History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
Technology
Sociology
Science
We Are Bellingcat
Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Politics
Journalism
History
How to Listen to Jazz
Music
Jazz
History
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
History
Race
Social Justice
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Public Relations
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Hardball
How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game
Politics
School
Political Science
Decoding the Heavens
A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
History
Science
Technology
A Brief History of Thought
A Philosophical Guide to Living
Philosophy
History
Psychology
Stones Into Schools
Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Education
Memoir
Biography
Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House
Politics
History
Biography
The Big Truck that Went By
How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
History
Politics
International Development
Plastic
A Toxic Love Story
Science
Environment
History
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Biography
Religion
Philosophy
Leadership in War
Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
History
Leadership
Biography
توتالیتاریسم
Politics
History
Philosophy
The End of Alchemy
Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
Economics
Finance
Business
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Biography
History
Politics
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Mental Health
Psychology
History
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Education
Politics
Sociology
The Vital Question
Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Science
Biology
Evolution
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Why the Germans Do it Better
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
History
Politics
Germany
Did America Have a Christian Founding?
Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
History
American History
Politics
The Price of Civilization
Politics
Economics
History
Confucianism
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
China
Religion
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
Politics
Psychology
Conspiracy Theories
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
History
Scotland
Philosophy
Shakespeare
The Invention of the Human
Literary Criticism
Criticism
Literature
The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Business
History
Economics
Black Hawk Down
A Story of Modern War
History
Military Fiction
War
The Story of the Integration of the Indian States
History
India
Politics
The Alchemy of Us
How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Science
History
Technology
Red Paint
The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Memoir
Indigenous
Biography
Gamers at Work
Stories Behind the Games People Play
Video Games
Games
Game Design
The Devil Never Sleeps
Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
History
Politics
Business
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Chess
Biography
Games
The Language Game
How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Linguistics
Language
Science
Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
History
Politics
China
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Business
Biography
Technology
Framed
Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
True Crime
Crime
History
In Defense of Witches
The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
Feminism
History
Witches
The Problems of Philosophy
Philosophy
Classics
History
Tunesmith
Inside the Art of Songwriting
Music
Writing
History
What Is to Be Done?
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
The Secret Teachers of the Western World
History
Occult
Philosophy
The Real Crash
Economics
Politics
Finance
The Aquarian Conspiracy
Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time
Psychology
Philosophy
History
7 Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
History
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