mimi10v3History organized around surprising causal machinery—codebreakers, crops, energy, exploration, empire, and pre-Columbian worlds. The preference is for narratives that revise the simple story rather than decorate it.
The recorded ratings average 6.5/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Jared Diamond.
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
About the bookLiza Mundy’s narrative history recovers the hidden labor of more than ten thousand American women who served as cryptanalysts during World War II. Recruited from both small towns and el…
8/10Humans : History1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
About the bookCharles C. Mann dismantles the traditional narrative of the pre-Columbian Americas as a sparsely populated wilderness, arguing instead that the hemisphere was a densely inhabited, heavi…
8/10Humans : HistoryGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
About the bookJared Diamond, a geographer and physiologist, poses a deceptively simple question: why did Eurasian societies develop guns, steel, and writing technologies that allowed them to conquer…
8/10Humans : HistoryTemples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs
About the bookBarbara Mertz, a professional Egyptologist and novelist, offers a lively and accessible introduction to ancient Egyptian civilization and the modern field of Egyptology. The book demyst…
