Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
By: Andrew Selee
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between…
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1. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
2. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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3. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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4. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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5. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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6. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
7. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
8. Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul
By: Michael Reid
3.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Neither poor enough to evoke Africa's moral crus… read more
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9. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more
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10. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
3.36
Format: 96 pages,
From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, co… read more
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11. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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12. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
13. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
14. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more
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15. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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16. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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17. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- economics
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- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
18. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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19. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
By: Tom Wright
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more
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20. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
21. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
22. Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
By: Reeves Wiedeman
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, which tells the remarkable saga of one of the… read more
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23. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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- american history
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24. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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25. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
By: Carl T. Bergstrom
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more
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"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
26. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- american history
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27. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
28. The Best American Travel Writing 2021
By: Padma Lakshmi
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
“The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in … read more
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29. Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
By: Andrew Selee
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between… read more
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