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The Horse: A Galloping History of HumanityTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER High Plains International Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book From New York Times...
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our FutureBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones-- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but...
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000"The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK) "A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary Review (UK) A unique and...
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The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of MoralityIn this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us...
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human OriginsBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory--and, in this respect, our current era is no...
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human OriginsBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory--and, in this respect, our current era is no...
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and ConnectionIn this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age "Terrific... Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways that empires, nations, and smaller sets of people have responded to their surroundings, influenced...
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The Japanese SpiritThe Japanese SpiritWe have had illuminating books upon Japan. Those of Lafcadio Hearn will always be remembered for the poetry he brought in them to bear upon the poetic aspects of the country and the people. Buddhism had a fascination for him, as it...
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The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American KinThe Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American KinMy first visit to the United States of Americaa short onewas paid in 1888. The observations on which this book is mainly based were, however, made in 1890-93, when I spent nearly three years...
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to CleopatraAlexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives--the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)--is little known. In The Last Dynasty, New York Times best-selling author Toby Wilkinson unravels the...
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The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on HistoryThe Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History In offering to the public a second edition of The Law of Civilization and Decay I take the opportunity to say emphatically that such value as the essay may have lies in its freedom...
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The Legacy of GreeceThe Legacy of Greece - Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald BlomfieldIn spite of many differences, no age has had...
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The Lessons of HistoryA 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...
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern WorldA tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity. The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in...
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The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D.235)Relying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics: supply needs and rations; packs, trains...
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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and MurderFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, a jaw-dropping discovery of an Egyptian tomb opens up a slew of archaeological mysteries and deadly tales. Now in paperback with an EXCITING BONUS ADVENTURE! What's it like to be the...
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The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final DayAward-winning ancient historian, archaeologist, and social media sensation Dr. Jess Venner re-creates Pompeii's final day before Mount Vesuvius's eruption, revealing not just how its people died but how they lived. While today the ruins of Pompeii stand silent and preserved in ash and stone,...
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The Magic of the Middle AgesThe Magic of the Middle AgesThis highest and immovable heaven, enveloping all the others and constituting the boundary between created things and the void, infinite space beyond, is the Empyrean, the heaven of fire, named also by the Platonizing philosophers the world of archetypes....
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The Making of Modern JapanThe Making of Modern Japan - An Account of the Progress of Japan from Pre-feudal Days to Constitutional Government & the Position of a Great Power, With Chapters on Religion, the Complex Family System, Education, &c.The Authors thanks are due to His Excellency Baron...
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The March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamPulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's...
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