Shores Beyond Shores

By Irene Butter (2018) Pages: 445, Final verdict: Must-read Like so many Jewish families, the life of the Hasenbergs was shaken as the Nazis rose to power in Germany. In Shores beyond Shores, Irene Butter walks us, in the first person, through her family’s terrorizing experience during World War... Read more

History Autobiography

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman (2019) Pages: 400, Final verdict: Great-read Rutger Bregman is not your average historian. 32, Dutch, he rose to fame with his 2014 best-seller Utopia for Realists, where he shared his thesis for reconstructing modern society with "utopian" like universal basic income or a shorter workweek. His stardom... Read more

Sociology

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By Bill Bryson (2019) Pages: 450, Final verdict: Should-read In the early 2000s I remember seeing an odd book at the front store of a bookshop. Its unusual title - A Short History of Nearly Everything - caught my attention. It told the story of the world (starting with the... Read more

Biology

Henrique Cruz

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Shores Beyond Shores

Humankind: A Hopeful History

The Body: A Guide for Occupants