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Yuval Noah Harari

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our fo…

Bernard Cornwell

The first novel in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories, following Uhtred of Bebbanburg through the wars between the Danes and Alfred the Great's Wessex. Historically careful, fast, an…

Marcus Aurelius

The "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions,…

Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill Corrie ten Boom

This 35th anniversary edition of a bestselling book recounts Corrie tenBoom's horrific experiences in Hitler's concentration camps, explains how she survived, and offers hope throu…

Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen Ambrose follows Easy Company of the 101st Airborne from training through the D-Day landings to the end of the war in Europe. Built on interviews with the surviving veterans…

Yuval Noah Harari

From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary follow-up that explores the future of the human species. Humans today e…

Walter Isaacson

The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker "Vigorous, insig…

Isabel Wilkerson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF TH…

David McCullough

"David McCullough once again tells a dramatic story of people and technology, this time about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright"--P…

Jared Diamond

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, rather than the reverse? Jared Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology be…

Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien's modern Vietnam classic, a sequence of linked short stories that blurs the line between fiction and memoir as it follows Alpha Company through the war and after. The t…

Yuval Noah Harari

In diesem epochalen Werk erzählt Yuval Noah Harari die Geschichte der Menschheit von den frühesten Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Er zeigt, wie der Homo sapiens die Erde beherrscht…

G. Edward Griffin

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirror and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, …

translated by Robert Fagles Homer

Dating to the ninth century BCE, Homer's timeless poem still vividly captures the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with one another's fates on the fields of Troy. Fagle…

Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield's classic novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, told from the perspective of a helot squire who survives the battle. The book put the 300 Spartans back into the pop…

John Kelly

La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five millio…

Mary Beard

Mary Beard takes the reader through the first thousand years of Roman history, from the legendary founding of the city to the Caracalla edict of 212 CE that granted citizenship to …

Tom Holland

'The bloodstained drama of the last decades of the Roman republic... is told afresh with tremendous wit, narrative verve and insight' 'I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Holland not …

Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman

Chomsky and Herman argue that the American mass media functions as a propaganda system through structural incentives rather than conspiracy, demonstrating their model with systemat…

Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre's authoritative account of the Cambridge Five spy ring and the long deception of Kim Philby inside MI6, drawing on recently declassified MI5 and MI6 files.