My Non-Fiction Reviews Bookshelf


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History, Economics and PoliticsSpain and Spanish History
General



Science and Nature
William Alexander
The $64 Tomato
Adam Becker
What Is Real?
Rutger Bregman
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Wendell Berry
Our Only World
Adam Frank
Light of the Stars
Brian Greene
Until the End of Time
John Gribbin
Stardust
James Hansen
Storms of my Grandchildren
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The Grand Design
Pico Iyer
The Art of Stillness
Barbara Kingsolver
Small Wonder
Torkel Klingberg
The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and The Limits of Working Memory
Barry Lopez
Horizon
J. Drew Lanham
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Katie Mack
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Stefan Milosvljevich
Tales of Ancient Worlds
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
The Path
Cristina del Río Fuentes
Palimpsestos (Palimpsests: The Traces of Time in Architecture)
Carlos Rovelli
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlos Rovelli
Reality is Not What it Seems:
The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlos Rovelli The Order of Time
Carlos Rovelli Helgoland:
Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
José Luis Sampedro
The Perennial Life
(La vida perenne)
José Luis Sampedro
Dictionary Sampedro (Diccionario Sampedro)
Suzanne Simard
Finding the Mother Tree
Max Tegmark
Our Mathematical Universe
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Phenomenon of Man
Miguel de Unamuno
Tragic Sense of Life
Edward O. Wilson
The Meaning of Human Existence
Robert Wright
Why Buddhism Is True


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History, Economics and Politics
Kurt Andersen
Fantasyland:
How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Anne Applebaum
Twilight of Democracy:
The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Isaías Barreñada
Breve historia del Sahara Occidental (A Brief History of Western Sahara)
Richard Bassett
Hitler's Spy Chief
Alfred W. Crosby
The Measure of Reality:
Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600
William Davies
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
Nathaniel Davis
The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende
Will and Ariel Durant
The Lessons of History
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
Bart Ehrman
How Jesus Became God
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
1492: The Year the World Began
Eric Foner
Who Owns History?
Eduardo Galeano
Genesis
Eduardo Galeano
Faces & Masks
Eduardo Galeano
Children of the Days:
A Calendar of Human History
Eduardo Galeano
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Anand Giridharadas
Winners Take All:
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Brooke Gladstone
The Influencing Machine
Elisabeth Duquesne
van Gogh

Personal Recollections of Vincent van Gogh
David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Martin Hägglund
This Life
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom:
Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition
Eric Hoffer
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Ole R. Holsti
Making American Foreign Policy
Cathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Charlie LeDuff
Detroit: An American Autopsy
Jill Lepore
This America: The Case for the Nation
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Coddling of the American Mind
Dan Lyons
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble 
Charles C. Mann
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto
Heather McGhee
The Sum of Us
China Miéville
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
Pankaj Mishra
Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Elie Mystal
Allow Me to Retort
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
José Ortega y Gasset
The Revolt of the Masses
Thomas Piketty
Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty
A Brief History of Equality
Ben Rhodes
The World As It Is
Jared Yates Sexton
The Man They Wanted Me to Be
Jeff Sharlet
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers
Jonathan Steinberg
Bismark: A Life
Fritz Stern
Das feine Schweigen
(The Polite Silence)
Fritz Stern
Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History
Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
Martin Wolf
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Stefan Zweig
Die Welt von Gestern
(The World of Yesterday)


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Spain and Spanish History
International Center of Photography
The Mexican Suitcase
Larry Collins and
Dominique Lapierre

Or I'll Dress You in Mourning:
The Story of El Cordobés and the New Spain He Stands For
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2014/05/book-review-imagining-spain-by-henry.html
Henry Kamen
Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
Norman Lewis
The Tomb in Seville:
Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2016/07/book-review-diccionario-onom-de-la.html
Mateo Madridejos
Diccionario onomástico de la guerra civil
(Onomastic Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War)
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2018/01/book-review-what-is-happening-in.html
Eduardo Mendoza
Qué está pasando en Cataluña
(What is Happening in Catalonia)
Hugh Thomas
The Spanish Civil War


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General
Jacques Bonnet
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
Barbara Aria
The Nature of the Chinese Character
Jan Bergh Eriksen
Trolls and their relatives
http://tertulia-moderna.blogspot.com/2016/06/book-review-keep-curious-and-carry.html
Justin Martin and Liza Charlesworth
Keep Curious and Carry a Banana