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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
$19.99 Add to cartEuropeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid an
- Author: Bale, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324106980
- 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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Paper: Paging Through History
$19.99 Add to cartPaper 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 Read moreMost 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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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$24.95 Add to cartPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very di
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 189101157X
- Language: English
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
$35.00 Add to cartTake a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.
Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an es- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462406
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$49.33 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE – A Pulitzer Prize finalist that’s as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came
- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0375713964
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$56.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Breve Historia del Mundo. Edición Ilustrada
$26.95 Read moreNueva edición ilustrada de esta obra clásica que lleva décadas divulgando la historia del mundo a lectores de todas las edades.
Esta Breve historia del mundo no es un manual al uso: es la historia d
- Author: Gombrich, Ernst H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 6075692282
- Language: Spanish
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
$15.95 Read moreThe human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490990
- Language: English
