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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond Ph.D.

4.5 on Amazon

10 HN comments

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell and Pushkin Industries

4.4 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Energy and Civilization: A History (The MIT Press)

Vaclav Smil

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

4.3 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government

Thomas Paine and Coventry House Publishing

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Jared Diamond

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins, Tim Paige, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Reeves Wiedeman

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)

Tim Marshall

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi, Christopher Dontrell Piper, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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adamcstephensonApr 8, 2021

Sadly I also realize how cruel humans can be towards each other. It’s amazing what ideology can drive people to do.

Thanks, I’ll check the book out. I’m currently reading the Jakarta Method though, so I’ll need a break with something a bit less bleak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method

nextsteponJune 15, 2021

I would nightly recommend ”The Jakarta Method”, published last year, and a very personal telling of the CIA’s support of the mass-murder program in Indonesia in the 1960’s (and then how this tactic was reused in a few other coups in Latin America when things were dangerously close to becoming too democratic).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method

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