Random House, January 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places" (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities--an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of.....
Princeton University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 1167 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A panoramic global history of the nineteenth century A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of.....
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.....
Oxford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 165 pages. Selections from the author's six-volume set, A Study of History, with a focus on the dangers of militarism. Selected by Albert Vann Fowler. First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket.
Harper Perennial, 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us." -- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Great Plague is.....
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.....
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).
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.....
Da Capo Press, January 1971. Hardcover.
Macmillan Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. xxxiii, 788 pages. The complete text (also issued in two separate volumes). First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
(n.p.), (n.d., but 1912). First Edition. Hardcover. 85 pages. A case for the reevaluation of the Borgias, issued (based on the introduction) for Christmas 1912. The author is noted as C. G. K. only. A bit of research shows that someone signing himself (or less likely, herself) C. G. K......