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Europe : a History - a Glorious Chronicle of Europe, From Kings To Peasants, From the Urals To the Faroes (96 Edition)
by Norman Davies  Publisher Comments "Europe is a magisterial work, sweeping in its analysis, illuminating in its insights and erudite in its scholarship." "Europe brims with learning, crackles with common sense, coruscates with wit and abounds in good judgement." "A master of broad...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond 
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, an illuminating guide to the genetic history of the British Isles. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons...
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I Wish I'd Been Therea(r), Book Two: European History
by Byron Hollinshead Publisher Comments What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed—and why?This is the question that the editors posed to twenty superb historians who wrote a personal essay in response. The result is this engrossing book, a...
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The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Volume 3
by Fernand Braudel Synopsis The concluding volume of the trilogy charts the growth of the world economy from the 15th to the 18th century concentrating on the human activity that underlies the business of life....
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past
by David Kidder Publisher Comments In the same stylish gift format of the best-selling series opener, this new Intellectual Devotional offers daily digests of wisdom from American history--365 brief lessons to stimulate the mind every day of the year Modeled...
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Passion of the Western Mind (91 Edition)
by Richard Tarnas Synopsis " 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...
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The discovery of Dura-Europos
by Clark Hopkins Publisher Comments From the third century A.D. until the 1920s, the ancient city of Dura, which the Greeks called Europos, lay covered by the sands of time. Today, hardly a book that touches on the ancient Eastern Mediterranean or on the development of art and religion in...
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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....
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History of the Persian Empire (59 Edition)
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...
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History of Civilizations (93 Edition)
by Fernand Braudel Synopsis Written in 1962 as the basis for a history course, this book is a history of the civilizations of the modern world (from the 8th century on), written in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than "event-based"....
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Persian Expedition (49 Edition)
by Xenophon Synopsis An account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - "The Ten Thousand" - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. The text remains one of the finest we have of the Greeks confronting a "barbarian" world....
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Great Upheaval (07 Edition)
by Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of...
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How the Scots Invented Modern World (01 Edition)
by Arthur Herman
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-452) and index....
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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...
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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...
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Eastern Origins of Western Civilization (04 Edition)
by John M. Hobson Publisher Comments John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West. It is often assumed that since Ancient Greek times Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by-stander in the story...
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century England (UK Edition)
by Keith Thomas Synopsis This analysis of popular belief in England begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the change in the intellectual atmosphere around 1700....
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Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
by Ian Kershaw Publisher Comments In a mere nineteen months, from May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that decided the course and outcome of World War II, cost the lives of millions, and profoundly shaped the course of...
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