Books like Dead funny by Rudolph Herzog

Bill Bryson turns the universe into a conversational guide, tracing science from the Big Bang through evolution, geology, chemistry, astronomy, and particle physics with humor and clarity.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

In 1893 Chicago, Erik Larson weaves the story of visionary architect Daniel Burnham and the cunning serial killer H.H. Holmes, whose crimes unfolded against the backdrop of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

Jon Ronson's investigative inquiry into psychopathy examines the tools, practitioners, and personalities behind the science—and reveals how the lines between study and madness can blur.

A Shakespearean comedy where two sets of identical twins cross paths, leading to confusion, mistaken identity, and humorous misunderstandings at a Roman court.

The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar antisemitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk. - Jacket flap.

Henry Friedlander details how the Nazi "euthanasia" program against handicapped and disabled people became the prototype for the systematic extermination of Jews and Roma during the Holocaust.

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Alon Confino explores the roots of Nazi anti‑Jewish ideology, showing how the German conception of a "world without Jews" directed persecution and the Holocaust, linking state policy to cultural narratives and the 1938 burning of Hebrew books.