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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C Mann Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor Publisher Comments From the renowned director of the British Museum, a kaleidoscopic history of humanity told through things we have made. When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music? When were cows domesticated and why do we feed their milk to our children... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $31.00 Used - Hardcover
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 by Stephen Bown Publisher Comments Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas Publisher Comments "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Baroque Personae (95 Edition) by Rosario (ed.) Villari Publisher Comments The Baroque, which stretched from the end of the sixteenth to the second half of the seventeenth century, is one of the most enigmatic eras in history. In this book, thirteen distinguished scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz Synopsis The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Platos phrase, has always defied control. However, thats not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon:... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Proud Tower: A Protrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman Publisher Comments "The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Staff Pick Like Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, and other enjoyable histories that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live by Ben Thompson Publisher Comments An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle. Throughout history — from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era — there have been larger... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia Publisher Comments Situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millenia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cartoon History of the Universe #1-7: Cartoon History of the Universe 1 by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments An entertaining and informative illustrated guide that makes world history accessible, appealing, and funny.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester Staff Pick This biography of the Atlantic Ocean encompasses myth and geology, trade and war and discovery — proving once again that Winchester knows how to dig deep and sift out the story. An engrossing tale from a master storyteller.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits by Mental Floss Publisher Comments Pop quiz! Who said what about history? History is . . . (a) more or less bunk. (b) a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken. (c) as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis. Match your answers: (1) Stephen Daedalus of James Joyce'... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance-and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible. The rise to global predominance of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographies and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The West: Encounters & Transformations, Combined Volume by Brian Levack Publisher Comments ... (read more) List Price $122.00 Your price: $40.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Second Edition: One Volume Hardcover, Complete by Robert Tignor Publisher Comments '\'\\\'In this second edition, the book\\\\\\\'s non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history \\\\\\\"turning point\\\\\\\" stories from the modern period to include ten more \\\\\\\"turning point... (read more) List Price $127.50 Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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