Browsing Books by Books Like Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (1955)
Gentleness, serenity, and compassion through liberation from selfish craving- these are the fundamen...

The Demon-haunted World (1997)
Reveals the dangers associated with widespread scientific ignorance, and explains how scientific tho...

Undaunted Courage (2002)
A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships ...

John Adams (2008)
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusett...

The World is Flat (2007)
A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see thi...

1491 (2006)
Describes how recent archaeological research has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, rev...

Freakonomics (2005)
The author offers his view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)
A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic ga...

Crime and Punishment (1987)
A psychological study of the guilt one man finds after he murders an old woman. Raskolnikov, the fir...

The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
Clarifies the seemingly implausible aspects of Darwin's theory, drawing on the famous watch comparis...

The Ancestor's Tale (2005)
A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth,...

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2011)
The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced...

On Writing (2002)
The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his ow...

The Moral Animal (1995)
A study on evolutionary psychology implements Darwinian theory that identifies the inherent nature o...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003)
Looks at the history of punctuation and the rules governing the use of apostrophes, commas, dashes, ...

Blink (2005)
In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world...