History
The past comes alive through the pivotal moments, groundbreaking ideas, and remarkable individuals that have shaped our world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of everything from ancient philosophy to modern economics, from social movements to technological transformation, all carefully examined through the lens of time.
History Book Summaries
Between the World and Me
Memoir
Race
History
Custodians of Wonder
Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
History
Travel
Sociology
The Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Science
Philosophy
Evolution
The Power of Women
A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
Feminism
Health
War
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
History
Politics
Race
The Beautiful Tree
Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century
History
India
Education
Bonhoeffer
Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Biography
History
Christian
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
After Steve
How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Business
Biography
Technology
Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
Economics
Politics
Business
George Washington's Secret Six
The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
History
American History
American Revolution
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Economics
Politics
History
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
Economics
Politics
Business
Utopia for Realists
How We Can Build the Ideal World
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
History
Biography
Philosophy
World on the Brink
How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
China
Politics
History
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Economics
Politics
History
How to Rule the World
A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator
Humor
Politics
History
The Future of Geography
How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
Politics
Geography
History
The Long Game
China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
China
Politics
History
Why Empires Fall
Rome, America and the Future of the West
History
Politics
Economics
The World Without Us
Science
Environment
Nature
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Mythology
Philosophy
Psychology
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Politics
Philosophy
History
The 1619 Project
A New Origin Story
History
Race
Social Justice
Miracle in the Andes
Survival
Memoir
Adventure
Keynes
The Return of the Master
Economics
History
Biography
Original Sins
The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
History
Education
Race
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
History
Politics
War
Grinding It Out
The Making of McDonald's
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Biography
Memoir
Politics
The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
History
Anthropology
Science
How to Stop Fascism
History, Ideology, Resistance
Politics
History
Political Science
The Ten Types of Human
Who We Are and Who We Can Be
Psychology
Self Help
Science
The Quest for a Moral Compass
A Global History of Ethics
Philosophy
History
Religion
The Nazis
A Warning from History
History
World War II
War
Age of Revolutions
Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
History
Politics
World History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
History
Politics
War
A Little History of the World
History
World History
Historical
The White Man's Burden
Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Economics
Politics
International Development
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Economics
History
Business
One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
The Facebook Effect
The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
Business
Technology
Biography
Ten Days in a Mad-House
History
Classics
Psychology
Architects of Intelligence
The truth about AI from the people building it
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Science
The First Muslim
The Story of Muhammad
Religion
History
Islam
Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Business
Economics
Finance
