Tag: history

Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs - "Acidhead Phone Hackers Design Usable Computers"

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Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs

Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel - "a history of the domestication of agriculture plus a few other random things"

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Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel

Reader Submission: Raymond Drainville

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage - "I Ran Away But I'm Back Now"

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Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage

Reader Submission: Jim McDoniel

Steve Coll: Ghost Wars - "No Ghost Fights, Just A Bunch Of Stories About The U.S. Funding The Taliban For Years"

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Steve Coll: Ghost Wars

Norman Davies: Europe: A History - "After Six Months, I'm Still On Page 63"

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Norman Davies: Europe: A History

William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - "Better Than The History Channel At Helping Me Nap"

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William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States - "White People Ruin Everything"

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Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States

Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates - "Athens Kills Its Best Unemployed Wise-Ass"

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Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

funny alternate title for guns germs and steel, better book title I read this book but it was a really long time ago

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Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel

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