Civilization
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
$21.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and- Author: Conway, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467426
- Language: English
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A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now
$31.99 Add to cartCollectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, and considered great public benefactors. But collectors have also been seen as dangerous obsessives who love objects to
- Author: Delbourgo, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0393541967
- Language: English
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Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
$35.99 Add to cartAll golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and … [more below]
- Author: Norberg, Johan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1838957294
- Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
$19.99 Add to cartBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us abou… [more below]
- Author: Geroulanos, Stefanos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096128
- Language: English
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Tamed: From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human History
$18.95 Add to cartDogs became companions.
Wheat fed booming populations.
Cattle gave us meat and milk.
Corn fueled the growth of empires.
Potatoes brought feast and famine.
Chickens inspired new branches of science.
Rice pr- Author: Roberts, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
$37.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives–the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)–is little known. In The
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324052031
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$18.95 Add to cartScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0861547306
- Language: English
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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism
$24.99 Read moreA Short History of Relations Between Peoples traces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last 50… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774053
- Language: English
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Scottish History and Mythology: An Enthralling Journey Through Scotland’s Past and Legendary Myths
$27.99 Add to cartUnlock Scotland’s Secrets: Journey Through History and Myth in One Exciting Book
Two manuscripts in one book:
- History of Scotland: An Enthralling Overview of Important Events and Figures
Scottish Mythol
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
$19.95 Add to cartThe first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revo
- Author: Allen, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966289
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Add to cartA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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G?bekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World’s First Megaliths
$8.95 Add to cartWhat is the earliest temple complex on Earth? Who built it? Is it really 7,000 years older than Stonehenge and the pyramids? How did such a sophisticated civilization evade detection for so long?
In- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Newman, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1952178444
- Language: English
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The Case for Colonialism
$39.99 Add to cart“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article “The Case for Colonialism” of 2017. The article sparked a global furo
- Author: Gilley, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003890
- Language: English
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Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
$28.00 Add to cartA unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod
Tim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about r- Author: Queeney, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250346452
- Language: English
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
$31.99 Read moreThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and
- Author: Al-Rashid, Moudhy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036427
- Language: English
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Sapiens. Una Historia Gr?fica 3: Los Amos de la Historia / Sapiens. a Graphic History 3: The Masters of History
$25.95 Add to cartEn este nuevo volumen de la adaptaci?n gr?fica de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen y Daniel Casaneve contin?an, con ingenio, empat?a y originalidad, present?ndonos la complicada historia… [more below]
- Series: Una Historia Gr?fica
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 8419951188
- Language: Spanish
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Alexandria: The City That Changed the World
$21.95 Add to cartAn original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.
Islam Issa’s father had always told him about their city’s magnificence, an- Author: Issa, Islam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368728
- Language: English
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
$32.50 Add to cartFrom “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind–and through all five senses–from tropical Polynesian islands to forbi… [more below]
- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0316496553
- Language: English
