The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560 - 1720
By: Dagomar deGroot
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age…
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1. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
By: Marsha L. Weisiger
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country" offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Dine)… read more
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2. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
By: Roger D. Abrahams , Victor Turner , Alfred Harris
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu i… read more
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3. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
By: Geoffrey Parker
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth … read more
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4. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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5. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
By: None
3.97
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History Winner of the Merid… read more
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6. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
By: Steven Lee Myers
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
"A riveting, immensely detailed biography of Putin that explains in full-bodied, almost Shakespeari… read more
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7. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
By: Pearl S. Buck
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more
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8. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
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9. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
By: John M. Barry
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, move… read more
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10. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
11. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- european history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
12. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
13. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
14. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
15. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
By: Violet Moller
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledg… read more
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"The history of ideas is not constrained by boundaries of culture, religion or politics and, in order to fully appreciate it, a more far-reaching approach is needed."-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
"In 771, a traveller arrived in the city [Baghdad] with a copy of a work of Hindu astronomy called the Siddhanta (The Opening of the Universe), by the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668). Unlik…"-Violet Moller, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
16. Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
By: Kyle Harper
4.17
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our… read more
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17. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
By: Adam Tooze
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more
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"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
18. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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19. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more
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20. People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
By: Robert Michael Morrissey
4.38
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from th… read more
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21. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi… read more
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22. The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Joshua L. Reid
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identi… read more
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23. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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24. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
By: Sam White
3.97
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temp… read more
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25. Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
By: Brian McCammack
3.61
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environm… read more
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26. The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560 - 1720
By: Dagomar deGroot
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age… read more
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