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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Frans de Waal

408 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.75socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

2.75socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative fast-paced
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution

Mike Duncan

512 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction biography history challenging reflective medium-paced
Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo

Robert E. Lee: A Life

Allen C. Guelzo

608 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

3.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman

Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

Spencer Ackerman

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Neil Price

The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

656 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Stephen Budiansky

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction autobiography biography historical science technology informative medium-paced
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes

A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution

Orlando Figes

1024 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
White Malice: the CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

White Malice: the CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

Susan Williams

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0socraticgadfly's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative sad slow-paced