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A Brief History of the Human Race
$27.99 Add to cartWhy has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role o… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326454
- Language: English
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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
$20.99 Add to cartGuerrilla warfare is not just the tool of modern-day terrorists in the Middle East. Its roots stretch back to our very own revolution.
In Violent Politics, William R. Polk takes us on a concise, brilli
- Author: Polk, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0061236209
- Language: English
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
$19.99 Add to cartPeter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such con
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0060935642
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin,
$16.97 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of the Industrial Revolution
For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to c
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1647488508
- Language: English
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5 Cities That Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London & New York Shaped Global History
$19.99 Add to cartIn Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities –Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London
- Author: Wilson, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1595551360
- Language: English
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Adam’s Synchronological Chart or Map of History [with Key] [With Key]
$49.99 Read moreThis is a time line that follows the Annals of the World time line by James Ussher.
- Author: Adams, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 21
- Publish Date: August 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0890515050
- Language: English
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The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
$36.00 Add to cartDavid Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated … [more below]
- Author: Roskies, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0827604149
- Language: English
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The Horse in Human History
$62.33 Add to cartThe horse is surely the “aristocrat” of animals domesticated by man. This book documents the origins of horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes some 6,000 years ago and the consequent migrat… [more below]
- Author: Kelekna, Pita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: April 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0521736293
- Language: English
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
$24.00 Read moreThe bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a bette… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124404
- Language: English
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
$30.00 Read moreA New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive … [more below]- Author: Dartnell, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617908
- Language: English
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The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
$19.99 Add to cartFrom ancient times to the present day, astrology has captured the imagination — is it possible that human fate is influenced by the stars? Astrologers throughout the ages have advised the powerful, f… [more below]
- Author: Bobrick, Benson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0743268954
- Language: English
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read more“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”–Boston Globe
The auth
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062938339
- Language: English
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
$20.00 Add to cartIn this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400078334
- Language: English
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A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats
$15.99 Add to cartA Splintered History of Wood is a passionate and personal exploration of nature’s greatest gift: wood. In the successful tradition of books such as Salt and Cod, writer and carpenter Spike Carlsen exp
- Author: Carlsen, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0061373575
- Language: English
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Colonialism in Global Perspective
$42.50 Add to cartKris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe’s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the rea… [more below]
- Author: Manjapra, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 110844136X
- Language: English
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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities
$35.00 Add to cartEvangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to ar… [more below]
- Author: White, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0393081923
- Language: English
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Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet
$37.00 Add to cart- Author: Nightingale, Carl H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 814
- Publish Date: June 09 2022
- ISBN10: 110842452X
- Language: English
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The Great Journeys in History
$18.95 Read moreFerdinand Magellan, Genghis Khan, Thor Heyerdahl, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travelers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing
- Author: Hanbury-Tenison, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0500287031
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
$21.99 Read moreEverything you should know–but PC professors won’t teach–about Western heritage.
Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of huma- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Esolen, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1596980591
- Language: English
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