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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
$25.99 Add to cartOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beau
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 15, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062316117
- Language: English
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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
$10.95 Add to cartOriginally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York.
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 123
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1617590304
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
$19.95 Add to cartBuilding on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes.
An “indispensable volume” on class… [more below]- Author: Harman, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1786630818
- Language: English
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Salt: A World History
$19.00 Read more“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” – New York Times Book Review
An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World Best-selling author Mark- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0142001619
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$22.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316418528
- Language: English
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The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086351
- 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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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs–And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
$35.00 Add to cartThe centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning–and the pitfalls of ego–as it does about microbes.
Scientists and enthusiastic amateu- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242734
- Language: English
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Silk Roads
$65.00 Add to cartExplores how the movement of people, objects, and ideas from 500 to 1000 CE shaped cultures and histories
In the ninth century CE, an Arabian ship sank off the coast of Indonesia. The objects found in
- Author: Brunning, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753536
- Language: English
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Humans: A Monstrous History
$29.95 Add to cartA history of how humans have created monsters out of one another–from our deepest fears–and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
Monsters are central to how we think abo- Author: Davies, Surekha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0520388097
- Language: English
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
$17.99 Add to cartThroughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender t… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1568586124
- Language: English
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The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History That Created Your World – Illustrated Edition
$26.99 Add to cartSet your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in
- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1547600217
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartA special edition of the international bestseller that is “sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with… [more below]
- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0300197187
- Language: English
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The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic: An Illustrated History
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the days of the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism, and Islam. Secret words, spells, an
- Author: Dell, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0500518882
- Language: English
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Red: A History of the Redhead
$28.00 Add to cartRed is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multi… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, Jacky Colliss
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 157912996X
- Language: English
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Paper: Paging Through History
$18.99 Read morePaper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literac
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353702
- Language: English
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
$17.95 Add to cartMost of us give little thought to the back of the book–it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikel
- Author: Duncan, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050519
- Language: English
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Historia A?o a A?o (History Year by Year): Los Acontecimientos Que Cambiaron El Mundo
$50.00 Add to cartUn recorrido a?o a a?o por los acontecimientos m?s memorables de la historia mundial.
Cu?ndo cruz? An?bal los Alpes? Qu? caus? la guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins? Qui?n fue Rosa Parks? C?mo se desar- Author: Dk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 059384808X
- Language: Spanish
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
$38.00 Add to cartAn award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West … [more below]
- Author: Quinn, Josephine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 059372979X
- Language: English
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Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History
$28.95 Add to cartJourney to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history.
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and- Author: Taylor, William T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0520380673
- Language: English
