Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier
By: Heriberto Araújo
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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1. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
2. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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3. 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
4. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
By: Niall Ferguson , Dambisa Moyo
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from… read more
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5. Primeval and Other Times
By: Olga Tokarczuk , Antonia Lloyd-Jones
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Tokarczuk's third novel, Primeval and Other Timeswas awarded the Koscielski Foundation Prize in 199… read more
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6. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
7. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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8. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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9. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
By: Michael Wejchert
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more
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10. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
11. Breathe: A Life in Flow
By: Rickson Gracie
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
*An instant New York Times bestseller, USA Today bestseller, and Wall Street Journal bestseller… read more
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"Shattering disappointments require you to be radically honest with yourself, a process that can be painful but is absolutely necessary."-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
"If I'm fighting for money, I'll stop hitting you when you or the referee asks me to. If we are fighting for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it."-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
"Today, 98 percent of MMA fans have never stepped into the cage, or even onto the mat, much less felt their noses break or tendons pop. Their relationship with violence is virtual. MMA is just somethi…"-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
"Today, it is possible to get a Jiu Jitsu black belt without knowing self-defense or even getting into a real fight. This was impossible during the 1970s and 1980s. Because my father and uncle loudly …"-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
12. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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13. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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14. Sink: A Memoir
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous h… read more
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15. Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
By: Lyndsie Bourgon
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environm… read more
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"Organizations like the World Bank and Interpol have estimated that the global scale of illegal logging generates somewhere between $51 billion and $157 billion annually. Thirty percent of the world's…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Scientists have stumbled on the remains of ancient woods in this way, locating root systems that continue to support the forest long after the body of the tree has disappeared. In this sense the tree…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Forest sociologist Robert Lee says city dwellers are more likely to feel guilt toward nature, which he attributes to disconnection from nature rather than empathy toward it: "They are very likely to …"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
"Automation, globalization, and increased education requirements - compounded by failures in government and institutions - have given rise to a generation of disconnected and fearful people. The numbe…"-Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
16. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
By: Nathalia Holt
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more
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"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
17. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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18. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
By: Dorothy A. Brown
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more
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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
19. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
By: Vicki Sokolik
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman … read more
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20. Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier
By: Heriberto Araújo
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“Gripping. … Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the cultu… read more
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21. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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