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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$24.95 Read morePeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very di
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 189101157X
- Language: English
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
$35.00 Add to cartTake a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.
Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an es- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462406
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$46.67 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE – A Pulitzer Prize finalist that’s as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came
- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0375713964
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$53.00 Read moreJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Breve Historia del Mundo. Edición Ilustrada
$26.95 Read moreNueva edición ilustrada de esta obra clásica que lleva décadas divulgando la historia del mundo a lectores de todas las edades.
Esta Breve historia del mundo no es un manual al uso: es la historia d
- Author: Gombrich, Ernst H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 6075692282
- Language: Spanish
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
$15.95 Read moreThe human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490990
- Language: English
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers
$18.00 Read moreA new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed “a Dot-Com cult classic,” by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, th
- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 162040592X
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Assassinations: More Than 400 Infamous Attacks That Changed the Course of History
$17.95 Read moreEncyclopedia of Assassinations is the most comprehensive handbook on over 400 assassinations, attempts, and plots against political figures. The narrative entries detail history’s most turbulent momen… [more below]
- Author: Sifakis, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1620875918
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0300108834
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the national bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization–a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
“Intoxicating…. Cahill’s c- Series: Hinges of History #05
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0385495560
- Language: English
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters
$19.00 Read moreObscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton
The first installment in Giles Milton’s outrageously entertaining series, History’s Unknown- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078776
- Language: English
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Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Read more“The brief sections are consistently interesting, and plenty of supplemental illustrations and photos make this a handsome volume… best-suited to curious kids and casual mineralogists.” –Publisher
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1770855874
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$17.95 Read moreThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, accla
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356264
- Language: English
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The Decline of the West
$17.95 Add to cartSince its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a… [more below]
- Author: Spengler, Oswald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400097002
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
$40.00 Read moreA dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.
From the rise of Sa- Author: Lieven, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0735222193
- Language: English
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Jewels: A Secret History
$20.00 Read moreThroughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her ow… [more below]
- Author: Finlay, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 345466950
- Language: English
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
$19.99 Read moreThese 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . .
Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these i… [more below]- Author: McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1683690257
- Language: English
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
$19.00 Read more“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’–the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”–Kyle Harper, The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229436
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$35.00 Add to cartFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cu… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610397967
- Language: English
