The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Capital and Imperialism by Utsa Patnaik
The Meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
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The blank slate (Pinker). Why does human nature exist and why it matters. You will never think again about almost any social issue without involving evolutionary psychology. Long and masterfully written.
[*The better angels of our nature is another masterpiece by him. Why is today the most peaceful era in history. A lot of war, history and eye-opening facts.*]
The Silk Road (Frankopan). Why is Central Asia (those -stan countries) the most relevant part of the world now and then. You can understand almost every global issue by considering that overlooked region. Exquisite prose, thought-provoking.
Fooled by randomness (Taleb). Meritocracy does not exist: we don’t deserve all that we have (good and bad). Academic and personal reflection captured in aggressive prose. Teaches dignity and humbleness.
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* Red Land Black Land by Barbara Mertz. It’s about what we know about the lifestyle of a common man and woman in the ancient Egypt, and how we know it (food, home, furniture, clothes, medicine, school, etc.)
* Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne. Mixed among the physics talk, in small dosage, is the environment of the physics around the time of WW2 and cold war – who were key scientists in the field of relativity, how the isolation of russia from rest of the world affected their progress in science
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Anything by Ross King, John Julius Norwich, Simon Schama, John Keay, Walter Isaacson, and Christopher Hibbert
*King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa* by Adam Hochschild
*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*The Story of Art* by E.H. Gombrich
*Raphael: A Passionate Life* by Antonio Forcellino
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*Bernini: His Life and His Rome* by Franco Mormando
*The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein* by Franny Moyle
*On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren* by Lisa Jardine
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque* by H. C. Robbins Landon
*Chopin: The Man and His Music* by James Huneker
*Shakespeare: The Biography* by Peter Ackroyd
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization* by Richard Miles
*SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* by Mary Beard
*Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire* by Jason Goodwin
*The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How It Changed the American West* by Jeff Guinn
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Justice for Animals –Martha Nussbaum
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
Horizon –Barry Lopez
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It –Ethan Cross
Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far –Paul Offit
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All the Shah’s Men
The Twilight War
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Capital and Imperialism by Utsa Patnaik
The Meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
The blank slate (Pinker). Why does human nature exist and why it matters. You will never think again about almost any social issue without involving evolutionary psychology. Long and masterfully written.
[*The better angels of our nature is another masterpiece by him. Why is today the most peaceful era in history. A lot of war, history and eye-opening facts.*]
The Silk Road (Frankopan). Why is Central Asia (those -stan countries) the most relevant part of the world now and then. You can understand almost every global issue by considering that overlooked region. Exquisite prose, thought-provoking.
Fooled by randomness (Taleb). Meritocracy does not exist: we don’t deserve all that we have (good and bad). Academic and personal reflection captured in aggressive prose. Teaches dignity and humbleness.
* Red Land Black Land by Barbara Mertz. It’s about what we know about the lifestyle of a common man and woman in the ancient Egypt, and how we know it (food, home, furniture, clothes, medicine, school, etc.)
* Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne. Mixed among the physics talk, in small dosage, is the environment of the physics around the time of WW2 and cold war – who were key scientists in the field of relativity, how the isolation of russia from rest of the world affected their progress in science
Anything by Ross King, John Julius Norwich, Simon Schama, John Keay, Walter Isaacson, and Christopher Hibbert
*King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa* by Adam Hochschild
*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*The Story of Art* by E.H. Gombrich
*Raphael: A Passionate Life* by Antonio Forcellino
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*Bernini: His Life and His Rome* by Franco Mormando
*The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein* by Franny Moyle
*On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren* by Lisa Jardine
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque* by H. C. Robbins Landon
*Chopin: The Man and His Music* by James Huneker
*Shakespeare: The Biography* by Peter Ackroyd
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization* by Richard Miles
*SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* by Mary Beard
*Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire* by Jason Goodwin
*The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How It Changed the American West* by Jeff Guinn
Justice for Animals –Martha Nussbaum
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
Horizon –Barry Lopez
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It –Ethan Cross
Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far –Paul Offit
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).