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Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl

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Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

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The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.

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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

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The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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David Leavitt

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Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

Quackery
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Lydia Kang

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A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.

Stuff Matters
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Mark Miodownik

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Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

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Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Alexander the Great
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The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.

Uncommon Grounds
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Mark Pendergrast

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The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

The Games
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David Goldblatt

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A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Midnight in Chernobyl
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Adam Higginbotham

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The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.

The Children of Ash and Elm
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Neil Price

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A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.

Muhammad
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Martin Lings

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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
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Adam Rutherford

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The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.

Splash!
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10,000 Years of Swimming. Hachette Books. 2020.

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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.

The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene

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The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

Economics
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Ha-Joon Chang

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The User’s Guide. Pelican, 2014.

Crisis in the Eurozone
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Costas Lapavitsas

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Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.

Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl

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Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

How Carrots Won the Trojan War
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Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.

The World History of Animation
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Stephen Cavalier

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The World History of Animation. Quarto Publishing, 2011.

Blame It on the Rain
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Laura Lee

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How the Weather Has Changed History. HarperCollins, 2006.

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A Splendid Exchange
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William J. Bernstein

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How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.

Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl

14 min read·
5.0

Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

Empress
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Ruby Lal

18 min read·
5.0

The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

Catch Me If You Can
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Frank Abagnale

12 min read·
5.0

The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.

Pandemic
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Sonia Shah

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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Einstein
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Walter Isaacson

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His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Back Channel to Cuba
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Peter Kornbluh

18 min read·
5.0

The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

The Soul of a Woman
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Isabel Allende

16 min read·
5.0

On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.

How Carrots Won the Trojan War
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Rebecca Rupp

19 min read·
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Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.

The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene

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The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

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The Joy of Missing Out

Tanya Dalton

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A guide to clarifying what is important to you, prioritizing your time, and simplifying your tasks, in order to overcome stress and boost productivity in your life.

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