Civilization
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Story of the World, Vol. 2: History for the Classical Child: The Middle Ages
$19.95 Read moreNow more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives–and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivatin… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World #0
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 16 2007
- ISBN10: 1933339098
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.
$54.99 Add to cartThe Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. covers great swathes of time beginning with the earliest written records of the Hebrews, Sumerians, Baby
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003874
- Language: English
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The Cambridge History of Warfare
$37.00 Add to cartThe new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe … [more below]
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1316632768
- 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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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143104810
- Language: English
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La ArmonÃa de Las Células: Una Exploración de la Medicina Y del Nuevo Ser Humano / The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
$30.95 Read more«En un relato a la vez l?rico y amplio, Mukherjee nos lleva a trav?s de una historia de la comprensi?n humana: desde el descubrimiento en el siglo XVII de que estamos formados por c?lulas hasta … [more below]
- Author: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8419399469
- Language: Spanish
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Weird But True Know-It-All: Middle Ages
$12.99 Add to cartThe Middle Ages come to life in this latest installment in the hit Weird But True Know-It-All series, featuring stories of legendary rulers, epic castles, menacing weaponry, and more!
Vikings are know- Series: Weird But True
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1426373295
- Language: English
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
$40.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack O
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 27, 2020
- ISBN10: 0063055082
- 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 Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
$19.95 Add to cart“Skeie’s account of ruthless conflict, political intrigue, and diplomatic machinations reads like a real-life Game of Thrones–without the dragons. Medieval history buffs will be riveted.” –Publisher… [more below]
- Author: Skeie, Tore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1782278354
- Language: English
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The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
$34.00 Add to cart“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”–Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author … [more below]
- Author: Mac Sweeney, Nao?se
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0593472179
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 1: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times
$19.95 Add to cartWhat terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi’s tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emper… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World: History for the Classical Child (Paperback) #0
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: April 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1933339004
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society
$30.00 Add to cartWhat makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a
- Author: Janega, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393867811
- Language: English
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future
$46.58 Add to cartAn ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over th- Author: Porder, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0691177295
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West
$27.00 Read moreA new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
“[A] provocative short book . . . with a novel twist.”–The Economist Over the last three centuries, the- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 030027372X
- 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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The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist, 2024 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working f
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1487011938
- Language: English
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
$18.95 Add to cartIn the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and or… [more below]
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343405
- Language: English
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American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and illuminating new history–separate fact from fiction, myth from legend–exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.
Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combin- Author: Whittock, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365354
- Language: English
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
$32.99 Add to cartTHE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZE
A “Next Big Idea Book Club” Must Read?A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been … [more below]
- Author: Ramirez, Janina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1335498524
- Language: English
