7 must-read geography books like The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities by Zoran Nikolić

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The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities

By: Zoran Nikolić

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. This beau…

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1. Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

By: Tim Marshall

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years … read more

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  • geography
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Night Train

By: Martin Amis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki… read more

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3. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

By: Ian Mortimer

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-160… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.36

Format: 512 pages, ebook

The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. The… read more

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5. Moon Palace

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more

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6. The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)

By: Peter May

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially be… read more

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7. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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8. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • geography
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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12. It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time

By: Astrid Madimba

3.65

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Why is Africa still perceived as a country when there are around 2,000 languages spoken on the cont… read more

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  • geography
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

By: James Vincent

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Attack Warning Red!

By: Julie McDowall

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Shortest History of England

By: James Hawes

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As James Hawes moves through time, from Caesar to Brexit, through conquests, empires and wars, he w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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18. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

By: Gaston Dorren

3.80

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it―only one in five peop… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

By: Frank Dikötter

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defie… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Huge amounts of blood were shed to make and maintain the Soviet Union. Some of it was the blood of idealists, some of thugs and careerists, but most of it was the blood of ordinary people whose main …"

-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

"The Marxist prediction that capitalism would ultimately collapse and be replaced by socialism (Khrushchev’s tactless ‘We will bury you!’) had been a comfort to Soviet Communists as they struggled aga…"

-Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

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21. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

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22. Hoe migratie echt werkt

By: Hein de Haas

4.43

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Migratie-expert Hein de Haas vertelt het ware verhaal over migratie en de effecten ervan. Al jar… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ by Monty Lyman

23. The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ

By: Monty Lyman

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell

24. Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

By: Lewis Dartnell

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speci… read more

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  • geography
  • nonfiction
  • history
"We are as utterly reliant on fire today as were our Paleolithic ancestors who huddled around a campfire; we've just hidden it behind the scenes of the modern world."

-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

"...the iron in your blood not only links you to the ancient stars that created it in their nuclear forge but also to the magnetic shield around our world that protects life on Earth."

-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

"The carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing its level in the atmosphere, which is now 45 per cent higher that prior to the Industrial Revolution."

-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

"Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it …"

-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

Cover of Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz

25. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

By: Carissa Véliz

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

By: Paul Morland

3.72

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made … read more

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  • geography
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
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27. Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo

By: José Luis González Macías

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Sentinelle che si tengono ben salde ai loro scogli, i fari sono veri e propri monumenti ai segreti … read more

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  • travel
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities

By: Zoran Nikolić

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A beautifully presented gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. This beau… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • cartography
  • geography
  • trivia
  • maps
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

29. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

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Cover of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge

30. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps

By: Jonn Elledge

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps … read more

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  • geography
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead

31. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

By: Tim Birkhead

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

23 must-read history books like The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities by Zoran Nikolić

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Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

Tim Marshall

4.03

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Ian Mortimer

3.87

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Ian Mortimer

4.01

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James Hawes

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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Annalee Newitz

3.37

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