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History & Big Ideas✱

Sweeping accounts of humanity, civilisation, and the forces that shaped the present. Perspective at scale.

Cover of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari

443 pp·9h read

Cover of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel

480 pp·10h read

Cover of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

544 pp·11h read

Cover of The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

The Lessons of History

Will & Ariel Durant

128 pp·3h read

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Big Ideas: How We Got Here

The human story, the forces of geography, and the cosmos that made it all.

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