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The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
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by Dave Eggers
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsThe true story of one family, caught between Americas two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
by Jack Turner
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsA brilliant, original history of the spice trade, and the appetites that fueled it.
by Margaret MacMillan
Published Sep 2003
Read Reviews'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
by Dava Sobel
Published Oct 2000
Read ReviewsDramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.
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