What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Author: Jared Diamond
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with an ... |
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Author: Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, ... |
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Author: Jerry H. Bentley & Herbert F. Ziegler
Connect students to the stories of history. Connect students to the experience of history. Connect students to success in history. At McGraw-Hill, we have dedicated the past few years to deepening our understanding of st ... |
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How Britain Made the Modern World
Author: Niall Ferguson
Shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it ended, and how - for better or worse - it made our world what it is ... |
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A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years
Author: Jared M. Diamond
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the ... |
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History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Author: Peter Watson
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time ... |
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From Ancient Egypt to Iraq
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Take a guided tour of every major conflict through the ages. Trace the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror with "War", now in compact format. Explore the campaigns and conflict ... |
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Ambition and the Limits of Loyalty
Author: Graham Stewart
Drawing on a wide range of historical examples, Graham Stewart explores the intriguing question of whether friendship can survive the pressures of public life. He examines in detail three relationships from across centur ... |
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Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Author: Andrew D. Lambert
In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chanc ... |
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The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and How it Led to the Settlement of Australia
Author: Emma Christopher
This is a story lost to history for over 200 years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over. In the wake of its most cru ... |
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A Short History of Modern Delusions
Author: Francis Wheen
An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events o ... |
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From Hogarth to Noel Coward
Author: Paul Johnson
In "Intellectuals", Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In "Creators", he examined a a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in "Heroes", he brough ... |
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Author: Hugh Williams
What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world? In this highly entertaining read Hugh Williams distils world history into an insightful overview. By selecting fifty key p ... |
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A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Author: Simon Winchester
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester For thousands of years the Atlantic Ocean was viewed by mariners with a mixture of awe, terror and amazement -- an impassable barri ... |
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A Cultural History of Terrorism
Author: Michael Burleigh
A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world, from its beginnings to the modern day, from the highly acclaimed author of 'Sacred Causes' and 'Earthly Powers'. The paperback edition will be updated to cover recent ... |
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Author: Conn Iggulden & David Iggulden
From the co-author of the bestselling 'The Dangerous Book for Boys', this is a book of heroes, new and old, known and sadly forgotten, now to be glorified as they ought to be. From Captain Scott to Joe Simpson, from Doug ... |
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Author: Jerry H. Bentley & Herbert F. Ziegler
Connect students to the stories of history. Connect students to the experience of history. Connect students to success in history. At McGraw-Hill, we have dedicated the past few years to deepening our understanding of st ... |
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Author: Richard Overy
The ultimate work of historical reference From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the Wo ... |
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Love and Betrayal in 18th-Century India
Author: William Dalrymple
'White Mughals' is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Residen ... |
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A Memoir of Love and War
Author: Aidan Hartley
A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fic ... |
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