Civilization
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Read moreA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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G?bekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World’s First Megaliths
$8.95 Add to cartWhat is the earliest temple complex on Earth? Who built it? Is it really 7,000 years older than Stonehenge and the pyramids? How did such a sophisticated civilization evade detection for so long?
In- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Newman, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1952178444
- Language: English
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The Case for Colonialism
$39.99 Add to cart“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article “The Case for Colonialism” of 2017. The article sparked a global furo
- Author: Gilley, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003890
- Language: English
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Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
$28.00 Add to cartA unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod
Tim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about r- Author: Queeney, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250346452
- Language: English
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
$31.99 Add to cartThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and
- Author: Al-Rashid, Moudhy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036427
- Language: English
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Sapiens. Una Historia Gr?fica 3: Los Amos de la Historia / Sapiens. a Graphic History 3: The Masters of History
$25.95 Add to cartEn este nuevo volumen de la adaptaci?n gr?fica de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen y Daniel Casaneve contin?an, con ingenio, empat?a y originalidad, present?ndonos la complicada historia… [more below]
- Series: Una Historia Gr?fica
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 8419951188
- Language: Spanish
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Alexandria: The City That Changed the World
$21.95 Add to cartAn original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.
Islam Issa’s father had always told him about their city’s magnificence, an- Author: Issa, Islam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368728
- Language: English
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The Year God Died: Jesus and the Roman Empire in 33 AD
$32.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of how the Roman Empire shaped the life and death of Jesus, overturning centuries of historical beliefs around the world–from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fir… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 593355229
- Language: English
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
$32.50 Add to cartFrom “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind–and through all five senses–from tropical Polynesian islands to forbi… [more below]
- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0316496553
- Language: English
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
$29.99 Add to cartThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.
Daughter. Duhit?r-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these Englis- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1639732586
- Language: English
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Native American History: A Captivating Guide to the Long History of Native Americans Including Stories of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Native Ame
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to explore the shocking history of the Native Americans then keep reading…
“History is written by the victors,” said the victor Winston Churchill. But does that compromise the truth of wh
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483972
- Language: English
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE – “An essential American history” (The Wall Street Journal) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient citi… [more below]
- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0525511059
- Language: English
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Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE
$19.95 Add to cartA panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history
This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa,- Author: Ehret, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691244863
- Language: English
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The Annals & The Histories
$21.00 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966996
- Language: English
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The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
$32.50 Add to cartThe epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, offering a “timely” (Odd Arne Westad, coauthor of The Great Transformation) argument that the decline of the West may be a good thing fo… [more below]
- Author: Acharya, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604148
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$20.00 Add to cart“I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book…there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up.” –Annie Proulx
*A New York Times Book Review Editors- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031094
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$22.99 Add to cartFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, an “exceptionally rich narrative” (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606051
- Language: English
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be i… [more below]
- Author: Zalloua, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730909
- Language: English
