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'A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - man's journey from the earliest times to the modern day. Highly recomme...

Presents stories of many of the landmark events and people of the 20th centuryCategories: History WorldGeneral

"O, Almighty God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee!"-wrote astronomer Johannes Kepler, 1619. Scientific Revolution astronomers Copernicus, Galileo, Bra...

Stephen Greenblatt Explores The Enduring Story Of Humanity's First Parents. Tracking The Tale Into The Deep Past, Greenblatt Uncovers The Tremendous Theolog...

In This Book Bill Bryson Explores The Most Intriguing And Consequential Questions That Science Seeks To Answer And Attempts To Understand Everything That Ha...

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Though their bodies lie cold and dormant, the grave cannot contain the influence these seven men have had on today's world. They continue to rule because th...

A compelling subject, war is common to almost all known societies and almost all periods of history. The Cambridge History of Warfare is a comprehensive acc...

No other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends and myths as Titanic. Unsinkable ...

This sourcebook contains an alternate Working with Evidence and Historians' Voices feature for each chapter. Available in print or as part of your digital p...

The Rise And Fall Of Peace On Earth Examines That Singularly Peaceful Quarter Century. Its Initial Three Chapters Describe How And Why Peace Came To Be Esta...

Written by a diverse group of scholars who bring their regional expertise together, this best-selling text offers a balanced treatment of global events an...

Maps have been around in some form or other since humans first understood the need to record their physical space, and for the past hundred years, the Natio...

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The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussei...

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science ...

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls....

By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in...

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill chal...

The 20th Century witnessed change unparalleled in history : from wars and conflicts, political upheavals, and social developments, to advances in medicine,...

The Author Recounts How His Exposure To The Criminal Underclass While Serving Time In A State-run Confinement Center Opened His Eyes To The Ways In Which Th...

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for gi...

A combination of the complete work and key foundational documents, Communist Manifesto explores the the evolution of and influences on Marxist theory over t...

There is a religious institution whose members are the most devout and serious of any faith on earth. Those who are a part of this institution unquestionabl...