The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Peter Thonemann
3.67
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all…
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1. Eaters of the Dead
By: Michael Crichton
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back… read more
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"تتوقف الأشياء الغربية عن أن تكون كذلك بفعل التكرار"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition."-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
3. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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5. The Persian Expedition
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell
4.18
Format: None pages,
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more
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6. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.20
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more
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"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)
7. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
8. Men Without Women
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.60
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short ficti… read more
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"The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning."-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
9. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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10. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
11. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
12. Legends of Alexander the Great
By: Richard Stoneman
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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13. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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14. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
15. 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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16. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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17. Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
By: Paul Cartledge
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Mr. Cartledge’s command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciat… read more
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18. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Rachel Chrastil
3.84
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more
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19. The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Peter Thonemann
3.67
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all… read more
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