Books like The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
12 books with a reading profile close to The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Erik Larson chronicles the five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the surrender of Fort Sumter.
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Sam Kean organizes the history of the world through the chemical elements, moving beyond the sterile rows of the periodic table to reveal the human chaos behind scientific discovery.
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One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Bill Bryson chronicles the rapid cultural and technological shifts in American life during five months in 1927.
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1418, the architects of Florence faced a structural crisis: the massive central opening of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral remained uncovered, as no known building method could support a dome of such scale withou…
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By the Sword
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Richard Cohen chronicles the technical and cultural evolution of swordplay from ancient Egypt to the modern Olympic Games.
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Consider the Eel
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Richard Schweid tracks the biological lifecycle of the eel from its mysterious breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to its development in the freshwater rivers of Europe and North America.
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A Concise History of Greece
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Richard Clogg examines the evolution of the Greek state from the initial stages of the national movement in the late eighteenth century through the political shifts of the early 2000s.
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In the early 1940s, the United States government constructed Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a secret city carved out of rural farmland to house seventy thousand residents working on the Manhattan Project.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Thomas Cahill argues that during the fifth century, as Germanic tribes dismantled the Roman Empire and burned its libraries, the classical tradition survived only on the remote island of Ireland.
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan moved beyond the deep South to establish a stronghold in the American Midwest, specifically Indiana.
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Stephen Ambrose reconstructs the Allied invasion of France through hundreds of oral histories from the men who fought on the ground.
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Stephen E.
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