24 best-selling nonfiction books like American Military History: From Colonials to Counterinsurgents by Wesley K. Clark

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American Military History: From Colonials to Counterinsurgents

By: Wesley K. Clark

3.70

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

A Rhodes Scholar and thinking man’s officer, Gen. Clark came to master all the tactics, strategy, a…

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1. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.13

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unp… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Even his own speeches bored him."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"Society's revenge matched its fright."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

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2. The Lessons of History

By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant

4.07

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign."

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow he…"

-Will Durant, The Lessons of History

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3. Legacies of Great Economists

By: Timothy Taylor

4.30

Format: 899 pages, Audio Cassette

From The Great Courses Series, this one titled "Legacies of Great Economists," taught by Professor … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Napoleon: A Life

By: Andrew Roberts

4.23

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

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5. From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320)

By: Kenneth J. Hammond

4.49

Format: None pages,

In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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6. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement

By: Ashton Nichols

3.94

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed

By: Edwin Barnhart

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Audible Audio

Centuries ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands encountered a group of indepe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By: Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. The Skeptic's Guide to American History

By: Mark A. Stoler

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Audible Audio

To take a skeptical approach to American history is not to dabble in imaginative conspiracy theorie… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. World War II: A Military and Social History

By: Thomas Childers

3.30

Format: 208 pages,

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By: David Halberstam

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"In a grand gesture of reclamation & remembrance, Mr Halberstam has brought the war back home."--NY… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

12. History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev (The Great Courses, Course No. 8380)

By: None

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Audio CD

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13. Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years

By: Peter G. Tsouras

4.00

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than thirteen centu… read more

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14. The Arabs: A History

By: Eugene Rogan

3.86

Format: None pages,

To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground character… read more

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15. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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16. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizin… read more

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  • audiobook
"An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in..."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also …"

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

17. Heroes and Legends: The most influential characters of literature

By: Thomas A. Shippey

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Audiobook

Odysseus. Robinson Crusoe. Harry Potter. What do these memorable characters have in common? Why do … read more

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18. The Rise of Rome (The Great Courses)

By: Gregory S. Aldrete

4.30

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

12 hours 15 mins The Roman Republic is one of the most breathtaking civilizations in world histo… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by John McWhorter

19. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet

By: John McWhorter

3.99

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival

By: Suzanne Pilaar Birch

3.89

Format: None pages, Audiobook

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. How to Speak Effectively in Any Setting

By: Molly Bishop Shadel

4.21

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

11 hours and 20 minutes The power of an effective speech is undeniable. It has the capacity to e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

22. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal

By: Kyler Shumway

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

We’ve all been told, at one point or another, to "just be yourself." Whether you are starting schoo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Fall of the Pagans and the Origins of Medieval Christianity

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.05

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 12 hours and 33 minutes Why did pagan Rome, which had a history of tolerating … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. Creation Stories of the Ancient World

By: Joseph Lam

3.90

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

Length: 4 hours and 57 minutes Creation stories, found within many ancient cultures, are traditi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Mysteries of the Microscopic World (The Great Course, #1551) by Bruce E. Fleury

26. Mysteries of the Microscopic World (The Great Course, #1551)

By: Bruce E. Fleury

4.12

Format: None pages, None

An invisible world of astonishing complexity is all around you. A world so small you can't see it w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Business Law: Negligence and Torts by Frank B. Cross

27. Business Law: Negligence and Torts

By: Frank B. Cross

4.13

Format: None pages, Audio CD

(8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)*Foundations of Torts and Negligence Introduction*Negligence (conti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World by Daniel N. Robinson

28. Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World

By: Daniel N. Robinson

3.88

Format: None pages, Audio CD

High level, university level teaching! Course Lecture Titles 1. "Depth Psychology" From the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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29. American Military History: From Colonials to Counterinsurgents

By: Wesley K. Clark

3.70

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

A Rhodes Scholar and thinking man’s officer, Gen. Clark came to master all the tactics, strategy, a… read more

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  • world war i
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species by Scott Solomon

30. Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

By: Scott Solomon

4.20

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In many ways, insects are just like us. Elaborate mating rituals, a variety of parenting styles, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of African American History: From Emancipation Through Jim Crow by Hasan Kwame Jeffries

31. African American History: From Emancipation Through Jim Crow

By: Hasan Kwame Jeffries

4.25

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not bring about the kind of progress free Black men and women … read more

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4.30

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4.23

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4.49

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3.93

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