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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
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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541601963
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$24.95 Read morePeople 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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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- Language: English
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Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Add to cart“Uncovers some of the most interesting stories of how animals … have impacted human civilization in economic, political, and industrial history. This is an original approach that links the biologic
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 177085634X
- Language: English
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Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
$23.00 Add to cartWith a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reve… [more below]
- Author: Saul, John Ralston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1476718962
- Language: English
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American Indian Stories: Large Print Edition
$25.99 Add to cartLARGE PRINT EDITION . American Indian Stories (1921) is a collection of stories and essays from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Sá. Published while Zitkála-Sá was at the height of her career as an a
- Series: Mint Editions (Native Stories, Indigenous Voices)
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1513137514
- Language: English
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Conduct of War PB
$21.99 Add to cartThe Conduct of War is the study of the way in which political and economical changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, and its theme is that war which i… [more below]
- Series: Quality Paperbacks Series
- Author: Fuller, J. F. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306804670
- Language: English
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Solar Behavior: How Solar- and Geomagnetic Conditions shape Human History, the current Self- Destruction Attempt of the West and the n
$13.00 Add to cartGrand Solar Minima, the “bad-weather- periods” are times of peace, reason and socio- political developments in favor of human rights. Inversely, almost all wars and genocides take place in Grand Solar
- Author: Dobler, Sacha P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 3033082246
- Language: English
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The Great Cities in History
$18.95 Read moreToday, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here?
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotam
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0500292515
- Language: English
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The World’s Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThis outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to moder… [more below]
- Author: Copeland, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0486409031
- Language: English
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The Global Earth/Mars Initiative: A Concise History of the First Thirty Years of the Greatest Project Humanity Has Ever Attempted
$18.99 Add to cartJoin William Bookmaker, a fictitious historian from the late 2050s, as he chronicles the first thirty years (2025-2055) of the most remarkable project humanity has ever envisioned and attempted to exe
- Author: Brown, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989578825
- Language: English
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Historia Universal (Timelines of World History): Un Recorrido Visual a Trav?s de Los A?os
$40.00 Read moreCrees que las l?neas temporales pueden ser tu m?todo para aprender historia?
A trav?s de cronolog?as, este libro sintetiza la historia mundial considerando el espacio y el tiempo en que ocurrieron su- Series: DK Timelines
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0744064325
- Language: Spanish
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Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
$16.95 Add to cart“Original sin is the Western world’s creation story.”
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s grace can they achieve salvation. In t- Author: Boyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027186
- Language: English
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization
$18.99 Add to cartVeteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization–the chicke… [more below]
- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1476729905
- Language: English
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Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
$22.00 Add to cartWere World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case th- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0307405168
- Language: English
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They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
$42.00 Add to cartA sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global p- Author: Benton, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0691248478
- Language: English
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have hel… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0743235940
- 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
$43.68 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 520293134
- Language: English
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The Jews
$10.80 Add to cartThe object of this book is explain the relation between the Jews and the nations around them in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The author addresses problems and challenges of mutual life… [more below]
- Author: Belloc, Hilaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 8027342341
- Language: English
