Browsing Books by Books Like Guns, Germs, and Steel

A Painted House (2004)
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old bo...

A Wizard of Earthsea (2004)
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentic...

The Plague (1948)
A novel with the dreaded plagues as the powerful force affecting people....

A Blaze of Glory (2012)
A fictional account of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, told from the perspectives of ...

The River of Doubt (2005)
Chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin t...

The First Three Minutes (1993)
Now featuring a major new epilogue that brings the story up to date, this classic work by a Nobel Pr...

Benjamin Franklin (2003)
Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strate...

Foundation and Empire (2008)
The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy, while also strug...

Retire Downtown (2006)
Are you a Ruppie? More and more people are trending toward living downtown. Author Kyle Ezell demons...

Against the Gods (1998)
A blend of biography and history shows how famous scientists and creative amateurs developed the con...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (1998)
Presents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary odditie...

The Selfish Gene (2006)
An ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit....

Any Place I Hang My Hat (2007)
Growing up under the care of her financially disadvantaged grandmother after her mother's abandonmen...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1998)
Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civili...

The Violet Fairy Book (1966)
Thirty-five tales of fairies, ogres, bewitched mortals, and haunted forests are collected from the o...

A Man Without a Country (2005)
Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated...