Civilization
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Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
$19.99 Add to cartWith straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must readin… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 323
- Publish Date: April 1, 2001
- ISBN10: 1893554260
- Language: English
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Conquests and Cultures: An International History
$22.99 Add to cartThis book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around … [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: April 30, 1999
- ISBN10: 0465014003
- Language: English
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
$24.95 Add to cart“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecolog
- Author: Bookchin, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 1, 2005
- ISBN10: 1904859267
- Language: English
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The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartA “smart and surprising” (Booklist) “expansive history” (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem–including human evolution and the rise and fall … [more below]
- Author: Ennos, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982114746
- Language: English
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Po
- Author: Mask, Deirdre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 125013479X
- Language: English
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
$28.95 Add to cart“A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy.”–Washington Post
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on- Author: Goodheart, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1567926827
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displa… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393061310
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$38.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0374157359
- Language: English
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The World: A Family History of Humanity
$45.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families – From the author of The Romanovs
A Best- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525659536
- Language: English
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
$35.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations,… [more below]
- Author: Conway, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 593534344
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$30.00 Add to cart*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*
A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our ti- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668031086
- Language: English
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
$25.00 Add to cartIn Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the c
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 143117009
- Language: English
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald甁 (d
- Series: Princeton Classics #13
- Author: Khaldûn, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166285
- Language: English
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
$24.00 Add to cartAn Economist Best History Book 2017
“History as it should be written.”–Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civil- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 030024021X
- Language: English
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$18.95 Add to cartCundill Prize Finalist
The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Five Books Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278658
- Language: English
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The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$21.00 Read moreOn August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fasc
- Author: Hansen, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0060084774
- Language: English
