Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
By: Graham Farmelo
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing…
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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
2. Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars f… read more
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"[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"Wherever you go, there we are. It wasn't true. But it made him feel better. That was what words could do."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it— it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That’s po…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecr…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
3. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more
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"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
4. The Punic Wars
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.19
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thorough… read more
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5. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
6. From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
By: George C. Herring
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in… read more
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7. His Excellency: George Washington
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the e… read more
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9. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
By: Richard Rhodes
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb:the story of the entire pos… read more
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10. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
By: Richard D. White Jr.
3.80
Format: None pages,
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11. Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II
By: None
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of America's most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greate… read more
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12. Caesar: Life of a Colossus
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.22
Format: 583 pages, Hardcover
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only… read more
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"Caesar was a serial seducer of married women."-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
"Pompey contented himself with repulsing the attack and made no attempt to assault Caesar's line. This was widely felt to have been a mistake... and Caesar declared that the enemy 'would have won toda…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus
13. Frederick the Great: A Military History
By: None
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes an… read more
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14. The Peloponnesian War
By: Donald Kagan
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was… read more
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15. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more
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16. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
By: James M. McPherson
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the represented only a small per… read more
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17. Einstein: His Life and Universe
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more
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18. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more
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19. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more
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20. Personal Memoirs
By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more
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21. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Team of Rivals, captures the Progr… read more
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22. The Nix
By: Nathan Hill
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and ho… read more
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23. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By: Walter Isaacson
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people k… read more
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24. Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
By: Michael Benson
3.97
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Goodreads Top Nonfiction of 2022 The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the… read more
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25. The Last Days of Stalin
By: Joshua Rubenstein
3.78
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin's last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.J… read more
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26. Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
By: Joshua Zeitz
4.01
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary… read more
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27. The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich
By: Daniel P. Bolger
4.12
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose… read more
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28. Infernum
By: Jayson Adams
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A WEAPON OF UNIMAGINABLE POWER. A DESPERATE MISSION TO THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY. MANKIND'S FATE HAN… read more
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29. Berlin 1936: Fascism, Fear, and Triumph Set Against Hitler's Olympic Games
By: Oliver Hilmes
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This short book takes us through the sixteen days in August 1936 when the Olympic Games were staged… read more
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30. Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
By: Graham Farmelo
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing… read more
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