At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family…
Want to Read $ 14.99"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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1. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- microhistory
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2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more
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- science
- humor
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- audiobook
3. 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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- nonfiction
- science
"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
4. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
5. A Turn In The South
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part o… read more
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6. The Broken Word
By: Adam Foulds
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary poetic sequence that animates and illuminates the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the… read more
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7. A History of the Wife
By: Marilyn Yalom
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A History of the Wifeweaves a complex tapestry as it outlines the roles, customs, and cultural posi… read more
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8. A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)
By: Simon Schama
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of… read more
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9. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
10. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
11. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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12. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
13. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
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14. The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
By: Nancy Omeara
4.33
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
Tired of the "them or us" politics that the Democrats and Republicans are pushing down our throats?… read more
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"It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn from history before it happens."-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"I wheeled and dealed with leaders from all over the world on behalf of the American people. In fact, my favorite headline from Washington Speaks magazine was “She Walks, She Talks, She Negotiates"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"Educate not Legislate Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Bel…"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
15. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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16. Le Siècle des dictateurs
By: Olivier Guez
3.70
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
Les maudits de l'histoire" Il est remarquable que la dictature soit à présent contagieuse, comme le… read more
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17. The Romanians, 1774-1866
By: Keith Hitchins
4.31
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
This original and ground-breaking work examines the building of the European nation which became Ro… read more
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18. Alfabetul bucatelor. Povestiri cu miez gustos cuprinzând rețete românești reinventate sau de la străini împrumutate
By: Vlad Macri
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Îmbinând gastronomia cu memorialistica, într-un stil spumos şi ludic, condimentat cu erudite excurs… read more
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19. Storia stupefacente della scienza: Hashish, ketamina e funghi da Avicenna a Oliver Sacks (Italian Edition)
By: Alessandro Paolucci
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Eretici, irresponsabili, gli eroi di questa Storia stupefacente della scienza di Alessandro Paoluc… read more
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20. Die Unsichtbaren: Wie Geheimagentinnen die deutsche Geschichte geprägt haben
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4.00
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21. yellow wood
By: Minnie Darke
3.73
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
At twenty-two, free-spirited Amber Farrow has no concerns beyond finishing her final year of nursin… read more
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