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.
My years with General Motors
Alfred Sloan
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The death and life of great American cities
Jane Jacobs
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Into Thin Air Flr
Jon Krakauer
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The Road To Wigan Pier
George Orwell
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Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
John M. Allegro
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Narrow Corridor
Daron Acemoglu
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The Rape Of Nanking
Iris Chang
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Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The great code
Northrop Frye
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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The Prize
Daniel Yergin
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Infinite Powers
Steven Strogatz
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Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
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Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
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Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama
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Founders
Jimmy Soni
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The innovators
Walter Isaacson
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Wright Brothers
David McCullough
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
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Plagues And Peoples
William McNeill
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Accidental Presidents
Jared Cohen
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Newton's principia
Isaac Newton
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Beyond all pity
Carolina Maria de Jesus
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
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