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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments "I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments A richly original look at the origins of money and how it makes the world go 'round Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on... (read more) Your price: $16.00 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 $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Society of the Spectacle 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) Your price: $8.00 New - Mass Market
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun Review "Jacques Barzun, one of the most erudite and eloquent of minds, in his new book spans the cultural history of the Western world from the Renaissance and the Reformation till now. It is a masterpiece for the ages." (-- Martin Meyerson, President... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coal : Human History (03 Edition) by Barbara Freese Staff Pick Coal generates over half of the electricity we consume yet we know little about this charred material save a few mining songs and horror stories about canaries and black lungs. In this sumptuous book we follow the black rock through time and discover its... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world. <BR>Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - 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 $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future by Thomas Berry Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-234) and index.... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments A real-life thriller from acclaimed historian and author of The Pirate Hunter, Richard Zacks — the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees. In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy Publisher Comments The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic.Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on whos doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Schaum's Outline of Modern European History (McGraw-Hill's Core Books) by Birdsall S Viault Publisher Comments Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Tough Test Questions? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-452) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (Vintage) 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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wars of National Liberation (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Daniel Moran Publisher Comments Although the twentieth century is now best remembered for two world wars, in the future it may be at least equally well-known for its profusion of little wars against great opponents. The trend began long before mujahideen took up arms against the Soviet... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples by Mark Cocker Publisher Comments The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this day. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is an essential... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sterling: the History of a Currency by Nicholas Mayhew Publisher Comments "Like an underground stream which rarely comes to the surface but which nevertheless irrigates the countryside through which it flows, sterling runs through British history, from the Conquest up to the present day."<P>With this passage, Nicholas... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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