The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada…
Want to Read $ 14.99"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
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1. Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
By: Zachary Karabell
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of t… read more
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- history
- biography
- egypt
- nonfiction
- science
2. La Primera Guerra Mundial contada para escépticos
By: Juan Eslava Galán
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Unknown Binding
1914. Hace ahora cien años… Europa vivía una plenitud dorada. Los adelantos científicos y técnicos … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
3. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
By: Laney Salisbury , Aly Sujo
3.95
Format: 768 pages,
When the talented but struggling artist John Myatt put a small advert for genuine fakes in Private … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
4. Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes
By: Sakyo Komatsu
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
By: David Damrosch
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- archaeology
- audiobook
6. Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
By: Abdullah II of Jordan
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today. When a dying… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
7. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Toby Wilkinson combines grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconog… read more
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- historical
- egypt
- history
- nonfiction
8. The Decipherment of Linear B
By: John Chadwick
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they wer… read more
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9. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
By: Margalit Fox
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crac… read more
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10. God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible
By: Adam Nicolson
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, … read more
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11. The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
By: Brian Merchant
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk t… read more
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12. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- egypt
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
13. 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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- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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- biography
- egypt
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
15. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more
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- audiobook
- linguistics
- history
- biography
- language
- historical
- egypt
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- science
"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
16. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.06
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. The Earl and the Pharaoh
By: Countess of Carnarvon
3.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Lady Fiona Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discover… read more
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- biography
- historical
- egypt
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- audiobook
18. No tocarás
By: Nuria Pérez
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Tres mujeres excepcionales unidas por sentimientos universales, tres destinos entrelazados. Por la … read more
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19. An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East
By: Levison Wood
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Brit… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
By: Toby Wilkinson
3.97
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptolo… read more
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- history
- historical
- egypt
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- science
21. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- audiobook
"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
22. Elogio de las manos
By: Jesús Carrasco
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Una novela tan extraordinaria como la peripecia de sus protagonistas En el año 2011, el narrador d… read more
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23. Tres periodistas en la revolución de Asturias
By: Manuel Chaves Nogales
3.84
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
La madrugada del 5 de octubre de 1934, animados por una convocatoria de huelga general que fracasar… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
By: Keith Houston
3.87
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped bui… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
25. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
By: Ludovic Slimak
3.69
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more
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- history
- archaeology
- science
26. La península de las casas vacías
By: David Uclés
4.47
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
UNA NOVELA SOBRE TODA LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA EN CLAVE DE REALISMO MÁGICO. La historia de un so… read more
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27. El gran timo de las hadas
By: Félix J. Palma
3.90
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
REGRESA EL MAYOR MAGO LITERARIO CON UN NUEVO Y ESPECTACULAR MUNDO LLENO DE ILUSIÓN Y MISTERIO. Del … read more
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28. Gris
By: Carlos Sisí
3.80
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
El Doctor Chase Ward, el astrofísico más reputado de toda la comunidad científica, recibe una visit… read more
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29. Asesinato en el Richelieu (Spanish Edition)
By: Anita Blackmon
3.77
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
LLEGA ADELAIDE ADAMSUna miss Marple de Arkansas, irónica, artrítica y deslenguada.«Yo, Adelaide Ada… read more
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30. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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31. Donde caiga la flecha
By: Emilia Landaluce
3.47
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Todos creemos saber cómo reaccionaríamos si nos enteráramos de algo terrible. Hasta que nos ocurre.… read more
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