Insects: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Simon Leather
3.72
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
To date, more than a million insect species have been described, with probably at least another 5-8…
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1. Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
3.83
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more
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"Always wanting another man than your own."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"But no one came. Because no one ever does."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
2. 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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3. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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4. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
By: Barbara Oakley
1.80
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking… read more
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5. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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6. Children of Time
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more
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7. How Jesus Became God:
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Audiobook
Twenty-four lectures that parallel the book by the same title. The early Christian claim that Jesus… read more
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8. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
10. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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11. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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12. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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13. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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14. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
15. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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16. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
17. Creation Stories of the Ancient World
By: Joseph Lam
3.90
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
Length: 4 hours and 57 minutes Creation stories, found within many ancient cultures, are traditi… read more
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18. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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19. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
By: Richard Hanania
3.87
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in th… read more
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20. The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
By: George McGavin
4.18
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone.They outn… read more
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21. Insects: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Simon Leather
3.72
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
To date, more than a million insect species have been described, with probably at least another 5-8… read more
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