History Book Summaries
Discover curated book summaries in the History category.
History (17 books)
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
A Short History of Nearly Everything
"If you imagine the 4,500-billion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours."
Homo Deus
A History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
"In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power."
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Prisoners of Geography
Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
At Home
A Short History of Private Life
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Humankind
A Hopeful History
The Power of Myth
"Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told."