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2026
«The Spirit of Hope: Philosophy, the Last Idealists, and the Birth of the New Enlightenment, 1948–1984»
Wolfram Eilenberger
«Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism»
Shadi Bartsch
«Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs»
David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu
«Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets»
Burkhard Bilger
«The Black Viking»
Bergsveinn Birgisson
«The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses»
Kevin Birmingham
«1837: Russia’s Quiet Revolution»
Paul W. Werth
«Spice: The Sixteenth-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World»
Roger Crowley
«Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved»
Kenneth Catania
«Freedom at Midnight»
Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
«Hungarian Bestiary: The Most Mysterious Fantastic Creatures of Europe»
Zoltán Magyar
«Math with Bad Drawings»
Ben Orlin
«Bestiaries of the Middle Ages»
Michel Pastoureau
«Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality»
Venki Ramakrishnan
«Before Computers: Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data»
Stephen Robertson
«Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves»
Jaap de Roode
«Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music»
Alex Ross
«The Three Erhard Brothers: The Untold Story of Germany's Postwar Economic Miracle»
Raymond G. Stokes
«Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution»
Menno Schilthuizen
«Rossitten: Three Decades on the Curonian Spit»
Johannes Thienemann
«The Shortest History of Music»
Andrew Ford
«Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy»
David J. Chalmers
«The Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence: AI and Us»
Eugene Charniak
«The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter»
Govert Schilling
«If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All»
Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares
