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The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
$34.00 Add to cart“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”–Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author … [more below]
- Author: Mac Sweeney, Nao?se
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0593472179
- Language: English
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After Eden: A Short History of the World
$35.00 Add to cartIn After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity’
- Author: Chasteen, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: 14-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 1324036923
- Language: English
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Plagues and Peoples
$19.00 Read moreThe history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact–political, demographic, ecological, and psychological–of disease on cultur… [more below]
- Author: McNeill, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 1977
- ISBN10: 0385121229
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$22.99 Add to cartThe “engaging” and “ambitious” (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
The history of the library is rich, varied, and
- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603729
- Language: English
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
$14.99 Add to cartNational Geographic author Michael Farquhar uncovers an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the year. From Caligula’s blood-soaked end to hotelier Stev… [more below]
- Author: Farquhar, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1426218079
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the World
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the World is “an entire library’s worth of scholarship [in] a single volume” (San Francisco Gate).
“Authentically mind-boggling.” —Kirk- Author: Booth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1590201620
- Language: English
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The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan–History’s Most Curious Questions, Answered
$32.50 Add to cartThis entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate–with a unique blend of wit, wis… [more below]
- Author: Goalhanger Podcasts
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541704517
- Language: English
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Timeline of World History
$25.99 Add to cartChart the course of history through the ages with this collection of oversize foldout charts and timelines.
Timeline of World History is a unique work of visual reference from the founders of the Usef- Author: Baker, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 20, 2020
- ISBN10: 1645174174
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller * The inspiration for the TV series starring Dan Aykroyd
“There aren’t many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern h- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0802715524
- Language: English
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
$23.00 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are
- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 07, 2017
- ISBN10: 1101912375
- Language: English
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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
$21.95 Add to cartShortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth “Bessie” Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williams
- Author: Minnick, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 164012361X
- Language: English
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$21.99 Add to cartExplores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity’s proprietary relationship with land mean
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062938347
- Language: English
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Strategy: A History
$28.99 Add to cartSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013
In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of st- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190229233
- Language: English
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The Lessons of History
$17.99 Add to cartA concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.
With their acc- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 143914995X
- Language: English
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Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
$22.00 Add to cartAn Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic–the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior and its resurgence today
Three great strands of belief run through huma- Author: Gosden, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800153
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$15.00 Read moreThe international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
“All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: wha- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 030014332X
- Language: English
