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.
The golden trade of the Moors
E. W. Bovill
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Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan Mechner
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Ministry of Illusion
Eric Rentschler
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Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime
Stephen F. Williams
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The Rogue's March
Peter F. Stevens
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Spanish cockpit : an eye-witness account of the political and social conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
Franz Borkenau
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The stopwatch gang
Greg Weston
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Thrown
Kerry Howley
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East Timor
John G. Taylor
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Titan II
David Stumpf
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Toussaint Louverture
Philippe Girard
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Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
Jan Morris
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Ulysses S. Grant
Brooks D. Simpson
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Один день Ивана Денисовича
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Spy among Friends
Ben Macintyre
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A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
Alexander J. Field Ph.D.
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Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy D. Popkin
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A Soldier of the Great War
Mark Helprin
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An apology for the builder; or, a discourse shewing the cause and effects of the increase of building
Nicholas Barbon
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Culture of Growth
Joel Mokyr
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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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