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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval N. Harari

4.34 / 1 215 819 ratings

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Renegades

Barack Obama, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen

4.32 / 2 612 ratings

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Numbers Don't Lie

Vaclav Smil, Smil Vaclav

3.83 / 10 102 ratings

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?

Rosalind Miles, Miles Rosalind

3.80 / 4 261 ratings

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Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond, Jared M. Diamond

4.04 / 447 823 ratings

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Sapiens Volume Two The Pillars of Civilization

Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval N. Harari, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave (illustrator), David Vandermeulen (editor)

4.25 / 5 072 ratings

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Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1

Yuval Noah Harari, Yuval N. Harari, David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave (artist)

4.34 / 18 837 ratings

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Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Greg Jenner

4.10 / 2 455 ratings

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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo

4.32 / 43 082 ratings

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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiments Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

James Holland

4.46 / 1 682 ratings

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Less Is More

Jason Hickel, Hickel Jason

4.51 / 8 508 ratings

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A History of the World in 100 Objects

Dr Neil MacGregor, Neil Macgregor

4.19 / 9 220 ratings

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The Darkening Age

Catherine Nixey

4.07 / 6 365 ratings

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The Madman's Library

Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.24 / 1 827 ratings

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Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham, HIGGINBOTHAM ADAM

4.37 / 61 878 ratings

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Energy and Civilization

Vaclav Smil, Smil Vaclav

4.09 / 3 970 ratings

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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.39 / 9 525 ratings

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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

Henry Gee

4.06 / 2 954 ratings

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Lessons of History

Will Durant, Durant, Durant Will, Ariel Durant

4.06 / 19 689 ratings

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Cosmos and Psyche

Richard Tarnas, Tarnas Richard

4.25 / 1 235 ratings

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Debt

David Graeber

4.21 / 25 954 ratings

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Sapiens

Renegades

Numbers Don't Lie

Who Cooked the Last Supper?

Guns, Germs and Steel

Sapiens Volume Two The Pillars of Civilization

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiments Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

Less Is More

A History of the World in 100 Objects

The Darkening Age

The Madman's Library

Midnight in Chernobyl

Energy and Civilization

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

Lessons of History

Cosmos and Psyche

Debt

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