By: Stephen Shennan
4.23
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the applic… read more
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- history
- archaeology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- european history
- prehistory
- anthropology
29. The Indus
By: Andrew Robinson
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Indus civilization flourished for half a millennium from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, when it myster… read more
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- anthropology
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- science
30. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study
By: Bruce G. Trigger
3.77
Format: 774 pages, Paperback
Arising independently in various parts of the world, early civilizations--the first class-based soc… read more
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