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A History of the World in 100 Animals
$39.95 Read moreFully illustrated in color, a fascinating exploration of the one hundred animals that have had the most profound influence on humanity throughout the ages.
We are not alone. We are not alone on the p- Author: Barnes, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139150
- Language: English
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
$23.00 Add to cartIs peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE N- Author: MacMillan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593132378
- Language: English
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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
$34.95 Add to cartBest All-Time Booze Book, Eater.com2013
GOLD Winner for Women Studies, ForeWord Reviews 2014
Silver, Independent Publisher Award in Women’s Issues
Finalist, Spirited AwardsShortly after graduating from t
- Author: Minnick, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1612345646
- Language: English
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The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies
$27.95 Add to cartMining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the… [more below]
- Author: Bayley, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1585090700
- Language: English
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Young, Robert J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198856830
- Language: English
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
$30.00 Read moreSince the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next–a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform–borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought ove
- Author: Crawford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324037040
- Language: English
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The Invention of Tradition
$26.00 Add to cartMany of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores exa… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604672
- Language: English
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History Map by Map Collection: 3 Book Box Set
$130.00 Read moreWitness our incredible human story unfold and chart the world’s most significant battles through these bold and beautiful bold maps – now available in a beautifully packaged box set.
SI History Map by… [more below]- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0744081874
- Language: English
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Ecological Imperialism
$26.00 Add to cartPeople of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are ea… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crosby, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569877
- Language: English
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The Education of Henry Adams
$14.95 Add to cartAs a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestselle… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Adams, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552363
- Language: English
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartA work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted na
- Author: Colley, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092386
- Language: English
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
$25.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure,… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345308239
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
$7.95 Add to cartClassic collection of black history and trivia
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper featur
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0960229477
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply&#- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617940
- Language: English
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Strategy: A History
$41.99 Add to cartSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013
In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of st- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325154
- Language: English
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
$35.00 Add to cartIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel–in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship … [more below]
- Author: Cothran, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676559
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
$24.99 Add to cartLarry Gonick’s celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. P… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon History of the Earth (Paperback) #03
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393324036
- Language: English
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
$32.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford’s massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the … [more below]
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 23 1968
- ISBN10: 0156180359
- Language: English
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Racism: A Short History
$22.95 Add to cartA concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn’t racism appear in Europe before t- Series: Princeton Classics #106
- Author: Fredrickson, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167052
- Language: English
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The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
$40.00 Add to cartThe world-famous reference that tells who did what when from 4500 BC to the present day–now updated for the 21st century.
“A unique, encyclopedic book–rewarding, informative, entertaining.” —The Wa- Author: Grun, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0743270037
- Language: English
