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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution

9 best books like Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Laurent Dubois): The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003, Sly Mongoose, These Truths: A History of the United States, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008, PLUTO: 浦沢 直樹 x 手塚 治虫 005, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
AuthorJames Gleick
ISBN0375423729
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
 
The...
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
AuthorRob Goodman
ISBN0312681232
The first biography of the final man to stand against Caesar—whose principles and defiance became a rallying cry for future revolutions

He was Rome’s bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier who slept on the ground with his troops, a Stoic philosopher and staunch defender of the...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN1421519208
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets....
Sly Mongoose
AuthorTobias S. Buckell
ISBN0765319209
Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and...
These Truths: A History of the United States
AuthorJill Lepore
ISBN0393357422
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN1421519216
Damn! I thought this series was slightly stumbling in the last volume and was getting ready but then BAM volume 4 kicked it into high fucking gear.

Right off the bat we're given a sweet bitter story about a scientist trying to save a robot puppy. When the "owner" comes to visit it comes to a surprise...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
Series review. Spoiler free! (For Pluto anyway, original Astro Boy spoilers allowed, you've had 50+ years, the spoiler statute of limitations has expired.)

As far as I'm concerned, this is Urasawa and Nagasaki's masterpiece. It's a reimagining of "The Greatest Robot on Earth" (地上最大のロボット)...
PLUTO: 浦沢 直樹 x 手塚 治虫 005
AuthorNaoki Urasawa
ISBN4091815561
Pluto is past it's midway point so a lot is being revealed.

This book mostly focuses on Gesicht and his past. It's a interesting take on the whole "did I or did I not kill a human" and one I thought was handled well. I also like how everything is coming undone. There's no hero so far who is stopping this...
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
AuthorJoshua Robinson
ISBN1328506452
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet.
 
This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a...
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