Civilization
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Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines: More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$21.95 Add to cartIn a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the clas
- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888932
- Language: English
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A Little History of Science
$15.00 Read moreA spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living orga- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0300197136
- Language: English
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The New Wilderness
$17.00 Add to cartA Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year – Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
“More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a bruta
- Author: Cook, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0062333143
- Language: English
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Absolutely Everything! Revised and Expanded: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots, and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention
$25.00 Add to cartThe most remarkable true stories of all time and around the world brought vividly to life – from the Big Bang right up to the present day.
Embark on a journey across millennia and around the world, fr- Author: Lloyd, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1804660760
- Language: English
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
$24.00 Add to cartThe Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge–a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness
- Author: Asbridge, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0060787295
- Language: English
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Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
$29.99 Add to cartHow 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West
With dizzying social transformations in everything from gender to social justice, it may seem like there’s never be
- Author: Wilson, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1433580535
- Language: English
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
$19.00 Add to cartA Wolfson History Prize Finalist
“Timely and authoritative…I enjoyed it immensely.”
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
–Philip Pullman “If you care about books, and if yo- Author: Ovenden, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271106
- 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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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive history of the idea of equality–and why we’re so ambivalent about it
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nation- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0465093930
- Language: English
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
$20.00 Add to cartAn exciting account of the origins of the modern world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 24, 2002
- ISBN10: 0609809997
- 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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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Magisterial . . . A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”–Los Angeles Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0553384902
- Language: English
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Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times
$29.99 Add to cartLive, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys!
Explore what your medieval life would have been through a choose-your-own-adventure full of quizzes, how-to guides, diagrams and- Author: Swarthout, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1529908302
- 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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History!: The Past as You’ve Never Seen It Before
$24.99 Read moreJourney back in time and marvel at the history of our world like never before with this children’s encyclopedia perfect for curious kids.
Forming part of a fantastic series of kid’s educational books,… [more below]- Series: Knowledge Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1465481753
- Language: English
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All That’s Left in the World
$19.99 Add to cartWhat If It’s Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance from debut author Erik J. Brown. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Alex London, and Heartstopper by A
- Author: Brown, Erik J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063054973
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$25.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858801
- Language: English
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The Lessons of History
$17.99 Add to cartA concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.
With their acc- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 143914995X
- Language: English
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Civilization and Its Discontents
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. … [more below]
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0393304515
- Language: English
