Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
By: Lukas Rieppel
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the …
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1. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
By: Stephen King
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Kin… read more
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3. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
4. Slavery and the British Empire
By: Kenneth Morgan
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Slavery and the British Empireprovides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvemen… read more
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- american history
- history
5. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
By: None
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
6. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
By: Ernest Freeberg
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The late 19th century saw a surge of technological advancement, but probably nothing as important a… read more
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7. The Carpet People
By: Terry Pratchett
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . . That's the old… read more
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8. Nations and Nationalism
By: Ernest Gellner , None , None , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From reviews of the first edition: "Brilliant, provocative . . . a great book."--New Statesman "An… read more
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9. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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10. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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11. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek And Roman Times
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue … read more
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12. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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13. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- natural history
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- science
14. Extinction
By: Douglas Preston
4.14
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more
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- audiobook
"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- economics
- audiobook
17. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
18. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
19. The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens… read more
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- audiobook
"Children should always be believed until proven otherwise."-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
"know that expression—only a man could cause a woman to look like that"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
"Fear had to be handled with care, managed so it became a tool, not a weight."-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
"I believe it’s called ‘irrational reasoning.’ It’s what happens to people when they’re scared"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
20. Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948
By: Tara Zahra
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for ru… read more
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- history
21. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
By: Kristin L. Hoganson
3.74
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expans… read more
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- american history
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
23. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies)
By: Sasha Turner
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany (New Studies in European History)
By: Sebastian Conrad
3.59
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
The process of globalisation in the late nineteenth century had a profound effect on the trajectori… read more
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- history
25. The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s “Barbarity Time” in Barbados, 1636-1876 (Beckles' Trio Book 2)
By: Hilary McD. Beckles
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized. The geograp… read more
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- history
26. Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
By: Kelly J. Baker
3.72
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or post… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
27. The Populist Vision
By: Charles Postel
3.63
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam p… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
28. A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
By: Simon P. Newman
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
By: Lukas Rieppel
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the … read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- history
- politics
- natural history
- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
- economics
- science
30. Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age
By: Edward T. O'Donnell
3.79
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteent… read more
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- american history
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
