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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
$28.00 Add to cartJohn Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0525556575
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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Falsificar La Historia / Falsifying History
$21.95 Add to cartNos gustan las mentiras. Tenemos la facultad de mentir, la capacidad de construir mentiras y la maravillosa inclinaci?n de creer en ellas.
Ese es el inicio y la premisa de Falsificar la historia. Un r… [more below]- Author: Zunzunegui, Juan Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073817029
- Language: Spanish
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A Little History of the World
$15.00 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages
The world has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H.- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283253
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol II: From the Caesars to the Peace of Westphalia and Louis XIV, A.D. 14-1661
$54.99 Add to cartIn this sweeping second volume of the series, The Political and Strategic History of the World, Volume II: From the Caesars to the Peace of Westphalia and Louis XIV, A.D. 14-166, covers the height and
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1943003963
- Language: English
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What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea
$29.95 Add to cart“A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The Guardian
A leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, w- Author: Dabhoiwala, Fara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674987314
- Language: English
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324106980
- Language: English
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The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086351
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$22.99 Add to cartFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, an “exceptionally rich narrative” (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606051
- Language: English
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs–And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
$35.00 Add to cartThe centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning–and the pitfalls of ego–as it does about microbes.
Scientists and enthusiastic amateu- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242734
- Language: English
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Silk Roads
$65.00 Add to cartExplores how the movement of people, objects, and ideas from 500 to 1000 CE shaped cultures and histories
In the ninth century CE, an Arabian ship sank off the coast of Indonesia. The objects found in
- Author: Brunning, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753536
- Language: English
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Humans: A Monstrous History
$29.95 Add to cartA history of how humans have created monsters out of one another–from our deepest fears–and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
Monsters are central to how we think abo- Author: Davies, Surekha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0520388097
- Language: English
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
$17.99 Add to cartThroughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender t… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1568586124
- Language: English
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The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History That Created Your World – Illustrated Edition
$26.99 Add to cartSet your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in
- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1547600217
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartA special edition of the international bestseller that is “sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with… [more below]
- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0300197187
- Language: English
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The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic: An Illustrated History
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the days of the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism, and Islam. Secret words, spells, an
- Author: Dell, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0500518882
- Language: English
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Red: A History of the Redhead
$30.00 Read moreRed is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multi… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Jacky Colliss
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 157912996X
- Language: English
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Paper: Paging Through History
$19.99 Add to cartPaper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literac
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353702
- Language: English
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
$17.95 Read moreMost of us give little thought to the back of the book–it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikel
- Author: Duncan, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050519
- Language: English
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Historia A?o a A?o (History Year by Year): Los Acontecimientos Que Cambiaron El Mundo
$50.00 Add to cartUn recorrido a?o a a?o por los acontecimientos m?s memorables de la historia mundial.
Cu?ndo cruz? An?bal los Alpes? Qu? caus? la guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins? Qui?n fue Rosa Parks? C?mo se desar- Author: Dk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 059384808X
- Language: Spanish
