Migrants: The Story of Us All
By: Sam Miller
4.21
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
By: Gerard Russell
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distincti… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
By: Grant Snider
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more
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- nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
3. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
4. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
8. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
9. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
By: Mark Galeotti
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
By: Małgorzata Rejmer
4.55
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Błoto słodsze niż miód to opowieść o kraju udręczonym terrorem Envera Hoxhy, dyktatora, który po ze… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Bo partia znaczyła więcej niż Bóg, Bóg nie istniał. A nawet jeśli istniał, to był wszechmocny tylko w teorii, a patia była wszechmocna w praktyce. Bóg nie potrafił zniszczyć partii, ale partia potraf…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
"Cierpieć w stopniu znikomym to jakby nie cierpieć wcale, to właściwie poniekąd cieszyć się ze śmierci – zaleca się zatem kilka lat przymusowego odosobnienia, by osobnik reakcyjny mógł w spokoju przem…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
"Albański komunizm był jak twierdza, z której murów codziennie odpadało kilka kamieni. Albo jak podupadła drewniana chałupa z przegniłym dachem, pleśnią na ścianach i zalanymi fundamentami, która, o d…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
"Pewnego razu zdumieni mieszkańcy Szkodry ujrzeli przy głównej ulicy nowy, zupełnie niezwykły sklep, pełen słodyczy, owoców i od lat niewidzianych smakołyków. Zaraz zebrał się tłum, ale na rozkaz poli…"-Małgorzata Rejmer, Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii
11. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
12. A Dictator Calls
By: Ismail Kadare
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more
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"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls
13. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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- nonfiction
14. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
15. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
17. Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
By: Christopher Blattman
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“ Why We Fight reflects Blattman’s expertise in economics, political science, and history… Blattma… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
By: Kenneth Cukier
3.56
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The essential tool that will enable humanity to find the best way through a forest of looming probl… read more
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- nonfiction
19. The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family
By: Nelly Lahoud
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder—told through the words of Bin Lade… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. 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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- nonfiction
21. Migrants: The Story of Us All
By: Sam Miller
4.21
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind’s urge… read more
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