History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
Asperger's Children
The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
History
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Tacitus' Annals
History
The Sleepwalkers
How Europe Went to War in 1914
History
World War I
War
Complexity
The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Science
Philosophy
Economics
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
History
Sociology
Politics
How the World Thinks
A Global History of Philosophy
Philosophy
History
Religion
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
History
American History
Politics
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
India
Book Club
History
We Will Be Jaguars
A Memoir of My People
Memoir
Indigenous
History
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
History
Politics
American History
The Coming of the Third Reich
History
World War II
Germany
Confident Women
Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
True Crime
History
Crime
Everybody Wins
Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made
History
Games
Gaming
Never Caught
The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
History
Biography
American History
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
America and the World in the Free Market Era
Politics
History
Economics
How to Test Negative for Stupid
And Why Washington Never Will
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Arguably
Selected Essays
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
The Secret of Scent
Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
Science
History
Biology
Dark Renaissance
The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
History
Biography
Shakespeare
A Vitória da Razão
Como o Cristianismo Levou à Liberdade, ao Capitalismo e ao Sucesso do Ocidente
History
Religion
Christianity
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Politics
History
Philosophy
Magellan
History
Biography
Travel
The Secret Life of the Universe
An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
Science
Astronomy
Space
All Consuming
Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Food
History
Essays
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
History
Politics
American History
The White Album
Essays
Memoir
Classics
Women's Work
The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
History
Feminism
Womens
The South Was Right!
History
Civil War
American History
A Black Women's History of the United States
History
Feminism
Race
The Big Sort
Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Politics
Sociology
History
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
Off the Edge
Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
History
Politics
Psychology
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
History
American History
Politics
There Will Be Fire
Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
History
Ireland
Politics
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Babylon
Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
History
Ancient History
Middle East
Smoke and Ashes
A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
History
China
India
Estudios sobre el desarrollo del capitalismo
Economics
History
Sociology
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
History
Classics
Ancient History
Prime Obsession
Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Mathematics
Science
History
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
The Notebook
A History of Thinking on Paper
History
Writing
Books About Books
The Social Conquest of Earth
Science
History
Biology
Buddhism
A Very Short Introduction
Religion
Buddhism
Philosophy
Strongmen
Mussolini to the Present
History
Politics
Biography
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
Politics
Philosophy
Race
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
History
Adventure
Survival
Māori History
A Captivating Guide to the History of the Indigenous Polynesian People of New Zealand
History
There Was and There Was Not
A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
History
Memoir
Travel
After the Fall
The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made
Politics
History
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