Shortest History
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The Shortest History of Soccer: From Ancient Kicking Games to the World’s Most Popular Sport
$16.95 Read moreIn 2026, the FIFA World Cup will return to North America for the first time since 1994, bringing the world’s most watched sporting event to a nation of people more obsessed with soccer than ever befor
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Bunk, Brian D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031218
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to Global Superpower – 250 Years of the Ongoing American Experiment
$16.95 Read moreThe United States was founded based on the monumental idea that everyone deserves the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet throughout our two hundred and fifty years as an indepen
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Watson, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031195
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Scandinavia: 14,000 Years from the Stone Age and the Vikings to the Happiest Nations in the World
$16.95 Add to cartOutsiders have long viewed Scandinavia as special, starting with the ancient Greeks and their myths of Ultima Thule, a place “where the Sun goes to rest.” Today, we admire Scandinavia for its universa
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Kuldkepp, Mart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893030914
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
$16.95 Read moreSince Alan Turing first posed the question “Can machines think?” artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030891
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Ancient Rome: A Millennium of Western Civilization, from Kingdom to Republic to Empire – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cart“For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the Romans succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government–a thing unique in history?”—
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030587
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs: The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth
$16.95 Add to cartDespite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, for example, but these two dinosaurs lived more tha
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Black, Riley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030563
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Migration: When, Why, and How Humans Move – From the Prehistoric Peopling of the Planet to Today and Tomorrow’s Migrants
$16.95 Add to cartFor hundreds of thousands of years, the ability of Homo sapiens to travel across vast distances and adapt to new environments has been key to our survival as a species. And yet this deep migratory imp
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Goldin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030600
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Eugenics: From Science to Atrocity – How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
$16.95 Add to cartFor the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear child
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Peterson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 189101188X
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyonc? – 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song
$16.95 Add to cartNo other art is as popular–or pervasive–as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles–even the brand-new Beyonc?. But things weren’t
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Ford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030525
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of France: From Roman Gaul to Revolution and Cultural Radiance – A Global Story for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartFrance is the most popular tourist destination in the world, thanks to its unsurpassed cultural and historical riches. Gothic architecture, Louis XIV opulence, revolutionary spirit, caf? society, haut
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse?the Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation
$16.95 Add to cartZen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Downer, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011669
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartThe calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It’s hard to imagine a world without Italian influence–and easy to assume that inventions like these cou
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011456
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Read moreThis compact history unspools the tumultuous global story that began with democracy’s radical core idea: We can collaborate, as equals, to determine our own futures. Acclaimed political thinker John K… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Keane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198962
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of War: From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Read moreWar has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Dyer, Gwynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1615199306
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Greece: The Odyssey of a Nation from Myth to Modernity
$16.95 Add to cartPhilosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers–the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Heneage, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199489
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartEngland–begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor–is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven b… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hawes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198148
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our cur
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Baker, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011340
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartCelebrated historian John Hirst draws from his own lectures to deliver this ultra-accessible master class on the making of modern Europe, from Ancient Greece through World War II. With over 600,000 co… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hirst, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1615199144
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartIndia–a cradle of civilization with five millennia of history, a country of immense consequence and contradiction–often defies ready understanding. What holds its people together–across its many cu
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Zubrzycki, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199977
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartA country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation un
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hawes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 1615195696
- Language: English
