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Mary Beard's history of Rome is witty, skeptical and full of fresh angles, but its [...]

Harari's sweeping history of humankind is hugely readable and full of provocative ideas, but specialists [...]

A short, sharp and still unsettling manual of power that rewards careful reading, though its [...]

Miller's fast-paced history shows how microchips became the world's most strategic chokepoint; essential for understanding [...]

A dazzling, combative rethink of early human societies that will widen your sense of what [...]

Sun Tzu's short classic is still sharp on deception, preparation and winning without fighting, but [...]

Bryson makes the history of science funny and gripping, but he favors anecdotes over explanations, [...]

Piketty's massive history of wealth and inequality is the most influential economics bestseller in decades, [...]

A candid, fast-moving account of how DNA's structure was found, badly marred by its belittling [...]

Harari's history of information networks offers a sharp framework for thinking about AI and democracy, [...]

Smith's founding work of economics is sharper, more humane and more critical of business than [...]

Diamond's Pulitzer-winning explanation of why Eurasian societies came to dominate is brilliant big-picture history, though [...]