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Spiritomb

Microhistory

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Details
Rating
Readers Count
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#2
Libraries in the Ancient World
Libraries in the Ancient World
  • Lionel Casson
00 reads
#3
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
  • Jim Dawson
00 reads
#4
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
  • Jim Dawson
00 reads
#5
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
  • Rebecca R. Falkoff
00 reads
#6
Sweat
Sweat
  • Bill Hayes
51 read
#7
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
  • Grady Hendrix
4.3354 reads
#8
The Royal Art of Poison
The Royal Art of Poison
  • Eleanor Herman
413 reads
#9
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
  • Adam Higginbotham
4.44125 reads
#10
A Cultural History of Twin Beds
A Cultural History of Twin Beds
  • Hilary Hinds
00 reads
#11
Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
  • Fred Hogge
01 read
#12
Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War
Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War
  • Tony Horwitz
4.335 reads
#13
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
  • Steven L. Kent
4.1412 reads
#14
Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.61101 reads
#15
Cover 6

Under the Knife

Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
  • Arnold van de Laar
43 reads
#16
Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
  • Pranay Lal
00 reads
#17
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
  • Phil Lapsley
3.869 reads
#18
Cover 1

Providence Lost

Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic
  • Paul Lay
31 read
#19
Rest in Pieces
Rest in Pieces
  • Bess Lovejoy
01 read
#20
Red Sauce
Red Sauce
  • Ian MacAllen
00 reads
#21
The Library Book
The Library Book
  • Susan Orlean
3.94178 reads
#22
Scent
Scent
  • Elise Vernon Pearlstine
31 read
#23
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
  • Mary Roach
3.8791 reads
#24
Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes
Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes
  • Nayan Shah
00 reads
#25
Worn
Worn
  • Sofi Thanhauser
4.54 reads
#26
Why We Swim
Why We Swim
  • Bonnie Tsui
3.8331 reads
#27
April 1865
April 1865
  • Jay Winik
43 reads
#28
Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
  • Tristan Donovan
00 reads
#29
On paper
On paper
  • Nicholas A. Basbanes
01 read
#30
Sugar
Sugar
  • Elizabeth Abbott
00 reads
#31
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
  • Will Hunt
3.86 reads
#32
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
  • Witold Rybczynski
01 read
#33
The Great American Shopping Experience: The History of American Retail from Main Street to the Mall
The Great American Shopping Experience: The History of American Retail from Main Street to the Mall
  • Stephen H. Provost
00 reads
#34
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
  • Tom Standage
00 reads
#35
Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams
  • Chelsea Wald
4.56 reads
#36
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
  • Katherine Ashenburg
3.46 reads
#37
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
  • Larry Zuckerman
31 read
#38
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
  • Laura C. Martin
32 reads
#39
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
  • Rose George
3.758 reads
#40
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
  • Tom Vanderbilt
3.7832 reads
#41
Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
  • Anne Mendelson
52 reads
#42
Rats
Rats
  • Robert Sullivan
4.2211 reads
#43
A History of the Breast
A History of the Breast
  • Marilyn Yalom
00 reads
#44
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
  • David M. Friedman
41 read
#45
The Great Cat Massacre
The Great Cat Massacre
  • Robert Darnton
3.674 reads
#46
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
  • Benson Bobrick
00 reads
#47
Hunger
Hunger
  • Sharman Apt Russell
3.254 reads
#48
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
  • Cynthia Barnett
3.257 reads
#49
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
  • Thor Hanson
3.45 reads
#50
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects
  • Neil MacGregor
4.2720 reads
#51
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
  • Aaron Bobrow-Strain
3.52 reads
#52
Cover 6

The Hive

The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
  • Bee Wilson
00 reads
#53
Waste and Want
Waste and Want
  • Susan Strasser
00 reads
#54
Wanderlust
Wanderlust
  • Rebecca Solnit
3.588 reads
#55
Cover 4

Blood

Blood
  • Douglas Starr
42 reads
#56
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
  • Mark Caldwell
00 reads
#57
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
  • Peter Wohlleben
4.01129 reads
#58
Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
  • Holly Tucker
43 reads
#59
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
  • Mario Livio
3.6516 reads
#60
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat
  • Carl Van Vechten
00 reads
#61
A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World
  • Simon Winchester
3.313 reads
#62
Sweetness and Power
Sweetness and Power
  • Sidney W. Mintz
31 read
#63
Uranium
Uranium
  • Tom Zoellner
3.54 reads
#64
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
  • Sven Beckert
3.58 reads
#65
Necropolis
Necropolis
  • Catharine Arnold
31 read
#66
Garbage Land
Garbage Land
  • Elizabeth Royte
42 reads
#67
Wonderful life
Wonderful life
  • Stephen Jay Gould
4.8312 reads
#68
Flow
Flow
  • Elissa Stein
  • Susan Kim
35 reads
#69
The Invention of Air
The Invention of Air
  • Steven Johnson
4.254 reads
#70
Birth
Birth
  • Tina Cassidy
41 read
#71
Cover 6

The Story of Corn

The Story of Corn
  • Betty Fussell
00 reads
#72
Flu
Flu
  • Gina Kolata
3.677 reads
#73
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
  • Henry Petroski
31 read
#74
No Idle Hands
No Idle Hands
  • Anne Macdonald
00 reads
#75
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
  • Marc Levinson
3.6829 reads
#76
The Year 1000
The Year 1000
  • Robert Lacey
  • Danny Danziger
3.7810 reads
#77
Fermat's last theorem
Fermat's last theorem
  • Simon Singh
  • John Lynch, scénariste
4.0781 reads
#78
Mauve
Mauve
  • Simon Garfield
21 read
#79
The Secret Life of Lobsters
The Secret Life of Lobsters
  • Trevor Corson
4.55 reads
#80
The True History of Chocolate
The True History of Chocolate
  • Sophie D. Coe
  • Michael D. Coe
41 read
#81
Consider the fork
Consider the fork
  • Bee Wilson
3.8526 reads
#82
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
  • Henry Hobhouse
00 reads
#83
Coal: A Human History
Coal: A Human History
  • Barbara Freese
2.835 reads
#84
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
  • Bill Bryson
3.98142 reads
#85
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
  • Simon Winchester
3.7318 reads
#86
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
  • Simon Winchester
3.5524 reads
#87
Banana
Banana
  • Dan Koeppel
3.819 reads
#88
Tulipomania
Tulipomania
  • Mike Dash
3.65 reads
#89
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  • Tony Horwitz
4.1626 reads
#90
Uncommon Grounds
Uncommon Grounds
  • Mark Pendergrast
2.755 reads
#91
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Extreme North: A Cultural History
  • Bernd Brunner
  • Jefferson Chase (Translator)
51 read
#92
Inventing the Christmas Tree
Inventing the Christmas Tree
  • Bernd Brunner
00 reads
#93
The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living
The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living
  • Bernd Brunner
00 reads
#94
Bears: A Brief History
Bears: A Brief History
  • Bernd Brunner
  • Lori Lantz (Translator)
00 reads
#95
Moon: A Brief History
Moon: A Brief History
  • Bernd Brunner
00 reads
#96
Color
Color
  • Victoria Finlay
3.8316 reads
#97
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.7937 reads
#98
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
  • Allan Mazur
00 reads
#99
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
  • Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
00 reads
#100
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
  • Simon Garfield
00 reads
#101
Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
  • Eli Maor
  • Eugen Jost
00 reads