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The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan

8 best books like The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan (Ben Macintyre): I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, The Female Man, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Sundiver, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
AuthorBill Bryson
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted...
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
AuthorJodi Kantor
ISBN0525560343
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement

For many years, reporters...
The Female Man
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0807063134
I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.

I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
AuthorJared Diamond
ISBN0316409138
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...
Sundiver
AuthorDavid Brin
ISBN0553269828
Aus Band 1: Wer gab der Menschheit "Starthilfe"?

Schon längst ist die Menschheit nicht mehr die einzige intelligente Spezies auf dem Planeten. Als die Menschen ins Weltall vorstoßen und auf andere hoch entwickelte Zivilisationen treffen, ergeben sich allerdings Fragen: Hat sich die...
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
AuthorTom Phillips
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
AuthorPeter Heather
ISBN0195325419
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overtuned the existing strategic...
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
AuthorSimon Winder
ISBN0374254001
A unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner

Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon...
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