82 books · PrimordialGoodSoup

On History and Human Behaviour

Heretics and heroes: how Renaissance artists and Reformation priests create...

Thomas Cahill

★ 4.0

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Joan Breton Connelly

★ 5.0

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Ed...

Neil Postman, Andrew Postman

★ 5.0

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

★ 5.0

The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains

Thomas W. Laqueur

★ 5.0

Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society

John Lane

★ 5.0

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul

★ 5.0

Monstrosity : the Human Monster in Visual Culture

Wright, Alexa

★ 5.0

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

★ 5.0

Extreme North: A Cultural History

Bernd Brunner

★ 5.0

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

★ 5.0

Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

Karen Oslund; William Cronon

★ 5.0

Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society

Gunnar Karlsson

★ 4.0

In the Arms of Morpheus. The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine and Paten...

Barbara Hodgson

★ 5.0

A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Mo...

Ernest Freeberg

★ 5.0

The Martians Have Landed!: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes

Robert E. Bartholomew, Benjamin Radford

★ 5.0

Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

James J. O'Donnell

★ 5.0

Science of the magical: from the Holy Grail to love potions to superpowers

Kaplan, Matt

★ 5.0

Cataclysms: An Environmental History of Humanity

Laurent Testot

★ 4.0

In Defense of Flogging

Moskos, Peter

★ 5.0

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America

Craig Childs

★ 5.0

After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

Mithen Steven

★ 4.0

Pathogenesis : A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy;

★ 5.0

The earth moved: on the remarkable achievements of earthworms

Stewart, Amy

★ 5.0