Cities: The First 6,000 Years
By: Monica L. Smith
3.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they hav…
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1. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
By: Eric R. Kandel
4.29
Format: 480 pages,
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2. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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3. Cousin Kate
By: Georgette Heyer
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Kate Malvern, rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, hardly knows what to expect at Staplewood - … read more
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4. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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5. False Colours
By: Georgette Heyer
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The young Earl of Denville was missing. Handsome and eligible as the titled elder of the renowned F… read more
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6. Venetia
By: Georgette Heyer
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
She wasn't looking for love . . . Her beauty rivaled only by her sensibility, Venetia Lanyon is nea… read more
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7. Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch, #7)
By: Paul Doiron
4.22
Format: 649 pages,
In Paul Doiron's Widowmaker, When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bow… read more
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8. Frederica
By: Georgette Heyer
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
LONDON IN "THE SEASON" Frederica Merriville and her three siblings have come to London for the glit… read more
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9. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
10. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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11. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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- history
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
12. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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- history
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13. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
By: Rick Perlstein
4.34
Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover
A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. The Parade
By: Dave Eggers
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far fro… read more
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"No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry."-Dave Eggers, The Parade
15. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
By: Christie Aschwanden
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more
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- science
16. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
17. She Would Be King
By: Wayétu Moore
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s forma… read more
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"Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"This was his mother. This was his poetic lo e, whose fallen shadow broke his spirit as he sprinted with the wind. She was gone."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"How can you leave me?' Maisy had said one night. 'You are my sister now. My flesh. Flesh cannot leave you.' At which Gbessa almost lost her breath. The kindness, the newness, stunned her."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"We did not have books on Emerson. That place where we lost our language, lost ourselves. They told us we had no history but darkness, so they kept the books away for fear we might understand the trut…"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
18. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
By: Christopher Leonard
4.30
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private com… read more
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19. The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
By: Michael Strevens
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
• Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of … read more
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20. Cities: The First 6,000 Years
By: Monica L. Smith
3.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they hav… read more
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- urbanism
- cities
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21. 45 ідей для украінських міст. Та будь-якого іншого міста світу
By: Mikael Colville-Andersen
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Перша книга про післявоєнну відбудову у Європі у двадцять першому столітті. Цю книгу пронизано д… read more
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