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10 best books like The Ants (Bert Hölldobler): The Mismeasure of Man, Mark Twain, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, On Growth and Form, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions, Florence Nightingale, The American Language, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980, The Strange Death of Liberal England

The Mismeasure of Man
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN0393314251
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it" and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition...
Mark Twain
AuthorRon Powers
ISBN0743249011
Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's,...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0060845503
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
On Growth and Form
AuthorD'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
This book is a meticulous work that's both thought provoking and inspiring in its scope. There are plenty of profound, even poetic, insights scattered throughout a density of seemingly sterile precision. An especially interesting holism can be found in the chapter titled 'On the Theory of Transformations,...
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
AuthorRichard Fortey
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions
AuthorMark W. Moffett
ISBN0520261992
Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Mark W. Moffett, “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” takes us around the globe on a strange and colorful journey in search of the hidden world of ants. In tales from Nigeria, Indonesia, the Amazon, Australia, California, and elsewhere,...
Florence Nightingale
AuthorCecil Woodham-Smith
ISBN0689706529
I don't usually write reviews because I feel I can never do the book justice. But for this one I'm going to try.
If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Incredibly well-written, well organized, and obviously well researched.
I love reading biographies but I've often found the biographer...
The American Language
AuthorH.L. Mencken
ISBN0394400755
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore....
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
AuthorJonathan D. Spence
ISBN0140062793
 “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)
 
In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers,...
The Strange Death of Liberal England
AuthorGeorge Dangerfield
ISBN0804729301
At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a resounding electoral triumph in 1906, the Liberals formed the government of the most powerful nation...
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