Civilization
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
$29.99 Add to cartThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.
Daughter. Duhit?r-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these Englis- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1639732586
- Language: English
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Native American History: A Captivating Guide to the Long History of Native Americans Including Stories of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Native Ame
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to explore the shocking history of the Native Americans then keep reading…
“History is written by the victors,” said the victor Winston Churchill. But does that compromise the truth of wh
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483972
- Language: English
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE – “An essential American history” (The Wall Street Journal) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient citi… [more below]
- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0525511059
- Language: English
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Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE
$19.95 Add to cartA panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history
This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa,- Author: Ehret, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691244863
- Language: English
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The Annals & The Histories
$21.00 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0812966996
- Language: English
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The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
$32.50 Add to cartThe epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, offering a “timely” (Odd Arne Westad, coauthor of The Great Transformation) argument that the decline of the West may be a good thing fo… [more below]
- Author: Acharya, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604148
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$20.00 Add to cart“I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book…there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up.” –Annie Proulx
*A New York Times Book Review Editors- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031094
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$22.99 Add to cartFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, an “exceptionally rich narrative” (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606051
- Language: English
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be i… [more below]
- Author: Zalloua, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730909
- Language: English
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Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
$32.00 Add to cartA richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories ab
- Author: Wade, Lizzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063097303
- Language: English
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Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]: A Brief History of Humankind
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063422018
- Language: English
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The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World
$45.00 Add to cartFor millennia, the Mediterranean has been one of the global cockpits of human endeavor. World- class interpretations exist of its classical and subsequent history, but there has been remarkably little
- Author: Broodbank, Cyprian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0500026440
- Language: English
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
$32.00 Add to cartIn this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed–why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #12
- Author: Cline, Eric H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691192138
- Language: English
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The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History That Created Your World – Illustrated Edition
$26.99 Add to cartSet your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in
- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1547600217
- Language: English
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
$19.99 Add to cart“Wonderful….Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalist’s eye and a philosopher’s cunning.” –Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diamond, Jared M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 60845503
- Language: English
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Atlantis: The Find of a Lifetime
$22.95 Add to cartNever before has there been a real discovery where all the physical characteristics of a proposed location matched Plato’s description of Atlantis. Not even the original Santorini hypothesis could suf
- Author: Djonis, Christos a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1662442599
- Language: English
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A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
$38.00 Add to cartA Foundational Conservation Story Revived
Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, “even t
- Author: Perlin, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1938340973
- Language: English
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A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
$16.95 Read moreA vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not j… [more below]
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297053
- Language: English
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What Are Castles and Knights?
$7.99 Add to cartGo back to the thrilling time of warring knights who were prepared to give their life in order to protect their lord and his castle.
Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in rea- Series: What Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0593226860
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.
$69.99 Add to cartThe Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. covers great swathes of time beginning with the earliest written records of the Hebrews, Sumerians, Baby
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003866
- Language: English
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