History - Civilization

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest...

Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic, secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people today have little sense of how their lives have benefited from Christianity's influence, often viewing the church with hostility or resentment. How Christianity Changed the World is a topically arranged Christian history...

Francis Schaeffer's Classic Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis A. Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. Profoundly aware of the similarities modern culture shares...

Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A book in the best tradition of popular history--the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. - The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift!Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but...

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made...

An award-winning Oxford history professor "makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve" (The Wall Street Journal)--that the West is, and always has been, truly global. "Those archaic 'Western Civ' classes so many of us took in college should be updated,...

An urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose--culturally, politically, and personally--when a language is silenced? "A vivid, hopeful portrait of how people around the world are staying connected to their linguistic roots."--Gretchen McCulloch, author...

Welcome to the most interesting dinner party you've ever attended! Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. You'll have a front row seat at the party, listening in to the early small talk--where light and fun ideas are discussed ("Did...

A detailed guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive History is the most dangerous place on earth. From dinosaurs the size of locomotives to meteors big enough to sterilize the planet, from famines to...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The "lively" (The New Yorker), "convincing" (Forbes), and "riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The "lively" (The New Yorker), "convincing" (Forbes), and "riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...

I Francesi in Italia (1796-1815) - La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero Il 27 di questo medesimo mese di marzo, il cittadino generale Bonaparte, prendendo il comando di quell'esercito d'Italia che per tre anni continui aveva tentato indarno di rompere la...

Il Regno d'Etruria - La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero Alla Societ di pubbliche letture, chiamandomi a Firenze, piacque concedermi di parlarvi della vostra storia nella mia lingua nativa. Mi scuser con essa e con voi; e quasi avrei intenzione di...

*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward...

This is Yockey's famous masterpiece. It is inspired by Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West. Imperium advocates the creation of a pan-European empire governed by sound principles or 'absolute politics'. It is divided into five parts, which are concerned with History, Politics, 'Cultural Vitalism',...

The idea that all human beings were created in God's image was core to the creation of the modern West In God's Image examines the central role that the idea that all people were created in the image of God played in the development...

This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes based on information handed down by our ancestors. He mentioned there that, as...

India, Its Life and ThoughtTo the people of the West, the inhabitants of India are the least understood and the most easily misunderstood of all men. It is partly because they are antipodal to the Westthe farthest removed in thought and life. They are...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? Did they come close to an industrial revolution? Did they drink beer? In a series of fast-paced essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines answers 40 questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has been...