The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus

8 best books like The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Charles King): The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

Author	Timothy C. Winegard
ISBN	0735235791

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Author	Kapka Kassabova
ISBN	1555977863

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...

Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction

Author	Malise Ruthven
ISBN	0199212708

Fundamentalism is seen as the major threat to world peace today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11, 2001. But what does "fundamentalism" really mean?
Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term "fundamentalist"...

On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

Author	James K.A. Smith
ISBN	1587433893

This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us...

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

Author	Ben Mezrich
ISBN	0743225708

I love books about casinos! There really aren't enough of them. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions follows six M.I.T. students who form a blackjack card-counting team. There were so many interesting nuggets of information throughout this gem....

Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America

Author	Kate Pickert
ISBN	0316470325

The science, culture and history of breast cancer as told by a reporter who survived it

As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly...

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Author	Jill Heinerth
ISBN	0062691546

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet

More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...