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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond W. W. Norton W. W. Norton
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological ...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond Penguin (Non-Classics) Penguin (Non-Classics)
Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel . While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some...
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Editors Of Mental Floss Collins Collins
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's Ulysses (2) Henry Ford...
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Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky Penguin (Non-Classics) Penguin (Non-Classics)
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...
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Twelfth Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles)
Zecharia Sitchin Harper Harper
Zecharia Sitchen's The 12th Planet is the starting point on a quest that spans six books and 20 years worth of ancient aliens, genetic manipulation, and scrutiny of linguistic minutiae. If we trust Sitchen's translation abilities, we must be...
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The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past
David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim Modern Times Modern Times
Modeled after those bedside books of prayer and contemplation that millions turn to for daily spiritual guidance and growth, the national bestseller The Intellectual Devotional —offering secular wisdom and cerebral nourishment—drew a...
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Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller St. Martin's Griffin St. Martin's Griffin
R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the...
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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Buddy Levy Bantam Bantam
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. “I and my companions suffer from a...
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The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
Alice Wexler Yale University Press Yale University Press
A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as “the witchcraft disease” When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...
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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume 1: To 1789
Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, James Jacob, Margaret Jacob, Theodore Von Laue Wadsworth Publishing Wadsworth Publishing
This survey text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Known for its accessible writing style, Western Civilization appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful...
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