Civilization
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Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
$18.99 Add to cartWhat good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the “know-how” of life, but the “know-why”–the
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074507
- Language: English
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Making of the World: Sapiens’ Journey From Wilderness to Civilization
$33.99 Add to cartThis book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).
Humanity was once divided into thousands of smal… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Mahbub H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039185819
- Language: English
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Introduction to African Civilizations
$17.95 Add to cartTimely, relevant, and illuminating, this essential book by respected cultural historian, teacher, and author John G. Jackson sheds long overdue light on standard Eurocentric and distorting approaches … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0806521899
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$28.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867935
- 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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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$32.50 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0316418536
- Language: English
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Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Read moreA striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life.
Gorgeous Collector- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Powell, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175773
- Language: English
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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
$18.00 Add to cart“This book is a tour de force.” –Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzm- Author: Suzman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561773
- Language: English
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
$17.99 Read moreNow a New York Times Bestseller.
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the
- Author: Carlin, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0062868055
- Language: English
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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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American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190622431
- Language: English
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Making of the World: Sapiens’ Journey From Wilderness to Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartThis book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).
Humanity was once divided into thousands of smal… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Mahbub H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039185800
- Language: English
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
$37.50 Add to cartIn this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what’s really important and what’s just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that mat… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, E. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 03 2002
- ISBN10: 618226478
- Language: English
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People/The Greater Ch Ronicle/Bede’s Letter to Egbert
$13.95 Add to cartThe Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede’s most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History, this edition includes a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537232
- Language: English
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After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands
$19.95 Read moreA necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people
After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossess- Author: Jacobs, Margaret D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691227144
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
$100.00 Add to cartThe first three volumes of the most famous historical chronicle in English, in hardcover in a gorgeously illustrated box set, with an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Edward Gibbon… [more below]- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1902
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423087
- Language: English
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Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church
$24.95 Add to cartAll the makings of your favorite adventure story – drama, intrigue, promise, love, hope, and heartache spanning two thousand years…and YOU are a part of it!
Timeless: A History of the Catholic Churc
- Author: Weidenkopf, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1681921480
- Language: English
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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
$19.94 Add to cartThe history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not thought widely in schools. The time necessary to study t
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0592438848
- Language: English
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome
$36.95 Add to cartThis superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna
- Author: Warry, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127945
- Language: English
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Mesoamerican History: A Captivating Guide to Four Ancient Civilizations that Existed in Mexico – The Olmec, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec Civiliza
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Mesoamerica, then keep reading…
Four captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Olmecs: A Captivating Guide to the Earliest Known Major Ancient Civiliza
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483158
- Language: English
