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 Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
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Kennedy's quest for victory
Thomas G. Paterson
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The Quest for El Cid
Richard Fletcher
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Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
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The House of the Rothschild
Niall Ferguson
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Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Immortality Key
Brian C. Muraresku
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The CIA, a forgotten history
William Blum
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The CIA and American Democracy
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
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Book Reading : the 99% Invisible City Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt LOGBOOK
Roman Mars
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The Ancient City
Peter Connolly
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Ancient City
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
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City of the Century
Donald L. Miller
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The city in history
Lewis Mumford
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The city that became safe
Franklin E. Zimring
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The White Company
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Iran-Contra Connection
Jane Hunter
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The Federalist; or, The new Constitution
James Madison
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Scramble for Africa
Thomas Pakenham
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The crisis of Islam
Bernard Lewis
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
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The Discovery of the Unconscious
Henri F. Ellenberger
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Enlightened Economy
Joel Mokyr
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