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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

Modern History #3

Eric Hobsbawm

448 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991

Modern History #4

Eric Hobsbawm

672 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

464 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, Second Edition by Steven Strogatz

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, Second Edition

Studies in Nonlinearity

Steven Strogatz

532 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative medium-paced
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

490 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

729 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

316 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

William Manchester

336 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Cambridge Hegel Translations

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

640 pages • first pub 1807 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Thomas Hobbes

555 pages • first pub 1651 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Authoritarian Personality by Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel J. Levinson

The Authoritarian Personality

Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel J. Levinson

1072 pages • first pub 1950 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics psychology informative medium-paced
Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Joan Roughgarden

474 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction gender nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Naive Set Theory by Paul R. Halmos

Naive Set Theory

Paul R. Halmos

114 pages • first pub 1960 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced