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.
Cultural History of Physics
Károly Simonyi
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A history of the theory of investments
Mark Rubinstein
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Imperial Rome
Moses Hadas
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A Seperate Peace
John Knowles
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A preponderance of power
Melvyn P. Leffler
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Vast Machine
Paul N. Edwards
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Unit 731
Hal Gold
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Unlocking the Gates
Taylor Walsh
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Cows, pigs, wars & witches : the riddles of culture
Marvin Harris
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Vaccine
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Regional Advantage
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Harvard Classics; Volume 12
Plutarch
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
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Viet Cong
Douglas Pike
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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War Nerd
Gary Brecher
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Warlight
Michael Ondaatje
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Washington
Ron Chernow
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
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What the dormouse said--
John Markoff
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Wing Leader
Johnnie Johnson
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
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