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1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization
Edited by Salim T. S. Al-Hassani
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0934-5 (1-4262-0934-7)
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fascinating scientific and technological inventions still being used throughout the world today. Take a look at all of the discoveries that led to the great technological advances of... Read more >
Edited by Salim T. S. Al-Hassani
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0934-5 (1-4262-0934-7)
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization takes readers on a journey through years of forgotten Islamic history to discover one thousand fascinating scientific and technological inventions still being used throughout the world today. Take a look at all of the discoveries that led to the great technological advances of... Read more >
The Endurance
Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Written by Caroline Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40403-0 (0-375-40403-1)
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a... Read more >
Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Written by Caroline Alexander
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 3, 1998
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40403-0 (0-375-40403-1)
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a... Read more >
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Written by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-58967-5 (0-307-58967-6)
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from... Read more >
Written by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-58967-5 (0-307-58967-6)
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from... Read more >
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The Devil's Cup
A History of the World According to Coffee
Written by Stewart Lee Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-44149-2 (0-345-44149-4)
In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen... Read more >
A History of the World According to Coffee
Written by Stewart Lee Allen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-44149-2 (0-345-44149-4)
In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen... Read more >
The Dictionary of Global Culture
What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--from Diderot to Bo Diddley
Written by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72985-3 (0-679-72985-2)
"Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement."—The New York Times Book Review
As the world's axes of population, power, and commerce shift from North to South and from West to East, the old Eurocentric model of culture is giving way to a new global paradigm. This dictionary... Read more >
What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--from Diderot to Bo Diddley
Written by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72985-3 (0-679-72985-2)
"Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement."—The New York Times Book Review
As the world's axes of population, power, and commerce shift from North to South and from West to East, the old Eurocentric model of culture is giving way to a new global paradigm. This dictionary... Read more >
Centuries of Childhood
A Social History of Family Life
Written by Philippe Aries
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 1965
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70286-5 (0-394-70286-7)
The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the... Read more >
A Social History of Family Life
Written by Philippe Aries
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 12, 1965
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70286-5 (0-394-70286-7)
The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the... Read more >
The Hour of Our Death
Written by Philippe Aries
Format: Trade Paperback, 696 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1982
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75156-6 (0-394-75156-6)
This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions... Read more >
Written by Philippe Aries
Format: Trade Paperback, 696 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1982
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-75156-6 (0-394-75156-6)
This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions... Read more >
Holy War
The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72140-0 (0-385-72140-4)
In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem from Islam. It was to... Read more >
The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
Written by Karen Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72140-0 (0-385-72140-4)
In 1095, with the tomb of Jesus still in the hands of infidels and the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks, Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and their swords against the Turks and then recover the holy city of Jerusalem from Islam. It was to... Read more >
Jihad vs. McWorld
Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Written by Benjamin Barber
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 30, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-38304-4 (0-345-38304-4)
With an introduction that addresses the terrorist attacks of September 11th. This is a timely, compelling, and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. On the one hand, consumer capitalism on the global level is rapidly dissolving the social and economic barriers... Read more >
Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Written by Benjamin Barber
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 30, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-38304-4 (0-345-38304-4)
With an introduction that addresses the terrorist attacks of September 11th. This is a timely, compelling, and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. On the one hand, consumer capitalism on the global level is rapidly dissolving the social and economic barriers... Read more >
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A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People
From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present
Written by Eli Barnavi
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4226-3 (0-8052-4226-0)
The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe—an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and drawings, and chronologies and commentaries by leading experts, A Historical... Read more >
From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present
Written by Eli Barnavi
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4226-3 (0-8052-4226-0)
The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe—an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and drawings, and chronologies and commentaries by leading experts, A Historical... Read more >
Freedom's Battle
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27987-3 (0-307-27987-1)
This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action... Read more >
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27987-3 (0-307-27987-1)
This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action... Read more >
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The Great Wave
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Written by Christopher Benfey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75455-5 (0-375-75455-5)
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern... Read more >
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Written by Christopher Benfey
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75455-5 (0-375-75455-5)
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern... Read more >
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95557-9 (0-307-95557-5)
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95557-9 (0-307-95557-5)
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on... Read more >
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The Flight of the Intellectuals
The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press
Written by Paul Berman
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-44-8 (1-935554-44-1)
Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie–and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”–an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only... Read more >
The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press
Written by Paul Berman
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-44-8 (1-935554-44-1)
Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie–and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”–an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only... Read more >
Time Lord
Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Written by Clark Blaise
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72752-8 (0-375-72752-3)
It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately... Read more >
Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Written by Clark Blaise
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72752-8 (0-375-72752-3)
It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately... Read more >
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The Shield of Achilles
War, Peace, and the Course of History
Written by Philip Bobbitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72138-7 (0-385-72138-2)
“We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of... Read more >
War, Peace, and the Course of History
Written by Philip Bobbitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72138-7 (0-385-72138-2)
“We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of... Read more >
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Electric Universe
How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Written by David Bodanis
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-33598-2 (0-307-33598-4)
Winner, 2006 Aventis General Prize, which celebrates the very best in popular science writing for adult readers.
In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets... Read more >
How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
Written by David Bodanis
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-33598-2 (0-307-33598-4)
Winner, 2006 Aventis General Prize, which celebrates the very best in popular science writing for adult readers.
In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets... Read more >
Cleopatra's Nose
Essays on the Unexpected
Written by Daniel J. Boorstin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75518-0 (0-679-75518-7)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers and The Creators demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have changed. For in this provocative book, Boorstin uncovers the elements of accident, improvisation, and contradiction at the core of American institutions... Read more >
Essays on the Unexpected
Written by Daniel J. Boorstin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75518-0 (0-679-75518-7)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers and The Creators demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have changed. For in this provocative book, Boorstin uncovers the elements of accident, improvisation, and contradiction at the core of American institutions... Read more >
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The Discoverers
Written by Daniel J. Boorstin
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-72625-0 (0-394-72625-1)
Winner of the History of Science Society Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
Boorstin's companion volume to The Creators and The Seekers is a vivid, sweeping, and original history of human discovery.
“Compellingly readable . . . a remarkable narrative of the grand intellectual venture of humankind, rich in fascinating, often... Read more >
Written by Daniel J. Boorstin
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 1985
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-72625-0 (0-394-72625-1)
Winner of the History of Science Society Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
Boorstin's companion volume to The Creators and The Seekers is a vivid, sweeping, and original history of human discovery.
“Compellingly readable . . . a remarkable narrative of the grand intellectual venture of humankind, rich in fascinating, often... Read more >
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Written by Anthony Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27656-8 (0-307-27656-2)
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound... Read more >
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Written by Anthony Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27656-8 (0-307-27656-2)
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound... Read more >
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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Written by Hugh Brewster
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-98481-4 (0-307-98481-8)
April 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, yet the haunting story of the doomed liner has lost none of its allure. Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage is a fresh take on this everpopular subject through the prism of the lives of the Titanic's first class passengers -... Read more >
The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Written by Hugh Brewster
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-98481-4 (0-307-98481-8)
April 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, yet the haunting story of the doomed liner has lost none of its allure. Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage is a fresh take on this everpopular subject through the prism of the lives of the Titanic's first class passengers -... Read more >
The Emperor of Scent
A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
Written by Chandler Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75981-9 (0-375-75981-6)
Luca Turin can distinguish the components of just about any smell, from the world’s most refined perfumes to the air in a subway car on the Paris metro. A distinguished scientist, he once worked in an unrelated field, though he made a hobby of collecting fragrances. He eventually published a collection... Read more >
A True Story of Perfume and Obsession
Written by Chandler Burr
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75981-9 (0-375-75981-6)
Luca Turin can distinguish the components of just about any smell, from the world’s most refined perfumes to the air in a subway car on the Paris metro. A distinguished scientist, he once worked in an unrelated field, though he made a hobby of collecting fragrances. He eventually published a collection... Read more >
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A History of Histories
Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
Written by John Burrow
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72767-2 (0-375-72767-1)
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to... Read more >
Epics, Chronicles, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
Written by John Burrow
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72767-2 (0-375-72767-1)
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to... Read more >
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills
The World Before and After Jesus
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48251-6 (0-385-48251-5)
In the third of seven projected volumes in his "Hinges of History" series, critically acclaimed scholar Thomas Cahill examines the life of Jesus and shows students how Western civilization has been influenced by his teaching. Here Cahill explains the social and political context that Jesus was born into-the Roman political presence... Read more >
The World Before and After Jesus
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48251-6 (0-385-48251-5)
In the third of seven projected volumes in his "Hinges of History" series, critically acclaimed scholar Thomas Cahill examines the life of Jesus and shows students how Western civilization has been influenced by his teaching. Here Cahill explains the social and political context that Jesus was born into-the Roman political presence... Read more >
The Gifts of the Jews
How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48249-3 (0-385-48249-3)
In his concise, readable treatise on the Jews and their enormous impact on history and civilization, Cahill recreates the philosophical and religious matrix of the ancient world and shows how the ancient Jews burst upon the stage with a completely new view. He explains the historical importance of key Biblical figures... Read more >
How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 17, 1999
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48249-3 (0-385-48249-3)
In his concise, readable treatise on the Jews and their enormous impact on history and civilization, Cahill recreates the philosophical and religious matrix of the ancient world and shows how the ancient Jews burst upon the stage with a completely new view. He explains the historical importance of key Biblical figures... Read more >
