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
Portrait of a Turkish Family
History
Memoir
Turkish
The Inkblots
Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
Psychology
History
Biography
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
History
Science
Art
Kashmir
A Case of Freedom
History
India
Politics
Swedenborg
An Introduction to His Life and Ideas
Biography
Religion
Mysticism
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
History
True Crime
American History
You are Being Lied To
The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
The Perfect Police State
An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
Politics
China
History
Lily Dale
The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead
History
Paranormal
Spiritualism
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1, Reader's Edition
Biography
Autobiography
History
Uncontrolled Spread
Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
Science
History
Health
Mark of a Giant
Seven People Who Changed the World
History
Biography
Historical
The Klondike Fever
The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
History
Canada
American History
Impounded
Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
History
Photography
World War II
Here, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Music
Biography
Memoir
Leonardo and the Last Supper
History
Art
Biography
Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Politics
History
Sociology
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biography
History
Mystery
Dressed Up for a Riot
Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
Russia
Memoir
Politics
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Biography
Economics
History
Voodoo Histories
The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
History
Politics
Conspiracy Theories
A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal
Spirituality
History
Paranormal
Hammer of the Gods
Music
Biography
History
Classical Music for Dummies
Music
Reference
Classical Music
Front Row at the Trump Show
Politics
History
Journalism
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom
History
Biography
Seldom Disappointed
A Memoir
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
History
Civil War
Biography
The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
History
Science
Engineering
California Burning
The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
History
Business
Politics
Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
Religion
History
Reference
In a Sunburned Country
Travel
Humor
Australia
Rommel
Lessons from Yesterday for Today's Leaders
History
Leadership
World War II
Inside Money
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
History
Business
Economics
Targeted
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Politics
Technology
Memoir
The Ballot and the Bible
How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
Politics
Theology
Christian
Tearing Us Apart
How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing
Cultural
Politics
Philosophy
UFOs for the 21st Century Mind
A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery
Aliens
Paranormal
Science
From Fatwa to Jihad
Politics
Religion
History
Cod
A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
History
Food
Science
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
History
Biography
Westerns
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History
Economics
History
Finance
The Shadow of a Great Rock
A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible
Religion
Literary Criticism
History
The Elephant and the Dragon
The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
China
Economics
Politics
Once a Wolf
The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
Science
Animals
Dogs
The Faithful Preacher
Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors
Biography
Theology
History
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III
History
Classics
Ancient History
Moveable Feasts
From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
Food
History
Food History
Clean
The New Science of Skin
Science
Health
Medicine
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
History
Language
Biography
