Ancient Civilizations
The empires and cultures that laid the foundations of the modern world
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Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Frank Abagnale
The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.
Sonia Shah
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
William M. LeoGrande
The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Nate Pedersen
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Tania Gergel
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
Neil Price
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
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Adam Rutherford
The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Costas Lapavitsas
Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Stephen Cavalier
The World History of Animation. Quarto Publishing, 2011.
Laura Lee
How the Weather Has Changed History. HarperCollins, 2006.
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William J. Bernstein
How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.
Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Frank Abagnale
The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.
Sonia Shah
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Walter Isaacson
His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
William M. LeoGrande
The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
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