Social History

Behind Most Major Political Stories There Is An Agenda: To Destroy An Idea Or The People Advancing It. Maybe You Watched Someone On The News Report That Don...

This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens as it tours the most mag...

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the es...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christ...

A basic introduction and must-read for aspiring nurses, written by one of the founders of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.Categories: Medical BooksHist...

What If We Examined A Landscape On Its Own Terms, Freed From Expectations Or Assumptions? The River Is A Gorgeous And Moving Meditation That Uses Fiction, N...

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well...

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in W...

`The overall conception of the volume is absolutely splendid, and the editors skilfully place the material in the context of disciplinary and post-discipli...

Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus relig...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic games―by a New York Times best-selling sportswriter. A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Ki...

New York Times Bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Bestselling Author Of The Warmth Of Other Suns Examines The Unspoken Caste ...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wildernes...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in techno...

Science As A Vocation -- Politics As A Vocation. Max Weber ; Edited And With An Introduction By David Owen And Tracy B. Strong ; Translation By Rodney Livin...

Edited, With An Introd. By L. M. Grayson And Michael Bliss. English Or French. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: History Historical Study &...

In this book the 2,000-year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way ...

“I am an assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author o...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a full-color book celebrating the world's most breathtaking, exciting, and astonishing attraction...

one Of The Vital Challenges Facing Thoughtful People Today Is How To Read The Bible Faithfully Without Abandoning Our Sense Of Truth And History. reading T...

Are scrolls containing the secret teachings of Jesus buried in Scotland?The discovery that the most important incantation of Freemasonry is spoken in ancien...

Jack Holland. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-289) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Women's StudiesFeminist Theory

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Farsighted, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illust...

For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a ...

The Idea Of Childhood -- Ages Of Life -- Discovery Of Childhood -- Children's Dress -- Modest Contribution To The History Of Games And Pastimes -- From Immo...

Jared Diamond.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences AnthropologyCultural

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchant...

For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an as...