Civilization
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
$25.00 Add to cartAn award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)–that the West is, and always has been, truly global.
“Those archaic- Author: Quinn, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593729803
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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The Pre-Flood World: 3000 Year Timeline to the Great Flood
$18.95 Add to cartThere have been attempts in the ancient past to assemble a complete chronological history of the natural and human world. Much of this well-researched information is rare or has become lost to modern
- Series: Chronicon #1
- Author: Breshears, Jason M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 158509160X
- Language: English
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
$34.00 Add to cartFor readers of Thomas Piketty, David Graeber, and Jared Diamond: A bold, provocative, wide-ranging argument about the human idea of progress that offers a new vision of our future
Progress is power. Na- Author: McDonald, Samuel Miller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250278317
- Language: English
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Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
$35.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The definitive history of the slave trade in the Islamic world–a story that has been overshadowed by its notorious, but shorter-lived, Atlanti- Author: Marozzi, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369732
- Language: English
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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation
$22.99 Add to cartNewly updated for the paperback edition, this instant bestseller explains how and why some societies chose to destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541673514
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Global History
$49.00 Add to cartA landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisive- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0735220832
- Language: English
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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
$35.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.
What is going on with our atmosphere? The headli
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063374455
- Language: English
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Chinese Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartBeautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history of the Chinese and Asian peoples, highlighting the roots of modern fiction in history, myth and fable.
The events of China’s history- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Forbes Crawford, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1835622720
- Language: English
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
$19.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle
In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and p- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #11
- Author: Elliott, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0691220700
- Language: English
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
$25.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose argu- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593734238
- Language: English
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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
$32.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how environmental change throughout the cosmos shaped five hundred years of human civilization.
Our solar system is a dynamic arena where asteroids careen off course and solar wind- Author: deGroot, Dagomar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674986504
- Language: English
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African Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartBeautiful edition taking the reader through the origins and history of African nations and peoples, highlighting the roots of modern fiction in history, myth and fable.
Africa is a crucible of many ci- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Walker, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1835622704
- Language: English
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110333
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
$15.00 Read moreA lively journey through the story of language, from an infant’s first word to the languages of the internet
Language never leaves you alone. It’s there in your head, helping you think. It’s there to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283237
- Language: English
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America-The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition): Explore the Discovery of the New World, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, the Great
$29.99 Add to cartA single-volume edition of William J. Bennett’s bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated.
“The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett’s won
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1400212901
- Language: English
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The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
$31.99 Add to cartWhen Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was
- Author: Rees, Owen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036524
- Language: English
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The Future of Truth
$26.00 Add to cartFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested question… [more below]
- Author: Herzog, Werner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0593833678
- Language: English
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
$24.00 Add to cartThe revolutionary account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, through the eyes of the vanished, challenging colonial narratives and centering Aztec voices
A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorg- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807019054
- Language: English
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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
$35.00 Add to cartA vast and unprecedented survey of societal collapse–stretching from the Stone Age to the age of silicon–that digs through the ruins of fallen societies to understand the root causes of their downfa… [more below]
- Author: Kemp, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593321359
- Language: English
