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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean

Adrian Tinniswood

300 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

3.0buermann's review
nonfiction history adventurous fast-paced
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Blade Runner #1

Philip K. Dick

224 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction dystopian science fiction adventurous dark reflective medium-paced
Yemen: The Unknown War by Dana Adams Schmidt
Yemen: The Unknown War
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Dana Adams Schmidt

Yemen: The Unknown War

Dana Adams Schmidt

316 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

3.0buermann's review
America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier by Robert Vitalis

America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier

Robert Vitalis

353 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

Robert Baer

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown

The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

Nancy Marie Brown

310 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history religion science challenging informative slow-paced
The Albigensian Crusades by Joseph Strayer

The Albigensian Crusades

Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Joseph Strayer

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0buermann's review
nonfiction history
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

275 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

4.0buermann's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball by Trevor H. Levere
Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball
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Trevor H. Levere

Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball

Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science

Trevor H. Levere

232 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0buermann's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Kim Barker

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

3.0buermann's review
nonfiction history memoir informative slow-paced