 | Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
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 | The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America by Allan M. Brandt
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 | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
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 | The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power by Daniel Yergin
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 | A History of Warfare by John Keegan
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.92 Probably the best military historian around.
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 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester
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 | Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
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 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
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 | Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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 | Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
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 | Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.21 Excellent social history of spices: their allure and attraction to European explorers.
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 | The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade by Charles Corn
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 | The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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 | The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.05 Excellent book: part history, part travelogue, tracing the lore and history of diamonds.
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 | Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S.) by Kenneth R. Miller
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 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.89 Risk: Balancing loss against profit. (As in the Insurance Business)
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 | The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby
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 | The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history by John M. Barry
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.29 Excellent treatise on the origin and spread of Influenza.
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 | Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
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 | Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
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 | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
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 | Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
Buy new: $14.04 / Used from: $0.11 Prize-winning account of how the Great Flood affected public policy: housing, medical care, etc. Very percreptive in light of Katrina.
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 | Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Michael Hecht
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 | The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein
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