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From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despi…

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A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people—morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners—who work in it and what led them there.

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Money: A Story of Humanity

MONEY.
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Humanity’s greatest invention.

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Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong

Is geography really destiny?

Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the…

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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

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Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing l…

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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is a look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how t…

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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

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An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on th…

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How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain

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A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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