6 Best world history books like Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner

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Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

By: Martin Puchner

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a break…

If you liked the world history plot in Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bakewell's Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • cultural
  • history
  • world history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Bass's Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook
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3. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

Similar categories in Will Cockrell's Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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5. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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6. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

Similar categories in Chris J. Anderson's Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
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8. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

9. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy

10. Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games

By: Marcus du Sautoy

3.64

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

“A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical story… read more

Similar categories in Marcus du Sautoy's Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

By: Salman Rushdie

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a per…"

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go t…"

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

"Christopher came to believe that the people who understood the dangers posed by radical Islam were on the right, that his erstwhile comrades on the left were arranging with one another to miss what s…"

-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

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12. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

By: Anthony Bale

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Bale's A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

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13. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

By: Paco Calvo

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelli… read more

Similar categories in Paco Calvo's Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

By: Paul M.M. Cooper

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more

Similar categories in Paul M.M. Cooper's Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

15. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

By: Caroline Crampton

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir,  A Body Made of Glass is a definit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"If I have to inhabit a fragile meat vessel that could disintegrate at any moment, at least don't make me think about it all the time."

-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

"I wonder if the hypochondriac him or herself is a metaphor, a condensed node of ideas about illness crushed together into one individual. I am pressed between these layers of meaning like a flower pr…"

-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

"Fairy tales and folklore are full of this moment: a potion to be swallowed that will transform or destroy a life....When life is especially difficult or hard, the notion that just a single action cou…"

-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

"Illness is a story we tell about ourselves. The narrative is the connective tissue that joins together the symptoms and perceptions and makes sense of them. It's how impenetrable concepts like death …"

-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

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17. Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals

By: Gary Nabhan

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. All tequilas are mezcals; al… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
Cover of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz

18. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

By: Annalee Newitz

3.99

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky

19. Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

By: Jane Kamensky

3.87

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A portrait of an indelible twentieth-century American life―and a wholly new take on the pleasures a… read more

Similar categories in Jane Kamensky's Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
Cover of Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner

20. Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

By: Martin Puchner

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a break… read more

Similar categories in Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • audiobook
  • cultural
  • art
  • history
  • pop culture
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • anthropology
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21. See What You're Missing

By: Will Gompertz

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Art can amaze us into changing our minds. This remarkable book teaches us how' En Devlin Artists … read more

Similar categories in Will Gompertz's See What You're Missing book and Martin Puchner's Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history

17 best-selling audiobook books like Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner

Transform Your Habits

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Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Transform Your Habits

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Gary J. Bass

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Transform Your Habits

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4.00

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19 Top history books like Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky

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Erik Larson

4.24

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Cynthia Carr

4.27

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Shannon Reed

3.71

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Adam Higginbotham

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