The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
By: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
3.97
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transforme…
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1. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.23
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars i… read more
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- history
- world history
- asia
- nonfiction
- china
2. A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
By: Stanley G. Payne
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. India: A History
By: John Keay
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South… read more
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- asia
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
By: Russell Shorto
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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7. Dragon Teeth
By: Michael Crichton
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Michael Crichton's recently discovered novel--an adventure set in the Wild West during the golden a… read more
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8. America's War for the Greater Middle East
By: Andrew J. Bacevich
4.24
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing re… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Like the present-day GOP, the Northern Alliance was a loose coalition of unsavory opportunists, interested chiefly in acquiring power."-Andrew J. Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East
9. Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
By: None
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made The open range cattle era las… read more
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10. Vietnam: A New History
By: Christopher E. Goscha
3.41
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A 2017 Cundill History Prize Finalist "Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest… read more
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11. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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12. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By: Adam Tooze
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more
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13. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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14. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
- audiobook
16. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
By: Mike Duncan
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. The World: A Family History of Humanity
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.00
Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
18. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- russia
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- audiobook
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
19. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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21. The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
By: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
3.97
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transforme… read more
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- japan
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