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After spotting her homeless mother digging through a New York Dumpster, Jeannette Walls unspools the story she’s tried to outgrow: a childhood of brilliance and neglect, big dreams and bigger lies, and the hard, determined climb toward a life she chose for herself.
From a blistering Nevada missile test where a “stealth” jet refuses to appear on radar, to secret CIA airfields and Mach 3 spy planes, Ben Rich recounts how a small band of engineers repeatedly bent physics—and bureaucracy—to change modern warfare.
At Argonne National Laboratory, a small team proved a bold idea: a sodium-cooled fast reactor with metal fuel and on-site recycling could be safer, cleaner, and vastly more fuel-efficient—until politics shut it down just as the finish line came into view.
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After spotting her homeless mother digging through a New York Dumpster, Jeannette Walls unspools the story she’s tried to outgrow: a childhood of brilliance and neglect, big dreams and bigger lies, and the hard, determined climb toward a life she chose for herself.
From a blistering Nevada missile test where a “stealth” jet refuses to appear on radar, to secret CIA airfields and Mach 3 spy planes, Ben Rich recounts how a small band of engineers repeatedly bent physics—and bureaucracy—to change modern warfare.
At Argonne National Laboratory, a small team proved a bold idea: a sodium-cooled fast reactor with metal fuel and on-site recycling could be safer, cleaner, and vastly more fuel-efficient—until politics shut it down just as the finish line came into view.
A legendary muckraking journalist retires, learns enough Greek to challenge the standard story, and reopens history’s most famous courtroom: why did democratic Athens execute Socrates—and what did Plato leave out of the record?
What if ancient humans didn’t have an inner narrator at all—only commanding voices they experienced as gods? Jaynes argues consciousness is a recent cultural invention, born when those voices failed under historical chaos and humans had to build an inner self to decide what to do.
In the 1950s, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas travels with her family into the unmapped interior of the Kalahari and meets the Ju/wa Bushmen—people still living by hunting and gathering—then follows their knowledge, social rules, and spiritual life all the way to the modern collapse of the Old Way.
In the early 1970s, Xerox quietly built a research lab in Palo Alto that invented the personal computer, Ethernet, the laser printer, and the modern graphical interface—then watched outsiders turn those ideas into fortunes while the parent company struggled to understand what it had paid for.
In 1915, Shackleton’s ship Endurance is crushed by Antarctic pack ice—yet his real legend begins after the wreck, as he keeps 27 men alive on drifting floes, then gambles everything on an open-boat voyage and an impossible mountain crossing to bring rescue.
In nine tightly observed stories, lives tilt on small deceptions, sudden loyalties, and private bargains—until a forged love letter becomes a marriage, a dying man’s joke becomes a widow’s armor, and memory itself proves less faithful than consequence.
Travel gently through Ukraine’s long fight to exist—its language, culture, revolutions, famine, and survival—and see how suppressed history still shapes the present, offering context for why Ukraine remains at the center of world events today.
A British warship vanishes near Cape Horn, then washes a handful of survivors into history’s spotlight. Some claim heroism. Others cry mutiny. Between the storms, scurvy, and hunger, their stories split—and the truth could mean the noose. This is a relentless, human tale about order falling apart and what people do to survive.
A brutal northern winter locks a Maine town under ice. A dead man is found in the river, a pastor’s wife swears she was raped by a judge, and midwife Martha Ballard—mother, healer, and keeper of hard truths—has to pull the town’s secrets into daylight. This is the story of justice scraped from frozen ground, and a woman who refuses to look away.
A hidden voyage, a rebuilt life, and a century-long fight for dignity. From the burning of the Clotilda to today’s battles over pollution and preservation, this is the living story of Africatown—told through people who refused to forget and kept building anyway.
An ancient voice steps out of time to tell a story of angels who crossed a line, a world that lost its balance, and a justice that never sleeps. Come walk with Enoch through crystal halls of fire, past prisons of fallen stars, and into a promise that still steadies the human heart.
The Fates Of Human Societies
Explore This Brilliant Analysis of American Democracy
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
A girl who steals words. A Jewish fist-fighter hiding in a basement. A boy who paints himself black to run like Jesse Owens. And Death, watching it all with tired eyes. This is a story about the power of language to destroy and to save—told in the warm, aching voice of the one who carries us away.
Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
The Revolutionary Generation
China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
From Hoaxes to Deepfakes
Uncover a Rich Tapestry of Family, Love, and Change
A New Origin Story
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Empire of the Mind
Memories of a Nation
The Dangers of the American Dream During the Great Depression
The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
A Galloping History of Humanity
A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World
The World's Greatest Waves
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President – and Why It Failed
A Novel
Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Uncover Ancient Wisdom on Love and Relationships
A Story of Courage, Community, and War
The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
A new way of looking at human history and psychology
The Roots of England
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
The Making of India and Pakistan
Love and Judgment in Puritan Times
How America Vanquished World War II Japan
An Ancient Greek Tragedy on Civil Disobedience, Morality and Gender
Immerse Yourself in a Visionary Tale of Extraterrestrial Conflict
The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Dig Deep into Democracy and Dictatorship
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
How the Modern World Was Made
Britain and Europe From Churchill to Blair
A Short History of Private Life
The Battle for Our Better Angels
The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Explore a Labyrinth of Absurdity in This Timeless Legal Odyssey
Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
A Call for Christians and Church Leaders to Learn From the Past
A Four Thousand Year History
"The Story of Radiation – How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live"
The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
The fascinating story behind the Mongol Empire
Exploring Myths that Shape our Identity and Reality
A Brief History of Humankind
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the Modern Middle East
What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Native America from 1890 to the Present
How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn From the T-Shirt Cannon
The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History
An American History
Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
A Compelling Exploration of Racism, Religion, and Resilience
This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Regicide and Revenge in one of the World's Most Famous Tragedies
Or, all for the Best
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
A Self-Help Book for Societies
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
On Homecoming and Belonging
A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
A Global History
How Europe Went To War in 1914
From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
A Classic on the Reality of Change and Colonialism in Nigeria
The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Hannah Arendt's landmark work about Europe's anti-Semitic and imperialist roots
A New History of Humanity
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Unveil the Power of Rational Thought
An account of the conditions of African Americans after the end of slavery
Struggle, Love, and Adventure Unfold
One of the Greatest Criminal Chases of All Time
A People’s History
The (Dodgy) Business of Popular Music
Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
How New Ideas Emerge
A timeless tale of friendship, mortality, and the search for meaning
The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
The epic story, from 1807 to modern times
A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Uncover the history of Africa’s most populous country
How We Took to The Air
How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
A Historical Novel on the Irrationality of Human Behavior in War
A Haunting Odyssey Through a Post-Apocalyptic World
The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
Western Conceptions of the Orient
The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
Listening to the Twentieth Century
From Fathers to Sons—Life Lessons from Navy SEAL Training
How Conflict Shaped Us
A Spark for Revolutionary Thought
Explore the Hidden Powers That Govern Our World Today
Dive into a Future Galactic Empire in This Science-Fiction Classic
The South Asian Twentieth Century
A Novel
Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
The Rise and Fall of Private Life
Observations on the Nature, Theory and Strategy of War and Combat
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Inside the Army of Terror
An Alternative View of the Feminist Struggle for Liberation
The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
An American Prophecy
How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
A Story of Violent Faith
The Greek Epic on the End of the Trojan War and Achilles’ Wrath
Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer
Six Queens of Egypt
A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
A Very Short Introduction
An Introduction to History
Examine the Roots of Conflict and the Path to Justice in Palestine
An exploration of how history helps us interpret the present and plan for the future
A Timeless Tale Where Love Conquers Societal Norms
A Victorian Heroine’s Struggle for Self-Realization
A Comprehensive Guide to the Subtle Social Game of Everyday Life
How Britain Made the Modern World
Excursions to the Edge of Thought
Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition
17 Equations That Changed the World
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
The Israelis and the Holocaust
The Stories of Six Survivors of the Atomic Bomb
The Rise and Fall of a World Power
The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Origins of Our Discontents
The Rise of ISIS
Letters that Changed the World
Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
The ten key concepts underlying China’s transformation
How America Went Haywire
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
A Forgotten History
A Journey of self-discovery
A masterpiece of feminist philosophy
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Last of the Soviets
A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. A Toltec Wisdom Book
Ruminations on Chance and Happiness
The Spanish Epic Novel on the Human Condition and Death
The Secret War Against Terrorists
The Ultimate Origin Story
The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
Love, sacrifice, and revolution collide between London and Paris. Follow a family’s fight to stay whole as a disillusioned lawyer discovers the one act that can redeem a wasted life.
Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”
What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love
Explore the Epic Odyssey of This Towering 20th-Century Classic
Get a primer on the epic Peloponnesian War
The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Discover Cultural Divide in Colonial India
A Novel
The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
A History from Socrates to Social Media
Machine Learning and Human Values
The Story of Human Progress
The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
Freedom, Civilization, and Prejudice in the Pre-Civil War South
1613-1918
Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
The Politics of Us and Them
An Emotional Story of Betrayal and Redemption in 1970s Afghanistan
A New History of the Middle Ages
What's Next?
A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
A Very Short Introduction
The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
The Horrors of Western Colonialism Told Through the Ivory Trade
The Biography
How Fabric Changed History
Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
A History
A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
How Modern Art Came to America
A History
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Roe v. Wade to the Present
The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
A look into the triumphs and tragedies of the Roman Empire's first twelve emperors
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Making of Modern South Africa
How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
A History of the Islamic Republic
Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
A Chronicle of Power, Conflict, and the Fall of Ancient Greece
A Powerful Exploration of Colonialism’s Psychological Impact
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
A Story of Justice and Redemption
The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
A COMMUNITY HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICA, 1619–2019
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age
On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
A Political History
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic on Racial Prejudice & Injustice
A Short History
A History of Ukraine
A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
Philby and the Great Betrayal
Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
How your favorite drinks changed the world
How Indigenous Peoples Can Tackle the Challenges of Globalization
A Perfectly Natural History
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
A foundational work in the history of Western political philosophy
A New History of the World
From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry
A History of Collective Joy
The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A brilliant and moving history of the American people
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
A New History of the Aztecs
The New Science of Skin
Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
A Coming-Of-Age Classic on Belonging and Teenage Alienation
An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
The Story of Autism
What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
A History
A World History
Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World
The World’s First Tech Entrepreneur
A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
The Indispensable Chomsky
A History of the Vikings
A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece
Pioneers, Revolutionaries, and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
Enter a World of Medieval Heroism, Where Honor Reigns Supreme
Discover an Epic Tale of Virtue, Myth, and Magic in This Classic
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
A Critique of Political Economy
A New Africa Breaks Free
The Inside Story of how Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves
An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
A Pragmatic Guide to Building Strong and Prosperous States
The Story Of Humanity
A Short History of Humanity
Essential analysis on where the world economy is headed
The End of the German Miracle
The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
A History and a Reckoning
A History of US Trade Policy
Why Nations Succeed and Fail
How Trade Shaped the World
How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Science of Our Past, Present and Future
Explore Key Economic Moments and Their Impact on Today’s World
Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
A History
The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
Explore the Evolution of Inequality and a Path to a Better Future
How Government Biases Policy Debate
America, 1927
Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
The Present and Future of the World
The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life
How Play Made the Modern World
A Young Prince’s Tragic Descend Into Madness and Revenge
A Classic Novel on the American Dream of the Roaring Twenties
A Brief History of Swearing
A Crusade for Freedom of Speech
English And How It Got That Way
The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry
Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
Essays on Global Economic Collapse and Revival
A Story That Tells You How To Be One
Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Samuel Adams
Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
The Personal Crisis That Made a President
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The famous story of a Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Second World War
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
A Dark, Brilliant Odyssey Through the Legacy of a Polymath
Tales of Life and Music
The Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
A Study of a Profoundly American Life
James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
A Biography of George Washington
Insights from an American Polymath
The War of the Presidents
A Life
The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
A Tale of Desire and Despair in the Search for Fulfillment
How Napoleon Conquered Europe and Changed the World
The Rise of the Mongol Empire and Its First Great Khan
J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Money’s Prophets 1798–1848
Memories 1954 – 2021
The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
An Autobiography of Overcoming Racism and Trauma With Literature
The Story of 9/11
A Novel
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Survival and Ingenuity Isolated
My Remarkable Life in Show Business
A Motorcycle, a Continent, and a Revolutionary Awakening
A tyrant's ruthless climb to power and inevitable downfall
The Life of a Modern Monarch
A Novel
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
A Novel
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
A Tale of Two Mirrored Fates
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
1599
The Life
A Harrowing Tale of Injustice
Or the Evening Redness in the West
The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
Three sisters grow up under a mother who looks like a small-town caregiver but acts like a quiet storm. They survive years of manipulation, cruelty, and silence—and then decide to tell the world exactly what happened. This is that story, told with clear eyes and full hearts.
The Macedonian who conquered the world
Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
John Lewis and the Power of Hope
One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
A Novel
The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Experience a Magical Journey Through India’s Tumultuous History
A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis
1820–1910
Echoes of Grandeur and Heartache Resonate Through a Stately Home
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
A Knight’s Test of Honor, Temptation, and Truth
My Time As MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda
The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
A Memoir of Murder in My Country
How 17 Molecules Changed History
A Big History of Everything
In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Vengeance and Justice in Mycenae
A Tragedy of Survival and Loss
Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
A history of happiness
America in 100 Charts
Examining the Human Attraction to Consciousness Altering Plants
A Game of Life and Death in World War II
A Novel
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
A Cultural History
A bold defense of liberty and equality.
How Human Values Evolve
An American Fight Against Fascism
A journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer
Dive into Ancient Philosophical Insights
Notes on the State of America
Blueprint for the American Republic
The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Explore the Harsh Reality of American Slavery
My Life After the White House
Scenes From Behind the Berlin Wall
A Memoir and a Warning
Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
A survivor’s account of Auschwitz
Unravel a Moving Tale of Childhood Dreams, Race, and Empowerment
The Power of an Idea
History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
A History of the Present
One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
The dark side of American foreign policy