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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 Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

Richard Zacks

432 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history hopeful reflective medium-paced
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
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Quicksilver

The Baroque Cycle (8 volume) #1

Neal Stephenson

456 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
fiction fantasy historical science fiction challenging informative slow-paced
Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge

Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt 1914-1921

Ian Rutledge

471 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

289 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
fiction contemporary literary challenging dark funny medium-paced
Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West by William Hogeland

Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West

William Hogeland

464 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

376 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes

Anand Gopal

304 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective fast-paced
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber, David Wengrow

704 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0buermann's review
nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced