Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
By: Sujit Sivasundaram
3.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history and major reassessment of how Britain came to rule the waves – told from the for…
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1. Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
By: Richard Dowden
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa corresponde… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more
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5. The Craftsman
By: Richard Sennett
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Hardcover
Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sak… read more
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6. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
7. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
8. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
9. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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11. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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- history
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
12. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- history
- british literature
13. The First Binding (Tales of Tremaine, #1)
By: R.R. Virdi
3.58
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
All legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. … read more
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"Sometimes people don't need a hand to climb out of weariness and despair. They need an ear. Occasionally, saying the right things. But mostly, many need to be heard more than they need to be talked t…"-R.R. Virdi, The First Binding (Tales of Tremaine, #1)
"Everyone wants their story to matter, and they do. But some people forget that. Everyone wants someone, just that right someone, to listen attentively with wonder and happiness to the greater moments…"-R.R. Virdi, The First Binding (Tales of Tremaine, #1)
14. Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
By: Augustine Sedgewick
3.59
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable p… read more
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- history
"Історична батьківщина рослини, яка по-ботанічному називається Coffea arabica, — Ефіопія. Просто в XVI–XVII століттях кавою монопольно торгували арабські купці з єменського узбережжя Червоного моря, а…"-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
"...means the destruction of our nation just as surely as it meant the destruction of Egypt and Rome and Spain and Germany and all the other nations who came to measure their greatness by their materi…"-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
15. Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
By: Neil MacGregor
4.30
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assum… read more
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- history
"En todos los casos, tanto en política como en religión, la gente define su propia identidad."-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
"La muerte representa tan solo una división en el seno de la comunidad, no el límite de ésta."-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
"A medida que avanza nuestro conocimiento del mundo físico, disminuye nuestra necesidad de que la religión nos lo explique."-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
"Así como cualquier fuego se extingue si nadie vela de forma adecuada de él y lo alimenta, del mismo modo las instituciones de una sociedad se desmoronan si no se reparan y renuevan de manera continua…"-Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
16. Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
By: Sujit Sivasundaram
3.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history and major reassessment of how Britain came to rule the waves – told from the for… read more
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- british literature
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- india
- nonfiction
17. Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Global and International History)
By: Michael Goebel
3.78
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between th… read more
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18. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
By: Ryan Hall
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people cont… read more
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- history
19. The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
By: Xin Zhang
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordina… read more
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20. Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945
By: Federico Finchelstein
4.03
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In Transatlantic Fascism , Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections b… read more
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