Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History
By: Hugh Williams
3.73
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Galápagos
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages,
Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more
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2. Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
By: Faith Sullivan
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Throughout her life, Nell Stillman has struggled to find meaning in an increasingly chaotic world. … read more
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3. Alexander the Great: Lessons from History's Undefeated General
By: Bill Yenne , Wesley K. Clark
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When the Oracle of Delphi told Alexander the Great that he was invincible, it was right. The son o… read more
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4. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
5. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
By: David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly
3.37
Format: None pages, ebook
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fasci… read more
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6. Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America
By: Ivan Doig
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through t… read more
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7. The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
By: Daniel Silva
4.00
Format: 477 pages, Kindle Edition
From Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed number one New York Times best-selling author, com… read more
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"Intentionally rude and vulgar, he took pleasure in the discomfort of others."-Daniel Silva, The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
"Russia will never be a democracy again, Allon. We cannot live as normal people."-Daniel Silva, The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
"You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine."-Daniel Silva, The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
"A politically divided and destabilized America - an America drifting toward white nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism - will pose no challenge (...). Page 467."-Daniel Silva, The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
8. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
9. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.94
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more
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10. Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
By: Mitch Albom
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall fo… read more
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"What we carry defines who we are and the effort we make is our legacy."-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
"But none of us are assured of tomorrow. It's what we do with today that makes an impact."-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
"Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it."-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
"Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it."-Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
11. A Silent Death
By: Peter May
4.05
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS… read more
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12. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By: John Green
4.36
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fict… read more
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"We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"I...took some pride in 'not fulfilling my potential,' in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn't actually have that much potential."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of."-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
"I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of iso…"-John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
13. Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia
By: Bernard Ollivier
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as … read more
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14. Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History
By: Hugh Williams
3.73
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?In … read more
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