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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Society of Spectacle (83 Edition) by Guy Debord Publisher Comments The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - 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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What Life Was Like in Europe's Golden Age: Northern Europe, Ad 1500-1675 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein Publisher Comments The Ascent of Humanity is a radical exploration of the history and future of civilization from a unique perspective: the human sense of self. Eisenstein traces all of the converging crises of our age to a common source, which he calls Separation. It is... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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Hinges of History #3: Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet. How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Simon Winchester makes the Atlantic come vividly alive.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations (4TH 13 Edition) by Conrad Schirokauer Publisher Comments This compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. The author team combines strong research with extensive classroom... (read more) List Price $145.95 Your price: $132.80 New - Trade Paper
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed ((Rev)11 Edition) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Social Dimension of Western Civilization , Volume 1 (5TH 03 Edition) by Richard M. Golden Publisher Comments Combining the latest scholarship with classic pieces, The Social Dimension of Western Civilization's48 secondary-source readings hook students with the fascinating and often surprising details of how everyday Western people worked, ate, played... (read more) List Price $63.90 Your price: $45.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization by Stephen Cave Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray Publisher Comments A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun’ s From Dawn to Decadence. “ At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Publisher Comments From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Work : Our Way Into the Future (99 Edition) by Thomas Berry Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-234) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Persian Empire by Arthur T Olmstead Publisher Comments Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments "Refreshingly broad-brush in its approach...this history provides the big picture."—The Christian Science Monitor. Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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