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The Undivided Past
Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Written by David Cannadine
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Written by David Cannadine
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages.
Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity, difference, and...
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The Undivided Past
Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Written by David Cannadine
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Written by David Cannadine
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages.
Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity, difference, and...
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science, religion, money... Read more >
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science, religion, money... Read more >
The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Written by Toby Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $20.00
“Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”—Los Angeles Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly
In this landmark volume, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the... Read more >
Written by Toby Wilkinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $20.00
“Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”—Los Angeles Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly
In this landmark volume, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the... Read more >
Spartan Warrior 735-331 BC
Written by Duncan Campbell
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best trained, organized, most feared and lethal warriors of the ancient world. This small state, known to the Ancient Greeks as Lakedaimon... Read more >
Written by Duncan Campbell
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best trained, organized, most feared and lethal warriors of the ancient world. This small state, known to the Ancient Greeks as Lakedaimon... Read more >
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The Greek Search for Wisdom
Written by Michael K. Kellogg
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy... Read more >
Written by Michael K. Kellogg
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy... Read more >
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The Greek Search for Wisdom
Written by Michael K. Kellogg
Format: Hardcover, 341 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $28.00
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy... Read more >
Written by Michael K. Kellogg
Format: Hardcover, 341 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $28.00
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks invented tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, history, philosophy... Read more >
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Immortality
The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
Written by Stephen Cave
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $25.00
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives... Read more >
The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
Written by Stephen Cave
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $25.00
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Immortality
The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
Written by Stephen Cave
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $12.99
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives... Read more >
The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
Written by Stephen Cave
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $12.99
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives... Read more >
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Imagining Atlantis
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau--to speculate on... Read more >
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $9.99
Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau--to speculate on... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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At Home
A Short History of Private Life
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
A Short History of Private Life
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern...
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The Great Work
Our Way into the Future
Written by Thomas Berry
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling... Read more >
Our Way into the Future
Written by Thomas Berry
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling... Read more >
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The March of Folly
From Troy to Vietnam
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $12.99
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that... Read more >
From Troy to Vietnam
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $12.99
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that... Read more >
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Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $10.99
With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and... Read more >
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $10.99
With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and... Read more >
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Practicing History
Selected Essays
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $9.99
From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime... Read more >
Selected Essays
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $9.99
From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime... Read more >
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Written by Toby Wilkinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $15.99
In this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.
Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only... Read more >
Written by Toby Wilkinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $15.99
In this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.
Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
Written by Toby Wilkinson
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $35.00
In this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.
Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only... Read more >
Written by Toby Wilkinson
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $35.00
In this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three thousand years of wild drama, bold spectacle, and unforgettable characters.
Award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson captures not only... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Medieval World
An Illustrated Atlas
Written by John M. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $40.00
Sumptuously illustrating the vivid parade of a thousand years of history, this comprehensive historical atlas concentrates on the Mediterranean world but also shows what happened across the globe between A.D. 400 and 1500 —from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery. Every page glistens with period works of art... Read more >
An Illustrated Atlas
Written by John M. Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $40.00
Sumptuously illustrating the vivid parade of a thousand years of history, this comprehensive historical atlas concentrates on the Mediterranean world but also shows what happened across the globe between A.D. 400 and 1500 —from the fall of Rome to the age of discovery. Every page glistens with period works of art... Read more >
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Cleopatra
The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
Edited by Zahi Hawass
Contribution by Franck Goddio
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $28.00
Beautiful, mysterious, and tragic, Cleopatra remains one of the most mesmerizing women of all time—and here is her story, based on the latest archaeological research. Secrets unfold in the official companion book to the new exhibition cosponsored by National Geographic, opening in Philadelphia in May 2010 and touring the United States... Read more >
The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt
Edited by Zahi Hawass
Contribution by Franck Goddio
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $28.00
Beautiful, mysterious, and tragic, Cleopatra remains one of the most mesmerizing women of all time—and here is her story, based on the latest archaeological research. Secrets unfold in the official companion book to the new exhibition cosponsored by National Geographic, opening in Philadelphia in May 2010 and touring the United States... Read more >
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What the Great Ate
A Curious History of Food and Fame
Written by Matthew Jacob and Mark Jacob
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $14.00
What was eating them? And vice versa.
In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food
• As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase... Read more >
A Curious History of Food and Fame
Written by Matthew Jacob and Mark Jacob
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $14.00
What was eating them? And vice versa.
In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food
• As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase... Read more >
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What the Great Ate
A Curious History of Food and Fame
Written by Matthew Jacob and Mark Jacob
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $9.99
What was eating them? And vice versa.
In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food
• As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase... Read more >
A Curious History of Food and Fame
Written by Matthew Jacob and Mark Jacob
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $9.99
What was eating them? And vice versa.
In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figures throughout history. Here is food
• As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Lost to the West
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Written by Lars Brownworth
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire... Read more >
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Written by Lars Brownworth
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire... Read more >
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Lost to the West
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Written by Lars Brownworth
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $9.99
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire... Read more >
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Written by Lars Brownworth
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $9.99
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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