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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates
From early hominids to modern societies, Sapiens offers a sweeping overview of human history. Exploring key developments in cognition, agriculture, and technology, Yuval Noah Harari examines how Homo sapiens came to dominate the planet.
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
A “thrilling” (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by pre-eminent scholar, Neil Price, "Children of Ash and Elm" tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, and beliefs to the lands and peoples they encountered.
2012 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt tells the remarkable story of how a rediscovered ancient text, "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, ignited the Renaissance and transformed modern thought. Blending history, philosophy, and biography, Greenblatt reveals how this discovery reshaped science, art, and culture. Ideal for history enthusiasts, this Pulitzer-winning book illuminates a pivotal moment in human history
