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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 449,126 ratings — published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 746,227 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,221,818 ratings — published 2011
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 121,031 ratings — published 1998
Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 47,092 ratings — published 2005
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 75,699 ratings — published 2002
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 78,572 ratings — published 2015
The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 23,942 ratings — published 2008
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 179,772 ratings — published 2016
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 216,839 ratings — published 2011
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 97,849 ratings — published 2010
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 21,623 ratings — published 2003
One Summer: America, 1927 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 54,271 ratings — published 2013
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 75,533 ratings — published 1995
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,316 ratings — published 2020
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 282,016 ratings — published 2015
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 112,633 ratings — published 2016
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 17,114 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 158,804 ratings — published 2015
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 4,026 ratings — published 2000
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 236,283 ratings — published 2003
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 8,285 ratings — published 2004
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 261,750 ratings — published 1980
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 541 ratings — published 2012
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,657 ratings — published 2011
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 93,840 ratings — published 2005
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 33,201 ratings — published 2005
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 67,200 ratings — published 1998
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,006 ratings — published 1990
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 52,854 ratings — published 2024
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,605 ratings — published 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 432,811 ratings — published 2017
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 43,563 ratings — published 1978
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 24,661 ratings — published 1997
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 133,761 ratings — published 2020
Sinatra: The Chairman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 1,224 ratings — published
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 130,142 ratings — published 2021
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 12,004 ratings — published 2021
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 4,270 ratings — published 2016
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 76,939 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 44,774 ratings — published 2017
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 196,687 ratings — published 2004
The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 13,537 ratings — published 2019
Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,074 ratings — published 2016
The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 23,907 ratings — published 2015
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 26,129 ratings — published 2003
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 2,356 ratings — published 2003
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,769 ratings — published 2017
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 6,965 ratings — published 2017
Jane Austen's England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,813 ratings — published 2013
“If McDonald’s was a fine dining establishment, the chain would have failed years ago because customer surveys routinely return less than fifty percent satisfaction with both the food and service. Ubiquity and familiarity are the chain’s secret sauces. McDonalds survives by operating in thousands of convenient locations. This was once the strategy for the clothing retailer, The Gap and remains important to Starbucks. McDonalds is a real estate company first and a food business second.”
― TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
― TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
“At some point during this decade, people stopped being people and became consumers. The word conjures up an image of a parasite or leech, a ravenous entity existing only to devour. No longer were people simply satisfying needs, they were actively pursuing wants and becoming professional at consuming in the process. Whether it was a big bandwagon or locust mentality, ever increasing numbers of people sought the perfect home with a swimming pool, a piano in the living room, vacations, and second cars.”
― TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
― TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
