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Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd

Sarum is an epic story that tells the history of the Salisbury region in particular and England in general from …

Against the Grain by James C. Scott (Yale agrarian studies series)

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors …

Summary of Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Irb Media

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing …

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies …

Endurance by Alfred Lansing (Voyages)

Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set …

A short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth

"Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every …

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine by Kurt Vonnegut (Henry Holt Classic)

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed …

The Ottoman Empire by Kenneth W. Harl

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …

Faust's Metropolis by Alexandra Richie

Hiroshima. by John Hersey

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.