Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples

7 best books like Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples (Neil MacGregor): Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, Kjærlighet, Three Tang Dynasty Poets, The (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication: Go From Relationships to Referrals, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Author	Jared Diamond
ISBN	0316409138

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.

In his international...

Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Author	Frank Dikötter
ISBN	0747595089

Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives....

Kjærlighet

Author	Hanne Ørstavik
ISBN	8249504216

‘’A path into the forest, from a long-forgotten place.
Find the path and follow, its ribbon yours to trace.
Past trees and hillocks wander, to a splendid castle old,
In whose halls three ladies fine you shall at last behold.
The prince they there await, if ever he should come.
A...

Three Tang Dynasty Poets

Author	Wang Wei
ISBN	0141398205

'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'

A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

The (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication: Go From Relationships to Referrals

Author	Michael J. Maher
ISBN	1452033978

How many of your clients would attend your funeral? One of the top real estate professionals in the country has written a book that details how he became "America's Most Referred Real Estate Professional". In (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication, Michael J. Maher tells the inspiring story of real...

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Author	Chinua Achebe
ISBN	1594204829

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war

The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970....

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

Author	John Barton
ISBN	0241003911

A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents were selected - and how it really relates to the religions that endorse it

The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is no proper history of it. This exceptional work,...