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The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

2006 ★ 4.3

Locomotive

Brian Floca

2013

Freedom from fear

David M. Kennedy

1999

The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948 ★ 3.8

A history of the English-speaking peoples

Winston S. Churchill, Jeffrey Webb, CHURCHILL et al.

1956 ★ 3.6

The swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

2011 ★ 4.4

Lenin's tomb

David Remnick

1993 ★ 3.7

Human knowledge, its scope and limits

Bertrand Russell

1948

Subtle Is the Lord

Abraham Pais

1982

Amos Fortune, free man

Elizabeth Yates

1951 ★ 4.2

Gandhi's truth

Erik H. Erikson

1969

So you want to be president?

Judith St George, David Small

2000

How We Die

Sherwin B. Nuland

1994 ★ 3.8

The story of mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

1922

Moon over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

2010 ★ 4.2

Autobiography

Bertrand Russell

1944 ★ 4.2

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

2000 ★ 4.0

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell

1984 ★ 3.7

L'Homme révolté

Albert Camus

1954 ★ 4.4

Ashanti to Zulu

Margaret Musgrove

1976

Animals of the Bible

Helen Dean Fish, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

1937

Snowflake Bentley

Jacqueline Briggs Martin

1998 ★ 4.2

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

1982 ★ 4.2

Lincoln

Russell Freedman

1987 ★ 5.0

Guns, germs, and steel

Jared M. Diamond

1997 ★ 4.1

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

Bertrand Russell

1954

Introduction to mathematical philosophy

Bertrand Russell

1920 ★ 3.3

A Bright Shining Lie

Neil Sheehan

1988 ★ 5.0

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Mordicai Gerstein

2003

My Philosophical Development

Bertrand Russell

1959

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