A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
By: Jonn Elledge
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps …
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1. Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
By: Simon Kuper
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death … read more
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2. 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
3. The Shortest History of Germany
By: James Hawes
3.72
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more
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"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany
4. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)
By: Andrey Kurkov
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more
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5. The World: A Family History of Humanity
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.00
Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more
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6. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… read more
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7. Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
By: Katherine Pangonis
3.88
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has forme… read more
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8. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
By: Ernest Scheyder
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more
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9. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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10. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
By: Sam Freedman
4.50
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more
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"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
11. Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
By: Lewis Baston
4.32
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
'A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer… read more
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12. The Wood at Midwinter
By: Susanna Clarke
3.73
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more
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13. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
By: Jonn Elledge
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps … read more
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- geography
14. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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15. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
By: Dan Jones
4.61
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unpa… read more
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16. Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
By: Paulina Rowińska
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote… read more
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17. Padawan's Pride (Star Wars)
By: Bryan Q. Miller
3.79
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker star in this thrilling galactic adventu… read more
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18. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By: William Dalrymple
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more
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19. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
By: Kate Conger
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time … read more
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20. The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
By: Adrian Bliss
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side charac… read more
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21. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
By: Stephen Fry
4.42
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more
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