 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $9.77 / Used from: $3.88 |
 | Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives by Edvard Radzinsky
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $5.93 best ww2 biography
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 | 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Buy used from: $1.97 |
 | Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.99 awesome
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 | Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.97 the turning point of ww2, superb writing
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 | Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
Buy new: $13.63 / Used from: $8.58 autobiography, very very good
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 | Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.20 it's small but had a huge impact on history
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 | The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and "The Lord of the Rings" by Brian Bates
Buy used from: $12.75 anglo-saxon and nordic mythology and magic
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 | Darwin's Mistake: Antediluvian Discoveries Prove Dinosaurs and Humans Co-Existed by Hans-Joachim Zillmer
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $10.00 |
 | The Thin Red Line by James Jones
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 better than the movie
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 | The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 how bush stole the election with a racist computer program
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 | The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $4.21 very cool book
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 | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $6.72 made the congo his personal country based on slave labor
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 | Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo A. Dallaire
Buy used from: $16.90 *haven't read yet*
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 | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Buy used from: $1.95 a quick read
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 | Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.83 glad the cold war is over...some scary stuff
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 | A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $3.19 not bad at all, some unexpected humor
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 | The History of Pirates by Angus Konstam
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.96 more of a coffee table book w/nice illustrations
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 | Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.85 Super Size Me
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 | Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Charlie A. Beckwith
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.88 from the guy who created the unit
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