The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus
By: Gunnar Broberg
3.19
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work Carl…
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1. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- science
2. The Knight Templar (The Crusades Trilogy, #2)
By: Jan Guillou
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
De la bataille de Montgisard (1177) au massacre de Saint-Jean d'Acre (1191), cette epopee historiqu… read more
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3. Kärleken till livet
By: Helena von Zweigbergk , Marie Fredriksson
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
"Jag vill bara saga som det ar. Inget tjafs. Bara enkelt rakt pa som det har varit". Med de orden p… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1)
By: Jan Guillou , Anna Paterson
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an ar… read more
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5. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more
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6. Three Bags Full
By: Anthea Bell , Leonie Swann
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determin… read more
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7. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
8. Making It So
By: Patrick Stewart
4.33
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
10. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
11. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- biology
- history
- nonfiction
- science
12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- biology
- history
- nonfiction
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
13. Jävla karlar
By: Andrev Walden
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more
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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar
14. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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- biology
- history
- nonfiction
- science
15. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
16. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
By: Philippa Langley
3.67
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
17. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
18. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
19. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
20. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.33
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrate… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
21. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
22. När ingen lyssnar
By: Diamant Salihu
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
I en sömnig fransk småstad inleds en osannolik kedja av händelser som ska förändra spelreglerna i k… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
By: Elizabeth Varon
4.15
Format: 516 pages, ebook
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
24. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
25. Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
By: Katrine Marçal
3.89
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Nie wyciosał cię swoim toporem Odyn, nie jesteś hydrauliczną rzeźbą, centralą telefoniczną ani komputerem. Wypluł cię skurcz krwawej macicy twojej matki."-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
"The Viking gods didn't whittle you with an axe. You are no hydraulic statue, telephone exchange or computer. You came, kicking and screaming, out of a pulsating, blood-red womb."-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
"Jobless Jack sits in his damp basement watching YouTube videos of Jordan Peterson, while Mary goes on a Brené Brown course on ‘vulnerability as a leadership skill’. Welcome to the second machine age!"-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
"Witchcraft stemmed from woman’s insatiable lust, he imagined. Her vagina just couldn’t get enough. Just look at its form! It was these deeply insalubrious desires that supposedly put woman in contact…"-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
26. The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
By: Paul Halpern
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
27. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
By: Anthony Bale
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
28. Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
By: Jon Grinspan
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The propulsive story of the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement, an overlooked but pivotal facto… read more
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- history
29. Rebellen (Vasa, #1)
By: Gustaf Skördeman
3.78
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
Året är 1518, den unge Gustav Eriksson Vasa är en av de unga männen runt Sten Sture. Men, han har s… read more
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30. The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus
By: Gunnar Broberg
3.19
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work Carl… read more
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- biography
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
31. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
