[diego_moita]

When I see lists like this I am surprised that they always live out school textbooks.

School textbooks are the kind of books that have the very precise purpose of giving you a foundation and roadmap to explore and understand a whole field of knowledge. And they're an industry that has been improving them on successive iterations to produce highly organized, comprehensive and accessible reading material through years.

[gwbas1c]

School textbooks also have a lot of bias, and may oversimplify issues in ways that are necessary with children, but lead to longing misconceptions.

IE: Was the US Civil War fought over slavery or states' rights? Someone's answer may come from the biases of the textbooks they grew up with.

[diego_moita]

> School textbooks also have

For me the keyword in your comment is "also". What this word means to me is that, whatever faults textbooks might have, there is no alternative solution. They replicate a problem that all books have.

However, within the domain of textbooks, you still might find good solutions for these bias. These bias are mostly within history and social sciences and good and reputable Universities are renowned for publishing books in these domains that are quite balanced, comprehensive, deep and rigorous. Oxford and Cambridge are the 2 best examples that come to my mind. The U.S. has good Universities too, but after their government declared a war on science and knowledge I'd be carefull before trusting these universities.