Books

Young man reading by candlelight. (© Painted by Matthias Stom in the 17^th century / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)

Natural History

• A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson, Broadway Books, 2004
• An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics — Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (first published 1995)
• Origin Story: A Big History of Everything — David Christian, Little, Brown and Company, 2018
• A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth — Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink, Bloomsbury Press, 2016

Human History

• Gods, Graves & Scholars — C. W. Ceram, Vintage, 1986 (first published in 1949)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond, W.W. Norton & Company, 2017 (first published 1997)
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari, Harvill Secker, 2014
• A History of the World in 100 Objects — Neil MacGregor, Penguin Books, 2013
• China: Land of Discovery and Invention — Robert K. G. Temple, Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1986
• Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World — Arnold J. Toynbee, Oxford University Press, 1976
• The Story of India — Michael Wood, BBC Books, 2008

German Books

• Kleine Weltgeschichte — Alexander Demandt, FISCHER Taschenbuch, 2007
• Geschichte im Überblick: Daten, Fakten und Zusammenhänge der Weltgeschichte — Imanuel Geiss, Anaconda, 2008
• Brockhaus, die Bibliothek: Vom Urknall zum Menschen — ed. by Gernot Gruber, Vol. 1. Brockhaus, 1999
• Vom Urknall zum modernen Menschen — Peter Ulmschneider, Springer, 2014

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