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The Written World
The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal...
by Leonard Cottrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
The Tomb of Tutankhamun. A candle flame flickers on treasures that have lain in darkness for 3,250 years. Lord Carnarvon: "Can you see anything?" Howard Carter: "Yes . . . wonderful things!" Carter did, indeed, stumble on wonderful things. Here is one of the world's most exciting...
Empires of Food
Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor.
Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century merchant as a narrative guide, Empires of Food vividly chronicles the...
It's Better Than It Looks
Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?
Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental...
by Peter Daughtrey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Delve into an ancient mystery and witness the unveiling of the most complete and persuasive evidence for the real location of the lost empire of Atlantis.
More than two thousand years ago, Plato laid out a series of cryptic clues about the location of Atlantis. Since then, countless experts...
by Colin Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….
Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this...
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors...
Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Environmental...
by Toby Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”—Los Angeles Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly
In this landmark volume, one of...
Salt
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2003
An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World
In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from...
Prehistory
The Making of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory”...
Catastrophe
An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2000
It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped...
by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.
With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through...
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 2
A Translation from the German By John Lees ... With an Introduction By Lord Redesdale
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
Replica of 1911 edition by F. Bruckmann, A. G., München.
Elibron Classics. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899) was the best-selling work by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In...