Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present (Critical Issues in World and International History)
By: Michael D. Bailey
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the hi…
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1. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
By: Katharine Park , Lorraine Daston
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to en… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits
By: Carol K. Mack , Dinah Mack
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Watch your back! . . . How to spot and identify demons and other subversive spirits . . . And what … read more
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- occult
- nonfiction
3. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
By: Jane Mayer
4.16
Format: 76 pages, ebook
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From TheNew York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a … read more
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- nonfiction
5. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who h… read more
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- magic
7. Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on t… read more
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8. Untouched By Human Hands
By: Robert Sheckley
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human … read more
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9. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more
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10. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more
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11. The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated in… read more
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12. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
13. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
14. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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- horror
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
15. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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16. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults
By: Van Badham
4.16
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, u… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. Greatest Hits
By: Harlan Ellison
4.18
Format: 468 pages, Paperback
How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more
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- horror
19. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- witchcraft
20. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
By: Garth Marenghi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more
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- horror
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
21. Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
By: Mick West
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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- history
"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
23. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
By: Deborah Blum
3.92
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. My Murder
By: Katie Williams
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable… read more
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25. This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
By: Andrew Doig
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining, eye-opening work of popular history that illuminates how death has changed across … read more
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- history
26. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present (Critical Issues in World and International History)
By: Michael D. Bailey
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the hi… read more
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- history
- magic
- occult
- nonfiction
- horror
- medieval
- textbooks
- witchcraft
27. History's 9 Most Insane Rulers
By: Scott Rank
3.29
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
Madness and Power. Can the insane rule? Can insanity be a leadership quality? Scott Rank says yes … read more
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- history
