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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers
$18.00 Read moreA new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed “a Dot-Com cult classic,” by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, th
- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 162040592X
- Language: English
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African People in World History
$11.95 Read moreThis book surveys the impact that African people have made on world history. Dr. Clarke guides the reader along a narrative journey that spans from antiquity through present times.
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0933121776
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartThe international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
“All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: wha- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0300108834
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the national bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization–a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
“Intoxicating…. Cahill’s c- Series: Hinges of History #05
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0385495560
- Language: English
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters
$19.00 Read moreObscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton
The first installment in Giles Milton’s outrageously entertaining series, History’s Unknown- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078776
- Language: English
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Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Read more“The brief sections are consistently interesting, and plenty of supplemental illustrations and photos make this a handsome volume… best-suited to curious kids and casual mineralogists.” –Publisher
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1770855874
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$17.95 Read moreThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, accla
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356264
- Language: English
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The Decline of the West
$17.95 Add to cartSince its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a… [more below]
- Author: Spengler, Oswald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400097002
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
$40.00 Read moreA dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.
From the rise of Sa- Author: Lieven, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0735222193
- Language: English
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Jewels: A Secret History
$20.00 Read moreThroughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her ow… [more below]
- Author: Finlay, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 345466950
- Language: English
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
$19.99 Read moreThese 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . .
Pop history meets a funny, feminist point-of-view in these i… [more below]- Author: McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1683690257
- Language: English
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
$19.00 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’–the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”–Kyle Harper, The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229436
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$35.00 Read moreFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cu… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610397967
- Language: English
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What Is History, Now?
$19.99 Read moreThis groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that h
- Author: Lipscomb, Suzannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 147462247X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Canada
$35.00 Add to cartMargaret Conrad’s history of Canada explains what makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state. Beginning in Canada’s deep past with the arrival of its Indigenous peoples, she trac… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Conrad, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: August 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1108736378
- Language: English
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Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
$20.00 Add to cart“[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”–The Wall Street Journal
“A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revi- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0399591052
- Language: English
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Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
$29.99 Add to cartIn the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed t
- Author: Green, Nile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324002417
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$25.00 Read moreThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267479
- Language: English
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
$35.00 Read moreIt’s been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces -… [more below]
- Author: Peckham, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1788167236
- Language: English
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
$18.99 Add to cartMoving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections betw
- Author: Sattin, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074744
- Language: English
