Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
By: Richard Rhodes
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb:the story of the entire pos…
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1. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
By: Eric Schlosser
4.26
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlos… read more
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2. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
By: Joe Studwell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more
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3. The Punic Wars
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.19
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An impressive new historian of Roman warfare--highly praised by John Keegan--has written a thorough… read more
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4. 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
5. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
By: Annie Jacobsen
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more
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6. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
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"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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7. 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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"...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
8. The First World War
By: John Keegan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more
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9. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
By: Richard Rhodes
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb:the story of the entire pos… read more
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10. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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11. The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
By: Richard Preston
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone comes an amazing account of scientific and spiritual… read more
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12. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
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In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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13. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
By: Max Hastings
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more
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14. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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15. Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
By: Eric Metaxas
3.96
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16. Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
By: None
4.16
Format: 114 pages,
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17. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
By: None
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Normal Accidentsanalyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conv… read more
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18. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
19. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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21. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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4.06
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
22. Nuclear War: A Scenario
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4.47
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
23. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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24. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
By: Kevin Kelly
4.23
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“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wi… read more
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"The end is almost always the beginning of something better."-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
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4.21
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27. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
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3.82
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28. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
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4.13
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29. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
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"Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo cham…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
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"The technological audacity of the Apollo program, with it's largely symbolic payload, was also sinking into the trivialisation that Guy Debord had identified the decade before as the underside of med…"-Erik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
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31. Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
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