17 must-read nonfiction books like The Age of Empires by Robert Aldrich

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The Age of Empires

By: Robert Aldrich

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For more than five hundred years, from the Renaissance until the present, empires in one form or an…

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1. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

By: Philip Pullman

4.10

Format: 465 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, … read more

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"because he's Will"

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

"Tell them stories."

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

"Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too."

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

"Each kiss was nearer to the last one of all."

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

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2. The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

By: Erin Meyer

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is the philosophy of low - context communication in a nutshell: Tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them ,then tell them what you’ve told them."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is where I learned the traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what y…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"You may find yourself reacting defensively when you hear what others have said about the culture you call your own. It isn't true: my culture is not a bit like that. At the risk of pouring oil on the…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

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3. Another Day of Life

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent hi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Jared Diamond

3.93

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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5. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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6. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East

By: James Barr

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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8. Requiem: A Hallucination

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Antonio Tabucchi

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this enchanting and evocative novel, Antonio Tabucchi takes the reader on a dream-like trip to P… read more

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9. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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10. Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

By: Tom Holland

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In AD 900, few would have guessed that the splintering kingdoms of Christendom were candidates for … read more

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11. Men at Arms

By: Evelyn Waugh

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdier… read more

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12. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. De Camino

By: Anya Niewierra

4.00

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In het nieuwe boek van Hebban Thrillerprijs-winnaar Anya Niewierra komt er een duister geheim naar … read more

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14. The Wolf Hunt

By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a… read more

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15. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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16. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

By: Philip Pullman

4.15

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. … read more

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"You going to be a scientist when you grow up?"

-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

"For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do."

-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

"I have told you all the rules I know. If there are rules I have forgotten to mention then they do not matter."

-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."

-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

Cover of Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

19. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

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20. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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21. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

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22. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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23. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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24. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

By: Egill Bjarnason

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today by Travis Elborough

25. Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today

By: Travis Elborough

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Imagine what the world once looked like as you discover places that have disappeared from modern at… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"But deserts, even the driest and least inviting to animals and plants, contain subtle multitudes. And rather like silences (outside of vacuums) and as John Cage demonstrated with his famous 4'33" pie…"

-Travis Elborough, Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today

"Still, while the Old Testament God of Genesis might well have used the sixth day of the week to create all the creatures that lived on dry land, in the contemporary epoch Fridays, surely, are more re…"

-Travis Elborough, Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today

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26. Utópia v Leninovej záhrade: Československá komúna Interhelpo

By: Lukáš Onderčanin

4.60

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Nie je to žiadna fatamorgána – pred očami sa im skutočne črtajú obrysy vysnívaného raja. Ďaleko za … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Ako byť šťastný?

By: Vitalia Bella

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ako byť šťastný? Jednoduchá otázka, no ak sa na to spýtate psychológov a psychologičiek, ich odpove… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe (Unexpected Atlases)

By: Travis Elborough

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world hav… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Úžasná Brazília

By: Zdenko Somorovský

4.71

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

Kniha Úžasná Brazília prostredníctvom cestovateľských reportáží doplnených o kvalitné fotografie be… read more

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30. Taliansko a láska majú 3 spoločné veci - Životný štýl

By: Buona Base

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Sprievodca talianskym životným štýlom, miestami vhodnými na relax, od severu až po juh, ale nielen … read more

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31. The Age of Empires

By: Robert Aldrich

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For more than five hundred years, from the Renaissance until the present, empires in one form or an… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13 best-selling history books like The Age of Empires by Robert Aldrich

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Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None

3.72

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3.93

Transform Your Habits

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James Barr

3.33

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Dan Jones

4.41

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Paul Vidich

3.96

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Mick Herron

4.29

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David Ignatius

4.10

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I.S. Berry

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