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Books like De l'esprit des lois
Loved De l'esprit des lois by Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from history, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Sapiens
A sweeping history of humanity from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present, arguing that what made humans uniquely powerful was the ability to create and believe in shared fictions — nations, religions, money — that allowed large-scale social cooperation impossible for other species. One of the bestselling non-fiction books of the 21st century.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Why some societies came to dominate others, argued from geography rather than race; sweeping and influential.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Great Migration of Black Americans told through three unforgettable lives; monumental narrative history.
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The uncommercial traveller
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
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Clouds
The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department presents Aristophanes' "The Clouds," translated by William Arrowsmith, directed by Leo Brady, choral interpretation by Josephine McGarry
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Frogs
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so
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Medea
"Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to ac
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Hiroshima
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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The Innocents Abroad
Twain's letters about his steamship voyage of 1867.
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A People's History of the United States
American history told from the bottom up; a deliberately partisan and hugely influential counter-narrative.