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
Broken Code
Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
Technology
Business
Politics
The Clash of the Cultures
Investment vs. Speculation
Finance
Business
Economics
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
You Are What You Speak
Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Language
Linguistics
Politics
The Ten Types of Human
Who We Are and Who We Can Be
Psychology
Self Help
Science
India Unbound
The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
India
History
Economics
Sasanian Persia
The Rise and Fall of an Empire
History
Iran
Ancient History
The Aquarian Conspiracy
Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time
Psychology
Philosophy
History
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Memoir
Race
Essays
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
History
Russia
Politics
Ignorance
How it drives science
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
It Doesn't Take a Hero
The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Biography
Military Fiction
History
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Biography
Technology
True Crime
Adolf Hitler
History
Biography
World War II
Michael Jackson, Inc.
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire
Biography
Music
Business
The Spotify Play
How Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
Business
Music
Biography
The Divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
Politics
History
Biography
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight
Memoir
Disability
Biography Memoir
A Walk in the Park
The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Travel
Memoir
Nature
Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
Medici Money
Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
History
Italy
Economics
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Economics
Politics
Finance
A Century of War
Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
Politics
History
Economics
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue
Finance
Business
Economics
How to Listen to Jazz
Music
Jazz
History
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Science
History
Biology
The Formula
How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
Sports
Business
History
How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Science
History
Humor
Stolen Pride
Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
Politics
Sociology
History
A Brief History of Earth
Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Science
History
Geology
The Dorito Effect
The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
Food
Health
Science
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
History
Anthropology
Science
The Devil at His Elbow
Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
True Crime
Crime
History
Faster
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Science
Technology
Psychology
The Sound of Music Story
How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time
History
Music
Biography
In Search of The Color Purple
The Story of an American Masterpiece
History
Memoir
Biography
Conquests and Cultures
An International History
History
Economics
Politics
Against the Gods
The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament
Theology
History
Old Testament
A Force More Powerful
A Century of Non-Violent Conflict
History
Politics
Sociology
The New Great Depression
Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World
Economics
Finance
Business
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Politics
Philosophy
History
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Politics
History
Biography
The Power of Women
A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
Feminism
Health
War
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Business
Economics
History
Heavens on Earth
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
Science
Philosophy
Religion
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
China
Economics
History
The Dying Citizen
How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
Politics
History
Philosophy
Men of Mathematics
Mathematics
Science
History
