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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
$29.99 Add to cartEuropeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid an
- Author: Bale, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064579
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the World
$31.99 Add to cartThis book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world hi… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 405
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1107694531
- Language: English
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Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
$30.00 Read moreDo leaders make history or does history make leaders? A deep dive into how we define, seek, and become leaders.
We live in a period of leadership in crisis. At home, and across the globe, we sense t- Author: Temkin, Moshik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541758471
- Language: English
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
$20.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great an
- Author: Hecht, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0060097957
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency
“[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis.” —The Washington Post
“F- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116177
- Language: English
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Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble
$7.99 Add to cartAn exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.
In ‘Waterloo’, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most
- Series: Making History (Paperback)
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2006
- ISBN10: 000719076X
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartAn account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as thr
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1628973307
- Language: English
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
$18.99 Add to cart“You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”–Houston Chronicle
Int
- Author: Greenfield, Amy Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0060522763
- Language: English
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An Edible History of Humanity
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts the enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
More than simply sustenance, food historically has been a kind of te- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 3, 2010
- ISBN10: 0802719910
- Language: English
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
$27.95 Add to cartFollowing one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one young whaler’s death against the backdrop of the vast So… [more below]
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Winterbottom, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400906
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
$31.18 Add to cartNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, govern… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 30 2018
- ISBN10: 520299930
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
$32.00 Add to cartFrom renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.
The Viking wars- Author: Gibbins, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325374
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora- Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0465097847
- Language: English
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
$35.00 Add to cart“A landmark book…[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire.”
An award-winning historian places the corporation–more than the Crown–at the heart of B
–Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs- Author: Stern, Philip J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0674988124
- Language: English
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Culture and Imperialism
$20.00 Add to cartA landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.
In the ninetee- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 679750541
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)
The story of humanity is the story of textiles–as o- Author: Postrel, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617622
- Language: English
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
$22.99 Add to cartA “riveting and illuminating” Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don’t (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landma… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0316409146
- Language: English
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History: The Definitive Visual Guide
$60.00 Read moreThis lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.
Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History ch- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0744073731
- Language: English
