Overview :Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Oba... Read More
Overview :Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surroundi... Read More
Overview :An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest c... Read More
Overview :In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population exp... Read More
Overview :In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler's classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than... Read More
Overview :A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese ... Read More
Overview :"Ambitious.... The truth is that Fromkin's outline is persuasively thought out and presented."--The Washington Post Book World As the human ... Read More
Overview :An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George. An exuberant and ... Read More
Overview :Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses eve... Read More
Overview :Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, infor... Read More
Overview :Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends t... Read More
Overview :A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades For almost two decad... Read More
Overview :This work challenges all the standard approaches to the saga of African history, from the dawn of prehistory to the modern resurgent Africa ... Read More
Overview :"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." --The S... Read More
Overview :In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it... Read More
Overview :Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the Year "Outstanding, original, an... Read More
Overview :For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clock... Read More
Overview :The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written ... Read More