American Courage
Fascinating and eloquent, here is the story of America in its own words: gripping first-hand accounts of frontier survival, bravery
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Category: History
Surviving Climate and Chaos
What dinosaurs teach us about survival. What if dinosaurs could help us prepare for the future? In Surviving Climate and Chaos,
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Nothing Random
The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded
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On Fire for God
One part Educated, one part rebuttal to Hillbilly Elegy, On Fire for God explores the ways evangelical Christianity has preyed upon its followers while
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When It’s Darkness on the Delta
For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds
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When Money Dies
The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“brilliant” (Guardian) In 1923, with
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The Pythagorean Universe
What if numbers are not the building blocks of the universe—but reflections of the human mind? For over two thousand
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The Countercurrents of Prehistory
The Rare Genes from History and Basic Haplotype Test of DNA Consultants can produce sharply delineated patterns of genetic matches.
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant,
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Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating audiobook tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen
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