Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
By: Paul Preston
4.07
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new his…
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1. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
By: Misha Glenny
4.09
Format: 752 pages, Paperback
This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more
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- european history
- nonfiction
- history
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2. Seeing
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote.… read more
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3. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more
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4. Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia
By: Matthew Dennison
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, … read more
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5. 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.61
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most… read more
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"Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism"-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
"It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fram…"-Arthur C. Clarke, 2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
6. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more
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7. The Noise of Time
By: Julian Barnes
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more
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8. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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9. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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10. 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
"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
11. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
By: Calder Walton
4.30
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
12. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"True development does not respect comfort."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
13. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
14. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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15. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
By: Mick Herron
4.37
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more
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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
16. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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- european history
- nonfiction
- history
- war
17. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- history
- european history
18. Insolación
By: Emilia Pardo Bazán
3.82
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Emilia Pardo Bazán publica Insolación cuando ya había sido reconocida como gran novelista tras el é… read more
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"Grandes dolores de corazón y propósitos de la enmienda suelen quedarse entre las mantas."-Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolación
"¿Hay entre nosotros, dos minutos después, algún vínculo que no existía dos minutos antes?"-Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolación
"¡Sentía un abatimiento grande, agujetas,cansancio, y al mismo tiempo una excitación, unas ganas de echar a andar, de huir de si misma, de no verse ni oirse!"-Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolación
"Sale a relucir aquello de las tres fieras, toro, torero y público; la primera, que se deja matar porque no tiene más remedio; la segunda, que cobra por matar; la tercera, que paga para que maten, de …"-Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolación
19. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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- history
- war
20. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
By: Lucy Worsley
4.19
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black?… read more
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"She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
"Surely Victoria's mental health suffered because all the men around her expected it to."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
"The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
"With Bertie's illness, Victoria's return to her best self, the self she had lost in Albert, had begun."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
21. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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22. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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- history
23. November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
By: Peter Englund
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who l… read more
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24. Purgatorio
By: Jon Sistiaga
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
«¿Nunca te has preguntado si lo que hicimos estuvo mal y si todavía estemos a tiempo de repararlo?E… read more
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25. La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
By: Juan José Millás
4.04
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Tras la extraordinaria acogida de La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal, el tándem más bri… read more
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26. El corto verano de la anarquía: Vida y muerte de Buenaventura Durruti
By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
El volumen empieza con un prólogo, «Los funerales», y acaba con un capítulo sobre «La posteridad». … read more
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- spain
- spanish civil war
- history
- nonfiction
"Cuando la burguesía ve huir el poder de sus manos, recurre al fascismo para mantenerse. Buenaventura Durruti"-Hans Magnus Enzensberger, El corto verano de la anarquía: Vida y muerte de Buenaventura Durruti
"Durruti le contestó duramente: "Toma este ejemplo: cuando mi mujer va a trabajar yo limpio la casa, hago las camas y preparo la comida. Además baño a la niña y la visto. Si crees que un anarquista ti…"-Hans Magnus Enzensberger, El corto verano de la anarquía: Vida y muerte de Buenaventura Durruti
"(...) una victoria electoral de la izquierda habría inducido a los fascistas a tratar de subir al poder mediante el habitual golpe de Estado militar. En todo caso habría que enfrentarse a ellos con l…"-Hans Magnus Enzensberger, El corto verano de la anarquía: Vida y muerte de Buenaventura Durruti
"Estos revolucionarios de otros tiempos han envejecido, pero no parecen cansados. Ignoran lo que es la irreflexión. Su moral es silenciosa, pero no permite la ambigüedad. Están familiarizados con la v…"-Hans Magnus Enzensberger, El corto verano de la anarquía: Vida y muerte de Buenaventura Durruti
27. Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
By: Sarah Watling
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An account of extraordinary artists and activists whose determination to live - and to create - wit… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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28. The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
By: Franz Borkenau
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"...not only a model of what the study of revolution should be, but one of the best books ever publ… read more
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- spanish civil war
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- nonfiction
29. Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
By: Paul Preston
4.07
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new his… read more
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- history
- spain
- war
- nonfiction
- european history
30. La conciencia contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
By: Juan José Millás
3.92
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
EL FENÓMENO LITERARIO DE LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS Vuelve el tándem más exitoso para abordar el mayor miste… read more
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31. 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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