History 55 books by Alexander

Columbine

ByDave Cullen

2009 • 273 Readers • 417 pages • 4.4

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

ByElizabeth Kolbert

2014 • 364 Readers • 319 pages • 4.1

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

ByBart D. Ehrman

2005 • 87 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

ByBart D. Ehrman

2009 • 36 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

A Short History of Nearly Everything

ByBill Bryson

2003 • 1,131 Readers • 705 pages • 4.2

Time Reborn

ByLee Smolin

2013 • 5 Readers • 352 pages • 5

The Trouble with Physics

ByLee Smolin

2006 • 29 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

Janson's History of Art

ByH.W. Janson,Penelope J.E. Davies

2001 • 3 Readers • 1,111 pages • 5

#10

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

BySam Harris

2004 • 97 Readers • 349 pages • 3.9

#11

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

BySteve Coll

2004 • 96 Readers • 725 pages • 4.3

#12

Grunt

ByMary Roach

2016 • 141 Readers • 285 pages • 3.8

#13

Packing for Mars

ByMary Roach

2010 • 159 Readers • 334 pages • 4.1

#14

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

ByMary Roach

2008 • 204 Readers • 327 pages • 3.9

#15

How Music Got Free

ByStephen Witt

2015 • 60 Readers • 306 pages • 4.2

#16

Fatal Invention

ByDorothy Roberts

2011 • 34 Readers • 400 pages • 4.8

#17

Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture

BySheldon Krimsky(Editor),Kathleen Sloan(Editor)

2011 • 1 Reader • 4

#18

God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion

ByChristopher Hitchens

2007 • 246 Readers • 307 pages • 3.9

#19

Arguably

ByChristopher Hitchens

2011 • 26 Readers • 816 pages • 4

#20

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

ByThomas S. Kuhn

1962 • 202 Readers • 226 pages • 3.9

#21

Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

ByTomáš Sedláček

2009 • 3 Readers • 386 pages • 2

#22

Ghettoside

ByJill Leovy,Dorothy L. Sayers

2015 • 69 Readers • 384 pages • 3.7

#23

#1 of 4 in New History of Western Philosophy

A New History of Western Philosophy

ByAnthony Kenny

2007 • 17 Readers • 1,058 pages • 3.3

#24

Serendipities : language & lunacy

ByUmberto Eco

1998 • 8 Readers • 144 pages • 3

#25

Inventing the Enemy: Essays

ByUmberto Eco

2011 • 5 Readers • 222 pages • 3

#26

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

ByDaniel C. Dennett

1996 • 55 Readers • 598 pages • 4.3

#27

The Science of Yoga

ByWilliam J. Broad

2012 • 7 Readers • 298 pages • 4

#28

A Brief History of Thought

ByLuc Ferry

2011 • 16 Readers • 304 pages • 3.4

#29

3 Little History

A Little History of Philosophy

ByNigel Warburton

2011 • 53 Readers • 252 pages • 4

#30

The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations

ByLarry Tye

1998 • 5 Readers • 3

#31

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

ByEvan Wright

2004 • 50 Readers • 354 pages • 4.3

#32

Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci

ByLeonardo da Vinci

2014 • 1 Reader • 1,212 pages • 3

#33

Leonardo's Notebooks

ByLeonardo da Vinci

1519 • 23 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

#34

The Pleasure Principle: Epicureanism: A Philosophy for Modern Living

ByCatherine Wilson

2019 • 1 Reader • 3

#35

American Predator

ByMaureen Callahan

2019 • 144 Readers • 306 pages • 4.1

#36

Empty Planet

ByDarrell Bricker,John Ibbitson

2019 • 16 Readers • 324 pages • 3.8

#37

The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008

ByPaul Krugman

2008 • 18 Readers • 288 pages • 3.3

#38

Mind Fixers

ByAnne Harrington

2019 • 19 Readers • 384 pages • 4

#39

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

ByTim Harford

2017 • 29 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

#40

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

ByVal McDermid

2014 • 75 Readers • 310 pages • 3.7

#41

Factfulness

ByHans Rosling

29 • 684 Readers • 352 pages • 4.4

#42

Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective

ByThomas Sowell

2015 • 15 Readers • 328 pages • 3.6

#43

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

BySam Kean

2014 • 86 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

#44

Dead Mountain

ByDonnie Eichar

2013 • 90 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

#45

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

ByDaron Acemoğlu,James A. Robinson

2012 • 260 Readers • 529 pages • 3.7

#46

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs and Steel

ByJared Diamond

1998 • 838 Readers • 480 pages • 3.9

#47

#2 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Collapse

ByJared Diamond

2005 • 252 Readers • 608 pages • 3.9

#48

#3 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

ByJared Diamond

2019 • 84 Readers • 502 pages • 3.5

#49

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

ByDavid Graeber

2011 • 411 Readers • 534 pages • 4.1

#50

Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

ByBart D. Ehrman

2016 • 11 Readers • 4

#51

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ByThomas Piketty,Arthur Goldhammer(Translator)

2013 • 251 Readers • 685 pages • 4.1

#52

The Closing of the American Mind

ByAllan Bloom

1987 • 22 Readers • 393 pages • 2.5

#53

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

ByNiall Ferguson

2007 • 99 Readers • 464 pages • 4

#54

Suicide of the West

ByJonah Goldberg

2018 • 8 Readers • 4.8

#55

In Pursuit of the Unknown

ByIan Stewart

2012 • 17 Readers • 360 pages • 3.5

#56

The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning

ByJeremy Lent(Foreword),Fritjof Capra(Foreword)

2017 • 21 Readers • 966 pages • 4

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