Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human.....
Univ Of Minnesota Press, October 2015. Trade Paperback. What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a......
Selmar Hess, 1894. Hardcover. Complete set. Each volume about 200 pages. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. Short, illustrated essays about famous people of history. Black-and-white plates with printed tissue guard protectors. Brown cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine and covers, with gilt page edges. Volumes I - II with.....
Penguin Classics, June 2002. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). Who was Elizabeth I's true father? Who really murdered the princes in the Tower? Did Buckingham poison James I? And who was the Man in the Iron Mask?
Walker Publishing Company, May 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). The New York Times Bestseller "There aren't many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern history." --Los Angeles Times Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola: In Tom Standage's deft.....
Penguin Books, January 2019. Trade Paperback. The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times Niall Ferguson has again.....
J. Ricker'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1901. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 106 pages. Text in German. First edition (first printing). Very good in tan printed wrappers (paperback).
J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green cloth with black lettering. Mild edge wear. Pencil notes in margins. No dust jacket.
Vintage, October 1967. Trade Paperback. Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected for scrutiny. Millions have crossed the Rubicon, but the historians tell.....
Skyhorse, January 2013. Hardcover. The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to history's most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes. In a handsome hardcover format, this handy encyclopedia of totalitarians is as informative as it is titillating, a lurid panorama of history's most.....
Harper Perennial, May 2006. Trade Paperback. In the sixteenth century, one of the world's most precious commodities was cochineal, a legendary red dye treasured by the ancient Mexicans and sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors. Shipped to Europe, the dye created.....
Vintage, January 1989. Trade Paperback. About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2001. Hardcover. For decades William L. Langer's best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated and dramatically improved version for a new generation, the only encyclopedia of.....
HarperCollins, June 2000. Hardcover. A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat. -- William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions.....
Vintage Books, March 2003. Trade Paperback. By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe's old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would.....
Penguin Books, May 2001. Trade Paperback. From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class.....
Penguin Books, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking.... Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism.--The New York Times Book Review.....
William Morrow, November 1997. Hardcover. What a terrible disappointment the twentieth century has been, was Winston Churchills comment in 1922. One world war was over, more than 6 million soldiers had been killed, and four vast empires had been destroyed. A second mass slaughterin which more than 46 million would.....
Vintage, January 1985. Trade Paperback. An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way.....
Vintage, November 1996. Trade Paperback. One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of.....
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, March 2005. Trade Paperback. John Lukacs was among the most accomplished historians of his generation. In more than thirty books and hundreds of essays, he shed new light on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military struggles of the twentieth century--and on the very nature of history itself.....
Metro, January 2012. Hardcover.
Atria, May 2006. Hardcover. Hodding Carter writes, "The unsung hero of human history was, of course, the Brain of Drains, the Hub of Tubs, the Power of Showers, the Brewer of Sewers...the humble plumber.... The Irish may have saved civilization, once, but plumbers have done so countless times." When we.....
Da Capo Press, January 1971. Hardcover.