Top 100
Number	Author	Title	Year of publication	Subject	Theme
1	Machiavelli, Nicolo	The Discourses	1515	Political philosophy	Examples from Roman antiquity to explain human behavior
2	Humboldt, Alexander von	Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the new continent	1821	Scientific exploration	How Humboldt learned holistic science by observation
3	Budyko, Mikhail	The evolution of the biosphere	1986	Global biology	How the biosphere evolved through time
4	Hemming, John	Red Gold	1975	History	The plight of the Brazilian Indians c. 1500-1600
5	U.S.S.R. Committee for the International Hydrologic Decade	World Water Balance and Water Resources of the Earth	1978	Hydrology	Global conceptual hydrology
6	Bergreen, Laurence	Over the edge of the world: Magellan's terryfying circumnavigation of the world	2004	History	Magellan's trip around the world
7	Lovelock, James	Gaia: A new look of life on Earth	1979	Biology	How the Earth regulates itself to make life possible
8	Torvalds, Linus	Just for Fun: The story of an accidental revolutionary	2001	History of computer science	The story of Linux
9	Ingenieros, Jose	El Hombre Mediocre	1911	Philosophy	Essay on human nature
10	Gore, Albert	Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit	1991	Environmental Science	The world's most pressing environmental problems
11	Prescott, William	History of the Conquest of Peru	1847	History	History of the Spanish conquest
12	Thomas, Hugh	Rivers of Gold	2003	History	History of the early Spanish conquest of Latin America
13	De Grazia, Sebastian	Machiaveli in hell	1989	History	The life of Machiaveli
14	Cieza de León, Pedro de	Crónica del Perú	1560	Latin American History	Chronicles of a soldier-conquistador
15	Carson, Rachel	Silent Spring	1962	Environmental Science	The case against excessive use of pesticides
16	L'vovich, M. I.	World water resources and their future	1979	Hydrology	Global mathematical hydrology
17	Bergreen, Laurence	Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu	2007	History	Marco Polo's travels
18	Hemming, John	The story of the Amazon	2008	Anthropology	Anthropology of Amazon Indians
19	Budiansky, Stephen	The nature of horses	1997	Evolutionary Zoology	Where did horses come from?
20	Darwin, Charles	The voyage of the Beagle	1839	Travel and exploration	Darwin's trip to South American aboard the HMS Beagle
21	Martín Moreno, Francisco	México sediento	2003	Historical novel	A novel about water scarcity in Mexico
22	Diamond, Jared	Guns, germs and steel: The fate of human societies	1997	Biological History	The biological determination of history
23	Darwin, Charles	The origin of the species	1859	Evolutionary biology	Original work on the theory of evolution
24	McPhee, John	The Control of Nature	1989	Environmental Science	The San Gabriel Mountains; The Mississippi River
25	Herodotus	The history	500 B.C.	Greek history	The wars between Greeks and Persians
26	Lovelock, James	The revenge of Gaia	2006	Planetary physiology	Earth's climate crisis and the fate of humanity
27	Gore, Albert	An inconvenient truth	2006	Environmental Science	The planetary emergence of global warming and what we can do about it
28	De las Casas, Bartolomé	Brevísima relación de la destrucción de la Indias	1988	Political treatise	The plight of the Mexican Indians following the Spanish Conquest
29	Sartori, Giovanni	Homo videns	1997	Human development	Television's influence on man
30	Reisner, Mark	Cadillac Desert	1991	Environmental Science	The plight of Southern California
31	De Chaves, María Concepción	Madame Lynch y Solano López	1976	History	The life story of Madame Lynch, mistress of Solano López
32	Douglas, Marjory Stoneman	The Everglades: River of grass	1947	Natural Philosophy	The plight of the Everglades swamp
33	Thoreau, Henry David	Walden	1854	Natural philosophy	Life in the woods
34	Da Cunha, Euclides	Os sertões: Campanha de Canudos	1897	History	The war of Canudos
35	Chandeler, Billy Jaynes	The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil	1978	Latin American History	History of Lampião, the Brazilian Robin Hood
36	Martín Moreno, Francisco	México Negro	1985	Political novel	Mexico's oil fortunes
37	Arana, Marie	American Chica: Two worlds, one childhood	2001	Latin American Story	True story of growing up in two cultures: Peru and USA.
38	Douglas, Marjory Stoneman	Voice of the River	1987	Natural Philosophy	Biography of Everglades naturalist
39	Americo Vespucci	Viajes de Americo Vespucio	2003	Travel of discovery	Narrative of travels
40	Fest, Joachim	Inside Hitler's bunker	2008	History of WWII	History of the last days of Hitler
41	Junge, Traudl	Until the final hour	2009	History of WWII	Memoirs of Hitler's youngest secretary
42	Schroeder, Christa	I was Hitler'secretary	2009	History of WWII	Memoirs of Hitler's oldest secretary
43	Kempka, Erich	I was Hitler'chauffeur	2009	History of WWII	Memoirs of Hitler's chauffeur
44	Linge, Heinz	With Hitler to the end	2009	History of WWII	Memoirs of Hitler's valet
45	Reitsch, Hanna	The sky my kingdom	2009	History of WWII	Memoirs of famous WWII test pilot
46	Spalding, Karen	Huarochiri	1984	History of he Incas	An Andean society under Inca and Spanish rule
47	Cobo, Bernabe	History of the Inca Empire	1979	History of the Incas	Account of the Indians' costums and their origin

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