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The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love. If we all want love, why is ...
The Great Terror: A Reassessment
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The definitive work on Stalin's purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. While the original volume had relie...
Robert Conquest - Reflections on a Ravaged Century
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Illuminates the past with a mighty searchlight and clears away mountains of nonsense."―Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wall Street Journal Robert Conquest has ...
Don Quixote (Unabridged)
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Quixote (Unabridged)
Homer Box Set Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Homer Box Set Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
Publius Cornelius Tacitus - The Complete Works of Tacitus
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Roman senator and historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus is known throughout Western history as one of the greatest historical writers of the Sil...
East of Eden
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
East of Eden The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his mo...
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative lite...
The Grapes of Wrath
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Grapes of Wrath
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy - Francine Shapiro
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don’t &n...
Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon ""Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.""-Newark Star L...
Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way...
Victor Sebestyen - Revolution 1989 The Fall of the Soviet Empire
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations...
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a re...
Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms: Understand and apply the core algorithms of deep learning and artificial intelligence in this friendly illustrated guide including exercises and examples
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
”This book takes an impossibly broad area of computer science and communicates what working developers need to understand in a clear and  ...
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop ...
Chris Duffin - The Eagle and the Dragon - A Story of Strength and Reinvention
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever has happened to you, it is not who you are. The world may know Chris Duffin as the "mad scientist of strength", but you wouldn't ...
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation &nb...
A Brief History of the Samurai: Brief Histories
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai &n...
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one fami...
Shoe Dog
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notori...
Empire: A New History of the World
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization. Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of&nbs...
Jason L. Riley - Maverick; A Biography of Thomas Sowell
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason L. Riley - Maverick; A Biography of Thomas Sowell
Succeeding with AI: How to Make AI Work for Your Business
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Companies small and large are initiating AI projects, investing vast sums of money on software, developers, and data scientists. Too often, these AI p...
The Catalyst How to Change Anyones Mind by Jonah Berger
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Jonah Berger is one of those rare thinkers who blends research-based insights with immensely practical guidance. I am grateful to be one of the many ...
Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World by out-of-the-box thinker Brendan Kane breaks down the most effective strategies to generate new oppo...
Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of Great Economic Thinkers
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores t...
Geography of Risk
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history―but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the mo...
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of ...
Zac Bissonnette - The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zac Bissonnette - The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who,...
Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion. Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But wha...
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion - a renowned international best seller, with over five million copies ...
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted - all while getting paid very well - would you take it? Self-made multimillio...
Advanced Learning and Teaching Technologies
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an exclusive, private seminar that Eben Pagan and his mentor Wyatt Woodsmall created, learn how to learn faster, teach better, and train like a pro...
Joseph Campbell - The Lost Teachings of Joseph Campbell
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Campbell explores questions such as: Have we lost our mythic heritage? Is our future contained in ur past? Where are our heroes? In this int...
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretation...
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scho...
Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the magic of modern myth In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce’s ...
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the r...
The Grail Legend
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Galahad is a word from the Old Testament that means Mountain of Testimony; [Sir Galahad] is a mountain of testimony to Christ. The whole t...
The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, an...
Asian Journals: India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Bud...
Joseph Campbell - A Joseph Campbell Companion Reflections on the Art of Living
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Campbell - A Joseph Campbell Companion Reflections on the Art of Living
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II end...
The Power of Myth
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The national bestseller, now available in a non-illustrated, standard format paperback edition The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgenc...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological str...
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Shakespeare may have been the greatest playwright in the English language, but how does he measure up as a historian? In this bril...
Jerusalem: The Biography
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs.” —Booklist (starred) Jerusalem i...
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower a...
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality a...
Dark Psychology
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dark Psychology
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor  ...
John Julius Norwich - A History of France
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Julius Norwich―called a “true master of narrative history” by Simon Sebag Montefiore―returns with the book he has spent his disting...
Robert Cialdini-Instant Influence
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Cialdini-Instant Influence
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at &nb...
Theodore Roosevelt Book I and II by Edmund Morris (III - Colonel Roosevelt in another episode)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This classic biography is the story of seven men—a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a ranchman, a soldier, and a politician...
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-...
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banki...
A People's History of the United States: Highlights from the Twentieth Century
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"A wonderful, splendid book - a book that should be ready by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, it...
Diogenes Laertius - Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain &n...
Lenin on the Train
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zur...
Plutarch: Moralia
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Moralia (Ancient Greek: Ἠθικά Ethika; loosely translated as "Morals" or "Matters relating to customs and mores") is a group of m...
Plutarch Lives
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Lives” is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch who lived during the first and second...
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, &nbs...
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize...
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of th...
E. B. Potter - Nimitz (Unabridged)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II is con...
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers, from Plato to Dewey. Few write for the non-specialist as wel...
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of ...
Julius Caesar - The Commentaries (Unabridged)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julius Caesar wrote his exciting Commentaries during some of the most grueling campaigns ever undertaken by a Roman army. The Gallic Wars and &n...
Edward O. Wilson - On Human Nature
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away with a &n...
The Great Terror A Reassessment
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It's hard to overestimate the impact that Robert Conquest's extraordinary study had on the West's perceptions of Soviet history. Using ra...
South: The Story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition Kindle Edition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
South: The Story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition Kindle Edition by ...
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue - bringing the book completely up to date on the tumu...
James Q. Whitman - Hitler's American Model
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United &nbs...
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a ri...
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of Julius Caesar's life, Adrian Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as &n...
Toland - Rising Sun The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-Times This Pulitzer Prize...
Andrew Hogan, Douglas Century - Hunting El Chapo
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller -...
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded by ignorance and fear. What is the essence of this ancient ...
Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The surprising rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story of how Michael Jackson grew a billion-dollar business. Michael Jackson is known by many as...
Talking to Strangers What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know Malcom Gladwell
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in...
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-base...
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This program includes an introduction read by the author. No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled w...
Lee Kuan Yew - The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World - Graham Allison
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime mi...
Lenin: A New Biography
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The special assistant to Boris Yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of Lenin with a biography based on secret Soviet archives, r...
Striking Back The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response–a lethal,...
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the m...
The Story of Christianity, Volume 1, Revised and Updated - The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation (Justo Gonzales)
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Story of Christianity: Volume 1, Justo L. González, author of the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought, presents a n...
The Pirate Queen - Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical,...
A Short History of Myth - Karen Armstrong
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Human beings have always been mythmakers.” So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: ...
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal The Pul...
The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland 'Masterful and engros...
Christopher Clark - Iron Kingdom The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Unabridged)
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished … Iron K...
Andrew Skilton - A Concise History of Buddhism From 500 BCE-1900 CE
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An ideal introduction to the history of Buddhism. Andrew Skilton - a writer on and practitioner of Buddhism - explains the development of the &n...
Colonel Roosevelt
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as ...
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an eight-part AMC crime drama starring James Nort...
Christopher Hibbert - The House of Medici - Its Rise and Fall
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At its height, Renaissance Florence was a center of enormous wealth, power, and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and ban...
Karen Amrstrong - Muhammad
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the best-selling author of Islam: A Short History comes an important addition to the Eminent Lives book series. A former Roman Catholic nun and w...