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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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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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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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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The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities
Gregg Braden, Peter Russell, Daniel Pinchbeck, Geoff Stray, John Major Jenkins Sounds True Sounds True
What Will Happen in 2012? Will there be an age of awakening, a new step in human evolution, or even an end to the world we know? For years, archaeologists have known the Mayan calendar predicts this date as the end of an era on Earth. Today, more...
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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor, Revised Edition (Story ... the World: History for the Classical Child)
Susan Wise Bauer Peace Hill Press Peace Hill Press
What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emperor of Rome? Told in a straightforward,...
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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Herodotus Pantheon Pantheon
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides , a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written. Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century...
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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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Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)
Ryszard Kapuscinski Vintage Vintage
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
Anonymous Penguin Classics Penguin Classics
This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh , the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third mi llennium B.C. One of the best and most important pieces of epic poetry from human...
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