Histories of the Everyday

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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born 4.05 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
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Beans: A History
Beans: A History 3.65 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s
Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s 4.10 avg rating — 726 ratings
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Bicycle: The History
Bicycle: The History 3.86 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Color
The Secret Lives of Color 4.04 avg rating — 19,339 ratings
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Breakfast: A History
Breakfast: A History 3.60 avg rating — 179 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival
The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage And The Quest To Build The First Computer
The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage And The Quest To Build The First Computer 3.76 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet 3.51 avg rating — 3,855 ratings
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Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine 3.95 avg rating — 2,742 ratings
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder 3.50 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History 3.99 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair 3.70 avg rating — 494 ratings
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It's About Time: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History
It's About Time: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History
by: Liz Evers
3.07 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese
Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese 3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug 4.11 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Beer in America: The Early Years--1587-1840: Beer's Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation
Beer in America: The Early Years--1587-1840: Beer's Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation 3.45 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Pie: A Global History (The Edible Series)
Pie: A Global History (The Edible Series) 3.73 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Pigeons
Pigeons 3.82 avg rating — 1,270 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: From Joseph Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraordinary People
The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: From Joseph Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraordinary People 2.93 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir 3.79 avg rating — 3,231 ratings
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Tears of Mermaids
Tears of Mermaids 3.50 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain 4.23 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language 3.73 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Women in the Viking Age
Women in the Viking Age 3.92 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle 4.12 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
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Chocolate
Chocolate 3.74 avg rating — 366 ratings
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The Roman Cookery of Apicius
The Roman Cookery of Apicius
by: Apicius
3.82 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance
Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance 3.71 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London 3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World
'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World 3.65 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart 3.52 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Salt: Grain of Life
Salt: Grain of Life 2.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A Brief History of the Smile
A Brief History of the Smile 3.12 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit 3.96 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
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Dr. Johnson's London
Dr. Johnson's London 4.04 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking
Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking 3.91 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things
Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things
by: Joel Levy
3.44 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Jewels: A Secret History
Jewels: A Secret History 4.14 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
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A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement
A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement 3.22 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
by: Bill Laws
3.68 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,468 ratings
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Women in Anglo-Saxon England
Women in Anglo-Saxon England 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Oranges
Oranges 4.03 avg rating — 3,760 ratings
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Virgin: The Untouched History
Virgin: The Untouched History 3.95 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating — 25,619 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History 3.89 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture 3.30 avg rating — 122 ratings
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History of Beauty
History of Beauty 3.83 avg rating — 65,523 ratings
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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol 3.86 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History 3.82 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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The Edge of the World
The Edge of the World 3.57 avg rating — 2,755 ratings
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life 4.06 avg rating — 4,692 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us 3.71 avg rating — 359 ratings
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life 4.25 avg rating — 7,474 ratings
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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity
Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity 3.52 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Checkered Fences
Checkered Fences 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Aroma
Aroma 4.03 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar
The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar 3.65 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Goodbye Crackernight
Goodbye Crackernight 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Principal of Rivington Street
The Principal of Rivington Street 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace
Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace 4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Where the Irish Spoke of Chemistry
Where the Irish Spoke of Chemistry 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,265 ratings
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Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works 4.15 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Digging Dusky Diamonds
Digging Dusky Diamonds 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Big Apples of New York: The Story of How New York State Became the Big Apple
The Big Apples of New York: The Story of How New York State Became the Big Apple it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History 3.93 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life 1912 to 2012
Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life 1912 to 2012 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Anatomy of Dessert: With a Few Notes on Wine
The Anatomy of Dessert: With a Few Notes on Wine 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law
The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Cheesemonger
Cheesemonger 3.77 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Monet's Palate Cookbook: The Artist & His Kitchen Garden At Giverny
Monet's Palate Cookbook: The Artist & His Kitchen Garden At Giverny 4.40 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius: The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties
The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius: The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization 3.92 avg rating — 1,840 ratings
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Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs
Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs 4.03 avg rating — 2,941 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine 4.12 avg rating — 9,240 ratings
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Cuba Libre. Una historia real de amor sobre escapar dentro y fuera de Cuba.
Cuba Libre. Una historia real de amor sobre escapar dentro y fuera de Cuba. 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America
Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses 4.38 avg rating — 18,771 ratings
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The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery
The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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From Molecule To Modern Human: The 4.4-Billion-Year Evolution of Homo sapiens
From Molecule To Modern Human: The 4.4-Billion-Year Evolution of Homo sapiens it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human 3.64 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Stoves & Suitcases: Searching for Home in the World's Kitchens
Stoves & Suitcases: Searching for Home in the World's Kitchens 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967 4.51 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text
Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text 4.15 avg rating — 154 ratings
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A History of Hand Knitting
A History of Hand Knitting 3.90 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes
Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes 4.39 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint
Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint 3.61 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge 4.13 avg rating — 12,639 ratings
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Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs 3.97 avg rating — 1,610 ratings
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town 3.69 avg rating — 6,840 ratings
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Mushroom: A Global History
Mushroom: A Global History 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking
The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Living and Cooking 4.14 avg rating — 84 ratings
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A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World's Favorite Beverage
A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World's Favorite Beverage 3.92 avg rating — 497 ratings
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