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  • Autumn Carolynn The best books to take with you on the plane before your international travel adventure Book cover of Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World Book cover of The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia Book cover of The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World Book cover of The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life Book cover of Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America
  • Melissa Addey The best non-fiction books to immerse yourself in Ancient Rome Book cover of Rome: In Spectacular Cross-Section Book cover of Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women ... The Romans That History Forgot Book cover of Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire Book cover of 24 Hours in Ancient Rome Book cover of Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
  • Joel Stein The best books on saving democracy from populism Book cover of The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography Book cover of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Book cover of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Book cover of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters Book cover of The Age of American Unreason
  • Kathryn Lomas The best books on the ancient Mediterranean Book cover of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Book cover of The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others Book cover of Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History Book cover of The Carthaginians Book cover of Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian
  • Simon Turney The best books on the ancient city of Rome Book cover of Dans la Rome des Césars Book cover of 24 Hours in Ancient Rome Book cover of Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide Book cover of A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire Book cover of How to Survive in Ancient Rome
  • Steven Nightingale The best books telling the truth about Spanish history Book cover of The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture Book cover of The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Book cover of The Legacy of Muslim Spain Volume 1 Book cover of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Book cover of The Spanish Inquisition
  • Yang Ye The best books to understand China, and its people and civilization Book cover of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China Book cover of The Arts of China Book cover of The Art of Chinese Poetry Book cover of Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China Book cover of Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington’s Chinese Garden
  • Nigel Rodgers The best books showing daily life in ancient Athens and Rome (at their respective peaks) Book cover of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian Book cover of Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic Book cover of The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome Book cover of The Penguin Dictionary of Ancient History Book cover of Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matter
  • Steven D. Smith The best books about why Western civilization is falling apart Book cover of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory Book cover of Love in the Ruins Book cover of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life Book cover of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book cover of A Study of History: Volume I: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI
  • Tim Rayborn The best books on British folklore and customs Book cover of In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past Book cover of The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain Book cover of The Way of Wyrd Book cover of The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain Book cover of Good Omens
  • Sue Wilkes The best history books for understanding Jane Austen’s England Book cover of Jane Austen: Writer in the World Book cover of Jane Austen: A Life Book cover of Jane Austen and the Clergy Book cover of Passages In The Life Of A Radical And Early Days, Volume 1 Book cover of Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
  • Tristram Riley-Smith The best books about the United States Of America Book cover of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Book cover of The Colonial Experience Book cover of Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence Book cover of Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe Book cover of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
  • Benjamin M. Friedman The best books on economics, religion, and society Book cover of Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia Book cover of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism Book cover of The Kingdom Is Always But Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch Book cover of The Age of Reform Book cover of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
  • James C. Cobb The best books that "tell about the South" Book cover of The Mind of the South Book cover of Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom Book cover of The Burden of Southern History Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Book cover of Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War
  • Paul Cartledge The best books on ancient Athens in the time of Pericles Book cover of The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece Book cover of Pericles of Athens Book cover of The History of the Peloponnesian War Book cover of Hubris Book cover of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
  • Nicholas Morton The best books about the Mongol conquest of Western Eurasia Book cover of The Mongol Empire Book cover of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World Book cover of Nomads in the Middle East Book cover of The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion Book cover of Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
  • Shweta Mahendra The best books connecting past, present and future civilization Book cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Book cover of The Alchemist Book cover of Srimad Bhagavad Gita Book cover of Sociological Theory Book cover of The Iliad & The Odyssey
  • Tamim Ansary The best books on the human story as a single whole Book cover of Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud Book cover of Debt: The First 5,000 Years Book cover of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Book cover of China in Ten Words Book cover of Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs: A Look at the Neuroscience of Innovation & Creativity in Art, Science & Life
  • David Head The best books to understand what made American Revolution soldiers tick Book cover of A Proper Sense of Honor: Service and Sacrifice in George Washington's Army Book cover of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era Book cover of A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 Book cover of Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War Book cover of Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lieutenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780-1783
  • Hussein Fancy The best books that capture the paradoxes of medieval Spain Book cover of The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain Book cover of Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages Book cover of The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 Book cover of Medieval Iberia, Second Edition: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources Book cover of The Moor's Last Sigh
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