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ckochx rated Packing for Mars: 5 stars
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, Mary Roach
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is …
ckochx rated Unauthorized Bread: 5 stars
Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow
New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread -- a novella about immigration, the toxicity of economic and technological …
ckochx rated Doughnut Economics: 5 stars
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist is a 2017 non-fiction book by Oxford economist Kate Raworth. …
ckochx rated Shinsengumi: 4 stars
Romulus Hillsborough: Shinsengumi (2005, Tuttle Pub.)
Shinsengumi by Romulus Hillsborough
The Tokugawa Shogunate, a group of military governors who ruled Japan until the late 1800s, stayed in power for more …
ckochx rated The Fire Next Time: 4 stars
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice …
ckochx rated She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman: 4 stars
ckochx rated Devolution: 4 stars
Devolution by Max Brooks
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has …
ckochx rated Say Nothing: 5 stars
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this …
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Zone One is a 2011 novel by author Colson Whitehead. Blending elements of genre fiction and literary fiction, the novel …
ckochx rated Salt: a world history: 3 stars
Salt: a world history by Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing …
ckochx rated The Water Dancer: 3 stars
ckochx rated King Leopold’s Ghost: 5 stars
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, Adam Hochschild
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the …
ckochx rated Hardcore History: 4 stars
ckochx rated Benito Cereno: 4 stars
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at …