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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

Charles C. Mann

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Coming Apart

Charles Murray

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

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The Lost City of the Monkey God

Douglas Preston

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The forward move on to the American continent was the work not of princes or capitalists at home in Europe, but of gold-hungry frontiersmen spurred on by the rapid exhaustion of the islands’ deposits. Without the short-lived gold rush on the Caribbean islands and the nearby Tierra Firme, the impetus towards the territorial conquest of the mainland

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)

Jared Diamond

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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Simon Johnson

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