by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements. After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Roger Crowley Publisher Comments A complete and compelling account of the fall of Constantinople, the siege that gave rise to today's jihad. When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, a remarkable era in world history ended. Constantinople, the "city of the world's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Nicholson Baker
Publisher Comments Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh... (read more) Your Price $30.00 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Robert Ritchie Publisher Comments The Renaissance first bloomed in northern Italy in the 14th century, where the rediscovery of the cultural heritage left by ancient Rome and Greece sparked an intellectual revolution centered on humanism. Lasting roughly 300 years, the Renaissance was... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your Price $12.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Robin Lane Fox Synopsis Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience.... (read more) Your Price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The Middle... (read more) Your Price $20.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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Saturday May 17, 2008
by E J Hobsbawm Synopsis A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism"; the triumph of a society which... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Matt K Matsuda Publisher Comments A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early... (read more) Your Price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Vicki Leon Synopsis The author of "Uppity Women of Ancient Times" introduces some of history's most outrageous women from Renaissance times. Illustrations.... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jacques Revel Synopsis Focusing on the changing field of historiography, this text sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies.... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Terry Burrows Publisher Comments The twentieth century is unique in human history. The last hundred years have been captured not just in words, as in previous centuries, but also in visual detail with photographs, film and video. The greatest images of this era are combined here with... (read more) Your Price $3.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments Vicki Leon, the popular author of the "Uppity Women" series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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