Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Vol. I)
By: Kevin H. Siepel
4.44
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened? If your knowledge of the so-called Spanish Conqu…
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1. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
3.91
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
In World-Systems Analysis , Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to … read more
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"The capitalist world-economy needs the states, needs the interstate system, and needs the periodic appearance of hegemonic powers. But the priority of capitalists is never the maintenance, much less …"-Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
2. Lost Worlds of South America
By: Edwin Barnhart
4.15
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
11 hours 54 mins Buried by the centuries on soaring mountain slopes and beneath arid deserts and… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
By: Laurence Gonzales
4.00
Format: None pages,
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate t… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
By: Davíd Carrasco
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
This Very Short Introductionemploys the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. 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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- history
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6. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
By: Buddy Levy
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Conquistadorcomes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest … read more
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7. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
3.30
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often… read more
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8. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
9. The Last Days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more
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10. Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
By: None
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Astrobiology is an exciting new subject, and one, arguably, more interdisciplinary than any other. … read more
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11. The Serpent and the Rainbow
By: Wade Davis
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Hai… read more
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12. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
By: Bartolomé de las Casas , Anthony Pagden , None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. A… read more
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13. Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
By: William Carlsen
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) "Thrilling. ... A captivating history of two men who dramat… read more
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14. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
By: Andrés Reséndez
3.68
Format: None pages,
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15. The Hummingbird's Daughter
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a youn… read more
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16. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
By: Martin Dugard
4.07
Format: 71 pages,
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17. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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18. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
By: Miguel León-Portilla , Lysander Kemp , None
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Until 1959, when this book was published for the first time, the only organized testimony about the… read more
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19. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By: Buddy Levy
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more
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20. Art History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Dana Arnold
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues in the field of a… read more
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21. Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
By: Gary Gutting
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, ov… read more
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22. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
23. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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24. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
25. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
26. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
27. The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
By: Orin Starn
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of gl… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
By: Fernando Cervantes
3.90
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, authoritative history that aims to deepen our understanding of the campaigns and conque… read more
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29. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
30. The Dark Ages 476-918 A.D.
By: Charles Oman
3.92
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
In 476 A.D. the Western Roman Empire fell. Romans would never again rule vast swathes of the wester… read more
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31. Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Vol. I)
By: Kevin H. Siepel
4.44
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The Spanish Conquest: What Really Happened? If your knowledge of the so-called Spanish Conqu… read more
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