Civilization
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Japanese Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartBeautiful edition, and companion to Japanese Myths & Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Japanese state, society and culture.
A gorgeous Collector’s Edition covering the history of Japan from pr- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Leigh-Howarth, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175757
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Book of Treasures: Vikings
$19.99 Add to cartTake an incredible journey back in time to a land of warriors, longboats and legends. Marvel at fabulous treasures and sagas of heroes, monsters and epic voyages.
Travel back in time more than a thous- Series: Magnificent Book of
- Author: Caldwell, Stella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1681889021
- Language: English
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Giants on Record: America’s Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files
$19.95 Read moreOver a 200-year period thousands of newspaper reports, town and county histories, letters, photos, diaries, and scientific journals have documented the existence of an ancient race of giants in North … [more below]
- Author: Vieira, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: July 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1939149800
- Language: English
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
$30.00 Add to cartIn this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city’s savior
“Illuminating…Wils- Author: Wilson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548117
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of tod
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525512179
- Language: English
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
$18.99 Add to cartFrom hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future.
The history of Homo sapiens- Author: Bittman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0358645522
- Language: English
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On the Isle of Antioch
$18.99 Add to cartIn this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on… [more below]
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1642861340
- Language: English
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Collapse of Complex Societies 1ed
$50.00 Add to cartPolitical disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. … [more below]
- Series: New Studies in Archaeology
- Author: Tainter, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: March 29 1990
- ISBN10: 052138673X
- Language: English
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Concrete: From the Ground Up
$18.99 Add to cartA stylish, eye-opening, utterly engaging, and often wry look at one of the marvels of the material world, from the ground up.
From a lowly mixture of stone, sand, water, and cement have sprung sidewa
- Series: Material Marvels
- Author: Theule, Larissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 1536212504
- Language: English
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Weslandia
$8.99 Add to cart“This fantastical picture book, like its hero, is bursting at the seams with creativity. . . . a vigorous shot in the arm to nonconformists everywhere” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Enter the- Author: Fleischman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 1, 2002
- ISBN10: 0763610526
- Language: English
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Civilization and Its Discontents (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$12.95 Add to cartCivilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes suffering on such a vast scale and whether the hum… [more below]
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 1, 2022
- ISBN10: 195724058X
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
$34.99 Add to cart“Carl Trueman explains modernity to the church, with depth, clarity, and force. The significance of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self . . . is hard to overstate.”
—Rod Dreher, from the ForewordM
- Author: Trueman, Carl R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1433556332
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora- Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0465097847
- Language: English
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The Gods Never Left Us: The Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-Seller Chariots of the Gods
$17.99 Read moreThe Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-seller Chariots of the Gods
When Chariots of the Gods was published 50 years ago, it began a worldwide change in humanity’s view of the cosmos. In an era- Author: Von Däniken, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 20 2017
- ISBN10: 163265119X
- Language: English
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
$24.99 Add to cartAsk someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woo… [more below]
- Author: Woods, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1596983280
- Language: English
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The 12th Planet (Book I)
$24.00 Add to cartOver the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabit… [more below]
- Series: Earth Chronicles #01
- Author: Sitchin, Zecharia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0939680882
- Language: English
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437649
- Language: English
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Steppenwolf
$18.99 Add to cartWith its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberation
Harry Halle- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 6, 2002
- ISBN10: 0312278675
- Language: English
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
$35.00 Add to cartThis is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: March 1, 2007
- ISBN10: 039305974X
- Language: English
