Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
By: Jacob L. Wright
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
"A revelation, even to those who have read the Bible for a lifetime! "We witness how in the afterm…
Want to Read $ 26.49"Law without a story was ineffective."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"Law without a story was ineffective."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"In the Song (of Songs), love defies death itself."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"In the Song (of Songs), love defies death itself."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
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1. 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
2. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
By: Irving Finkel
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of t… read more
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- history
- christianity
- ancient history
- religion
- nonfiction
"Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like wi…"-Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
"…для прочтения клинописного текста надо сначала идентифицировать определенный знак, затем понять, использован ли он как логограмма, силлабограмма, фонетический комплемент или детерминатив, и только п…"-Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
3. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
4. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
By: Peter H. Wilson
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Julian
By: Gore Vidal
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spr… read more
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6. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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7. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- theology
8. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- christian
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- christianity
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- nonfiction
11. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
12. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
13. Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14)
By: Robert Goldsborough
3.75
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously h… read more
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14. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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- christian
- history
- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
15. 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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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
16. A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
By: John Barton
4.09
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents wer… read more
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- christian
- history
- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
17. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
18. Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
By: Peter Heather
3.59
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating, informative and deeply thoughtful' Financial Times'This essay has changed my view bot… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
19. The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
4.11
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lawrence Krauss explores the greatest unanswered questions at the forefront of science today, and l… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
By: Paul M.M. Cooper
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more
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- ancient history
- nonfiction
- history
21. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
By: Candida Moss
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more
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- christian
- history
- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
22. The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
By: Yonatan Adler
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking new study that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolution… read more
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- history
- jewish
- judaism
- ancient history
- religion
- nonfiction
23. The Exodus
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and c… read more
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- history
- jewish
- judaism
- ancient history
- religion
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- spirituality
"The documentary hypothesis once held (and maybe still holds) the agreement of the majority of scholars. But that is not what made it right. We do not determine truth by a majority vote. The hypothesi…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"Could it not be that Moses and/or the Levites just came to it on their own?! Scholars have a tendency to take any parallel between ancient Israel's culture and assume that Israel took it from the oth…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"We have seen a movement from many deities to two to one. Whether you take that movement to be fact, mythology, or theology, it is the story of how we got to where most (Western) religions are now. An…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"We all know that there are harsh passages toward others in the Bible as well: dispossess the Canaanites, destroy Jericho, etc. But, as I said earlier, the evidence on the ground indicates that most o…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
24. We Are Only Ghosts
By: Jeffrey L. Richards
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1968: The customers at Café Marie don’t come just for the excellent coffee and pastr… read more
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25. Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
By: Jacob L. Wright
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
"A revelation, even to those who have read the Bible for a lifetime! "We witness how in the afterm… read more
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- christianity
- theology
- judaism
- ancient history
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"Law without a story was ineffective."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"In the Song (of Songs), love defies death itself."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"Both then and now, the most powerful means of creating community is to tell stories."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"Without partnership between two, it is not realistic to expect a community of thousands to survive let alone thrive."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
26. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
By: Karl Schlögel
4.25
Format: 928 pages, Hardcover
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Unio… read more
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- history
27. The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
By: Konrad Schmid
3.86
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century… read more
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- history
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
28. The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
By: Barnaby Rogerson
4.14
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
Rogerson's timely book begins with the contemporary Middle East and the proxy wars between Saudi Ar… read more
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- religion
- history
29. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
By: Marie Arana
4.29
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more
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- history
30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- history
31. Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
By: Neil Van Leeuwen
4.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
To understand the nature of religious belief, we must look at how our minds process the world of im… read more
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- nonfiction
