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  • Guns, Germs and Steel

    by Jared Diamond July 17, 2005 History

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    4.5 stars

    6,732 ratings

    Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998
    Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its developm...

  • Hagakure

    by Alexander Bennett and Tsunetomo Yamamoto May 27, 2014 History

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    4.8 stars

    795 ratings

    The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bu...

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    by J.D. Vance May 1, 2018 History

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    4.5 stars

    25,964 ratings

    THE Number 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLO...

  • Homo Deus

    by Yuval Noah Harari September 4, 2018 History

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    4.6 stars

    12,526 ratings

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Yuval Noah Harari, author of ...

  • How The Scots Invented the Modern World

    by Arthur Herman January 1, 2001 History

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    4.6 stars

    910 ratings

    How the Scots Invented the Modrern World was a veritable hardcover smash, selling more than 48,000 copies in five printings and...

  • How to Change Your Mind

    by Michael Pollan May 14, 2019 History

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    4.7 stars

    4,223 ratings

    “Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times

    A Number 1 New York Times Bestseller, ...

  • Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages

    by Lesley Smith November 1, 2003 History

    The variety of experience available to medieval scholars and the vitality of medieval thought are both reflected in this collec...

  • Keeping At It

    by Paul Volcker October 30, 2018 History

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    4.5 stars

    173 ratings

    The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration w...

  • Letters from a Stoic

    by Seneca September 9, 2021 History

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    4.7 stars

    2,459 ratings

    World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now pac...

  • Liar's Poker

    by Michael Lewis October 17, 1989 History

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    4.5 stars

    2,549 ratings

    The bestselling and hilarious book that blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of ...

  • Lincoln

    by David Herbert Donald November 5, 1996 History

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    4.6 stars

    865 ratings

    A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s l...

  • Lincoln at Gettysburg

    by Garry Wills November 14, 2006 History

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    4.4 stars

    169 ratings

    In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech ...

  • Living within Limits

    by Garrett Hardin April 22, 1993 History

    "We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such start...

  • Lost in Shangri-La

    by Mitchell Zuckoff April 24, 2012 History

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    4.4 stars

    2,367 ratings

    A New York Times bestseller, the extraordinary World War II mission to rescue survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an ...

  • Man's Search for Meaning The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust

    by Viktor E. Frankl January 1, 2011 History

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    4.7 stars

    35,381 ratings

    A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant toda...

  • Merchants of Truth

    by Jill Abramson February 5, 2019 History

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    3.9 stars

    108 ratings

    The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Ed...

  • Michael Jordan

    by May 19, 2015 History

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    4.8 stars

    1,220 ratings

    The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they...

  • Modern Times Revised Edition

    by Paul Johnson August 7, 2001 History

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    4.6 stars

    322 ratings

    Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, this bestselling history is now...

  • My Brother Ron

    by Clayton E. Cramer June 28, 2012 History

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    4.4 stars

    46 ratings

    America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destruc...

  • My Life on the Road

    by Gloria Steinem August 23, 2016 History

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    4.6 stars

    1,190 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ...

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