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pages: 264 words: 68,108

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by Mason Currey
Published 22 Apr 2013

pages: 376 words: 91,192

Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
by Garson O'Toole
Published 1 Apr 2017

Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Sixth Edition
by Kindleberger, Charles P. and Robert Z., Aliber
Published 9 Aug 2011

pages: 251 words: 44,888

The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart: 1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be Able to Use
by Bobbi Bly
Published 18 Mar 2009

pages: 305 words: 101,093

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu
Published 23 Jan 2024

pages: 559 words: 174,054

The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug
by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer
Published 5 Dec 2000

pages: 381 words: 113,173

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee
Published 14 Nov 2023

pages: 935 words: 267,358

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty
Published 10 Mar 2014

How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
by Richard Cohen
Published 16 May 2016

pages: 324 words: 101,552

The Pineapple: King of Fruits
by Francesca Beauman
Published 22 Feb 2011

pages: 401 words: 108,855

Cultureshock Paris
by Cultureshock Staff
Published 6 Oct 2010

pages: 382 words: 105,166

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
by Jacob Soll
Published 28 Apr 2014

pages: 142 words: 5,823

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
by Alice Miller
Published 2 Jan 1981

The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market
by Paul de Grauwe and Anna Asbury
Published 12 Mar 2017

Ukraine
by Lonely Planet

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
by Orlando Figes
Published 7 Oct 2019

pages: 225 words: 189

The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
by Robert D. Kaplan
Published 1 Jan 1994

pages: 564 words: 153,720

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
by Mark Pendergrast
Published 2 Jan 2000

pages: 668 words: 159,523

Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
by Augustine Sedgewick
Published 6 Apr 2020

pages: 230 words: 62,294

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop
by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger
Published 1 Jan 1999

Frommer's Paris 2013
by Kate van Der Boogert
Published 24 Sep 2012

pages: 239 words: 56,531

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld
Published 31 Mar 2011

pages: 373 words: 80,248

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by Chris Hedges
Published 12 Jul 2009

pages: 272 words: 78,876

Heart: A History
by Sandeep Jauhar
Published 17 Sep 2018

pages: 317 words: 79,633

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson
Published 1 Jul 2018

pages: 281 words: 86,657

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Published 23 Apr 2012

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
Published 16 Oct 2017

pages: 324 words: 86,056

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara
Published 1 Feb 2019

pages: 363 words: 92,422

A Fine Mess
by T. R. Reid
Published 13 Mar 2017

pages: 287 words: 93,908

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
by Gail Steketee and Randy Frost
Published 19 Apr 2010

The Fractalist
by Benoit Mandelbrot
Published 30 Oct 2012

pages: 309 words: 87,414

Paris Revealed
by Stephen Clarke
Published 12 Aug 2012

pages: 209 words: 89,619

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing
Published 27 Feb 2011

pages: 327 words: 90,542

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
by Satyajit Das
Published 9 Feb 2016

pages: 371 words: 93,570

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans
Published 6 Mar 2018

pages: 308 words: 94,447

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Published 11 Feb 2014

pages: 304 words: 96,930

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
by Taylor Clark
Published 5 Nov 2007

pages: 336 words: 97,204

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
by A. N. Wilson
Published 3 Jun 2020

pages: 415 words: 103,801

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by Jonathan Kaufman
Published 14 Sep 2020

Lonely Planet France
by Lonely Planet Publications
Published 31 Mar 2013

pages: 366 words: 117,875

Arrival City
by Doug Saunders
Published 22 Mar 2011

pages: 405 words: 113,895

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans
Published 11 Mar 2024

pages: 401 words: 122,457

Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
Published 28 Jan 2003

Innovation and Its Enemies
by Calestous Juma
Published 20 Mar 2017

pages: 890 words: 133,829

Sardinia Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

pages: 592 words: 133,460

Worn: A People's History of Clothing
by Sofi Thanhauser
Published 25 Jan 2022

pages: 458 words: 132,912

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson
Published 15 Nov 2021

pages: 476 words: 139,761

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
by Tom Burgis
Published 7 Sep 2020

pages: 444 words: 139,784

How to Read a Book
by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren
Published 14 Jun 1972

pages: 976 words: 329,519

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans
Published 31 Aug 2016

pages: 482 words: 149,807

A History of France
by John Julius Norwich
Published 30 Sep 2018

pages: 618 words: 159,672

Fodor's Rome: With the Best City Walks and Scenic Day Trips
by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.
Published 24 Sep 2012

pages: 740 words: 161,563

The Discovery of France
by Graham Robb
Published 1 Jan 2007

pages: 855 words: 178,507

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
Published 1 Mar 2011

pages: 735 words: 165,375

The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler
Published 14 Sep 2021

pages: 688 words: 190,793

The Rough Guide to Paris
by Rough Guides
Published 1 May 2023

pages: 687 words: 204,164

Back to Blood
by Tom Wolfe
Published 1 Jan 2012

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by Nicola Williams
Published 14 Oct 2010

I You We Them
by Dan Gretton

pages: 1,336 words: 415,037

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Published 1 Sep 2008

Germany Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Germany
by Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Published 17 Oct 2010

pages: 1,799 words: 532,462

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet
by David Kahn
Published 1 Feb 1963

Europe: A History
by Norman Davies
Published 1 Jan 1996