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
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
The Evolution of Everything
How New Ideas Emerge
Science
History
Philosophy
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Mental Health
Psychology
History
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Business
Biography
Memoir
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
Indigenous
Feminism
History
From Darwin to Derrida
Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
No Hero
The Evolution of a Navy SEAL
Military Fiction
History
Biography
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
History
Race
Book Club
Why the Germans Do it Better
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
History
Politics
Germany
Seven Women
And the Secret of Their Greatness
Biography
Christian
History
The Bhagavad Gita
Royal Science of God-Realization
Spirituality
Religion
Philosophy
The Unexpected Spy
From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Memoir
Biography
Politics
Google It
A History of Google
Business
History
Technology
Opus
The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
History
Religion
Politics
Undoing Border Imperialism
Politics
Race
Activism
Reversing Hermon
Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ
Theology
Christian
Religion
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Education
Politics
Sociology
10 Judgements That Changed India
India
Law
History
The Language Game
How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
Linguistics
Language
Science
The Price of Civilization
Politics
Economics
History
Andrew Carnegie
Biography
History
Business
Capital Ideas
The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Finance
Economics
History
Pendulum
How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future: PDF Included
History
Politics
Sociology
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Politics
History
Economics
The Invention of the Jewish People
History
Politics
Religion
Upheaval
Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
History
Politics
Science
The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
History
Politics
International Relations
The Formula
How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
Sports
Business
History
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Why Read Moby-Dick?
Literary Criticism
Books About Books
Classics
Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
History
Israel
Espionage
How to Listen to Jazz
Music
Jazz
History
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Film
History
Biography
It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
Leadership
Biography
Memoir
The Story of Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Philosophy
History
Biography
After Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
India Unbound
The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
India
History
Economics
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
Psychology
Mythology
Philosophy
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Against the Gods
The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament
Theology
History
Old Testament
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
History
Scotland
Philosophy
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
The Riddles of Culture
Anthropology
History
Sociology
LatinoLand
A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
History
Sociology
Politics
Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts
Finance
Business
India
Working
Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Writing
Memoir
Biography
Red Paint
The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Memoir
Indigenous
Biography
Coffee Life in Japan
Japan
Food
Urban Studies
The Ghost Map
The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
History
Science
Medicine
The Sword and the Shield
The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
History
Espionage
Russia
The World Atlas of Coffee
From Beans to Brewing -- Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed
Food
Cooking
History
