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by Yuval Noah Harari
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.**
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about...
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
New York Times Bestseller
A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and...
Les Routes de la Soie
L'histoire du cœur du monde
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2017
D’Alexandre le Grand aux nouvelles Routes de la Soie, 2500 ans d’histoire comme vous ne l’avez jamais lue.
Avec son « histoire du cœur du monde », Peter Frankopan renverse notre récit traditionnel, qui gravite autour de la Grèce antique, de Rome et de l’irrésistible ascension...
by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern...
The German Genius
Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy,...
The Pursuit of Glory
The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
**"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times
"A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist
The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series**
Between the...
Justinian's Flea
The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
From the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure and The Third Horseman, the epic story of the collision between one of nature's smallest organisms and history's mightiest empire
During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North...
Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning...
by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. This Kobo edition includes 136 endnotes and 13 illustrations that help contemporary reader to better understand the author, his ideas, historical context, his references to numerous names and events....
Commentaries on the Gallic War
And Other Commentaries of Gaius Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on The Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed...
The Master and His Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen...
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and...
by J. B. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
JULIUS CESAR, the triumvir and the founder of the Roman Empire, was the grandnephew of C. Julius Caesar, the dictator, his adoptive father. Originally named, like his true father, C. Octavius, he entered the Julian family after the dictator's death, and, according to the usual practice of adopted...
The Gene
An Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously,...