Best books in History
The daily bread of the catalog's most curious thinkers. Patrick Collison, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky dominate this category, and the titles they chose reveal that understanding the present always starts with understanding what came before.
From Galileo to Newton
A. Rupert Hall
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The military institutions of the Romans
Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
Sheri Berman
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Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
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After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Jonathan C. Randal
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Reveries on the Art of War
Maurice de Saxe
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Devil's Bargain
Joshua Green
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No Easy Day
Mark Owen
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Days of rage
Bryan Burrough
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Diocletian and the Roman recovery
Stephen Williams
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Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Latin America
Lars Schoultz
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Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
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Of Wolves and Men
Barry Holstun Lopez
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Twelve against the gods
William Bolitho
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Routledge Classic Ethnographies
Marshall Sahlins
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Edison
Matthew Josephson
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Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
Carl Zimmer
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He Was No Coward: The Harry Farr Story
Janet Booth
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert Mcnamara
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Energy and Civilization: A History
Vaclav Smil
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Enriching the Earth
Vaclav Smil
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Plutarch
Plutarch
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Between Serb and Albanian
Miranda Vickers
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