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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
$31.18 Add to cartNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, govern… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 30 2018
- ISBN10: 520299930
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
$32.00 Add to cartFrom renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.
The Viking wars- Author: Gibbins, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325374
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora- Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0465097847
- Language: English
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
$35.00 Add to cart“A landmark book…[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire.”
An award-winning historian places the corporation–more than the Crown–at the heart of B
–Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs- Author: Stern, Philip J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0674988124
- Language: English
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Culture and Imperialism
$20.00 Add to cartA landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.
In the ninetee- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 679750541
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)
The story of humanity is the story of textiles–as o- Author: Postrel, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617622
- Language: English
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
$22.99 Add to cartA “riveting and illuminating” Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don’t (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landma… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0316409146
- Language: English
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History: The Definitive Visual Guide
$60.00 Add to cartThis lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.
Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History ch- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0744073731
- Language: English
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The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
$34.00 Read more“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”–Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author … [more below]
- Author: Mac Sweeney, Nao?se
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0593472179
- Language: English
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After Eden: A Short History of the World
$35.00 Add to cartIn After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity’
- Author: Chasteen, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: 14-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 1324036923
- Language: English
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Plagues and Peoples
$19.00 Read moreThe history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact–political, demographic, ecological, and psychological–of disease on cultur… [more below]
- Author: McNeill, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 1977
- ISBN10: 0385121229
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$22.99 Add to cartThe “engaging” and “ambitious” (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
The history of the library is rich, varied, and
- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603729
- Language: English
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
$14.99 Add to cartNational Geographic author Michael Farquhar uncovers an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the year. From Caligula’s blood-soaked end to hotelier Stev… [more below]
- Author: Farquhar, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1426218079
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the World
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the World is “an entire library’s worth of scholarship [in] a single volume” (San Francisco Gate).
“Authentically mind-boggling.” —Kirk- Author: Booth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1590201620
- Language: English
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The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan–History’s Most Curious Questions, Answered
$32.50 Add to cartThis entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate–with a unique blend of wit, wis… [more below]
- Author: Goalhanger Podcasts
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541704517
- Language: English
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Timeline of World History
$25.99 Add to cartChart the course of history through the ages with this collection of oversize foldout charts and timelines.
Timeline of World History is a unique work of visual reference from the founders of the Usef- Author: Baker, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 20, 2020
- ISBN10: 1645174174
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller * The inspiration for the TV series starring Dan Aykroyd
“There aren’t many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern h- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0802715524
- Language: English
