Civilization & Culture

A Guide To Understanding The Indian Act And Its Impact On Generations Of Indigenous Peoples, As Well As An Examination Of How Indigenous Peoples Can Return ...

The Story Of The Gene Begins In Earnest In An Obscure Augustinian Abbey In Moravia In 1856 Where Gregor Mendel, A Monk Working With Pea Plants, Stumbles On ...

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

An examination of problems and issues that affected the development of the Western world through the late 1940's. BibliogsCategories: History WorldCivilizat...

Riane Eisler Shows Us How History Has Consistently Promoted The Link Between Sex And Violence—and How We Can Sever This Link And Move To A Politics Of Par...

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...

The Death Of Madonna -- A Magical Place -- The Arrogance And The Nerve! -- Jam Hot -- Sick And Peverted -- How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Madonn...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

a History So Funny, So True, So Scary, It's Bound To Be Called A Conspiracy. meticulous In Its Research, Forensic In Its Reasoning, Robust In Its Argume...

A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected ...

The story of the global search for moral truthsIn this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has deve...

The Perfect St. Patrick's Day Gift, And A Book In The Best Tradition Of Popular History -- The Untold Story Of Ireland's Role In Maintaining Western Culture...

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries...

One Hundred Thousand Years Ago, At Least Six Human Species Inhabited The Earth. Today There Is Just One. Us. Homo Sapiens. How Did Our Species Succeed In Th...

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...

In Racing Toward Armageddon, Michael Baigent, the New York Times bestselling author of The Jesus Papers and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, exposes the conspiracy o...

national Bestseller“a Triumph Of Popularization: Extraordinarily Knowledgeable, Informal In Tone, Amusing, Wide-ranging, Smartly Paced.” —the New York Time...

Appian ; Translated With An Introduction By John Carter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xxxiv-xxxvi) And Index.Categories: Travel Europe Netherland...

From Architecture To Electricity, From Food Preservation To Epidemics, From The Telephone To The Eiffel Tower, From Crinolines To Toilets - And The Brillila...

An Exhilarating History Of Humankind, Chronicling Thousands Of Years Of Trial And Error--but Mostly Error--in The Rise Of Civilization Modern Humans Have Co...

who Formed The First Modern Nation?who Created The First Literate Society?who Invented Our Modern Ideas Of Democracy And Free Market Capitalism?the Scots....

An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed wi...

Carmichael's Dog -- The Christimas Tree. David Adams Richards.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

From the Stone Age to the Space Age—an entertaining journey through our own story that asks not just how we got here, but also, where are we going? In thi...

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesFor almost two decades, Yale student...

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. Publishers Weekly In Boorstin's 1983 bestseller The Discover...

Change your life using Wayne W. Dyer's astonishing Nine Spiritual Principles: Are the decisions and actions in your life controlled by your ego? Do you ha...

A bestseller in its field, A History of Western Society examines the lives of both historical figures and ordinary people, using an engaging, lively writing...

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing framew...

For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia), Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome. The Ancient World is a comprehensive, multi-perspec...

Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chron...

“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 bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet.How did an obscure...

Is Civilization Teetering On The Edge Of A Cliff? Or Are We Just Climbing Higher Than Ever? Most People Who Read The News Would Tell You That 2017 Is One Of...

Why Did Eurasians Conquer, Displace, Or Decimate Native Americans, Australians, And Africans, Instead Of The Reverse? In This Groundbreaking Book, Evolution...

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citi...

These two volumes of Neibuhr's wartime theology illuminate the horrific depths of the twentieth century by faith. Grounded in an unshakable biblical confide...

Product Description New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment med...

'A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier’s eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity.'-Barry Strauss...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpieceThe Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the perv...

All About Being Canadian, Language, Culture, Art And Much More. Introduction: How To Find Canada On A Map -- Canada: A Rich Tapestry (who To Hate And Why): ...

the American Plague Delves Into America's Not-so-distant Past To Recount One Of The Greatest Epidemics Of Our Time. It Tells The Story Of The Yellow Fever ...

“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine ““In deligh...

Product Description *A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*\From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly ...

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat of...

Overview: Most Of Us Take For Granted The Features Of Our Modern Society, From Air Travel And Telecommunications To Literacy And Obesity. Yet For Nearly All...

Walk with the indigenous people who settled North America —and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the ...

The Cradle Of Civilization Rocked First In India -- Aum And Uma: The Foundational Deities Of Pagan And Non-pagan Religions -- Aryan Orthodoxies And Sind -- ...