Civilization - History
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A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject – In One Book!
$24.99 Add to cartA concise introduction to all the key tenets of electrical and mechanical engineering degree course, written by former NASA engineer Dr David Baker.
A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engi- Series: Degree in a Book #5
- Author: Baker, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1839406674
- 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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The Good Old Days– They Were Terrible!
$18.00 Read moreThe Good Old Days–were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so–especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900… [more below]
- Author: Bettmann, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394709411
- Language: English
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The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfol
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the big bang to the present and into the next millenium, The Universe Story unites science and the humanities in a dramatic exploration of the unfolding of the universe, humanity’s evolving place… [more below]
- Author: Swimme, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0062508350
- Language: English
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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si鐵le Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for bot… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weir, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0190610220
- 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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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The ris… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0465022820
- 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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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
$28.95 Read moreMoving 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035455
- Language: English
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Critical Path
$28.00 Read moreCritical Path marks the masterwork of one of the finest minds and most significant thinkers of the modern age
R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century- Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0312174918
- Language: English
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
$40.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack O
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 27, 2020
- ISBN10: 0063055082
- Language: English
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Plagues and Peoples
$19.00 Read moreThe history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact–political, demographic, ecological, and psychological–of disease on cultur… [more below]
- Author: McNeill, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 1977
- ISBN10: 0385121229
- Language: English
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
$37.50 Add to cartOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
New York Times Bestseller
A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg
From a renowned historian come
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10, 2015
- ISBN10: 0062316095
- Language: English
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Timeline of World History
$25.99 Add to cartChart the course of history through the ages with this collection of oversize foldout charts and timelines.
Timeline of World History is a unique work of visual reference from the founders of the Usef- Author: Baker, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 20, 2020
- ISBN10: 1645174174
- Language: English
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
$27.99 Add to cartOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beau
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 27, 2020
- ISBN10: 0063051338
- Language: English
