Civilization
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
$32.50 Add to cartNo animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eu
- Author: Chaffetz, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324051469
- Language: English
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History of the Persian Empire
$33.00 Add to cartOut of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Olmstead, A. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 670
- Publish Date: February 15 1959
- ISBN10: 0226627772
- Language: English
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
$24.95 Read moreConceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on … [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494406
- Language: English
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
$28.95 Read moreMoving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections betw
- Author: Sattin, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035455
- Language: English
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Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific
$16.95 Add to cartWas there once a continent in the Pacific called Lemuria or Pacifica by ecologists, and Mu or Pan by the mystics? There is now ample mythological, geological and archaeological evidence to ‘prove’ tha… [more below]
- Series: Lost Cities Series
- Author: Childress, David Hatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0932813046
- Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
$29.99 Add to cartBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us abou… [more below]
- Author: Geroulanos, Stefanos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091452
- Language: English
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Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization
$35.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples’ human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Robert A., Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0230338763
- Language: English
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Making of the World: Sapiens’ Journey From Wilderness to Civilization
$33.99 Add to cartThis book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).
Humanity was once divided into thousands of smal… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Mahbub H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039185819
- Language: English
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Introduction to African Civilizations
$17.95 Add to cartTimely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0806521899
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$28.95 Read moreFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867935
- Language: English
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
$17.99 Add to cartNow a New York Times Bestseller.
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the
- Author: Carlin, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0062868055
- Language: English
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American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190622431
- Language: English
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Making of the World: Sapiens’ Journey From Wilderness to Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartThis book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).
Humanity was once divided into thousands of smal… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Mahbub H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039185800
- Language: English
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$37.43 Add to cart2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjec
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0674244214
- Language: English
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.00 Add to cartIn a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind’s greatest innovations.
“A towerin- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525436332
- Language: English
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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
$20.99 Add to cartCivilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophis
- Author: Kriwaczek, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1250054168
- Language: English
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This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History’s Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.
Have you ever wondered wh
- Author: Cider Mill Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1646433629
- Language: English
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The Year 1000: When Globalization Began
$19.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (P- Author: Hansen, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1501194119
- Language: English
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
“A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an ey- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122061
- Language: English
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Sapiens. de Animales a Dioses / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
$24.95 Add to cartEl libro de no ficci?n del A?O
Un best seller internacional con m?s de un mill?n de ejemplares vendidos.
L?cido e iluminador: la historia de la humanidad en un solo volumen.
Este es el fascinante relato … [more below]- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 8499926223
- Language: Spanish
