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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything? In Uncontrolle...

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for grant...

New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (“A masterpiece of science writing.” —Washington Post) and “one o...

An Update Of The Popular Overview, A History Of Science In Society Traces The Development Of Scientific Thought Throughout The Ages. Beginning With The Phil...

A Comprehensive, Rollicking, And Timely History Of The Papacy. St. Peter -- Defenders Of The City (c. 100-536) -- Vigilius (537-555) -- Gregory The Great (5...

The World Is Designed To Provide Readers Of Any Age And Experience With The Essential Background Needed To Answer Important Critical Questions About The Wor...

The Most Profound Characteristic Of Western Europe In The Middle Ages Was Its Cultural And Religious Unity, A Unity Secured By A Common Alignment With The P...

One of America's most respected Buddhist teachers distills a lifetime of practice and teaching in this groundbreaking exploration of the new Buddhist tradit...

This world history text is organized into fewer, longer chapters that discuss all world civilizations in a specified time period. Chapters are broken into s...

"More than a horrifying tale... also a penetrating examination of causes."-Denis Wood, author,The Power of MapsSeventy-one years before the Titanic, a ship ...

As New Groundbreaking Research Suggests That Climate Change Played A Major Role In The Most Extreme Catastrophes In The Planet's History, Award-winning Scie...

If offered the chance—by cloak, spell, or superpower—to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeuri...

“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.” —Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

in This Angry, Funny, Smart, Contentious Book, Jonah Goldberg Offers A Startling New Perspective On The Theories And Practices That Define Fascist Politic...

The League of Nations - pre-cursor to the United Nations - was founded in 1919 as a response to the First World War to ensure collective security and preven...

Profiles Andrew Dexter, Jr., A Late-eighteenth-century Financial Pioneer-turned-confidence Man, Describing How He Took Advantage Of Suspicions About Paper M...

Collects Writings From Several Leading Theoretical Physicists And Cosmologists That Offer An Overview Of Our Scientific Understanding Of The Universe As It ...

PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Ace the new Digital AP World History: Modern Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide--including 6 pract...

Homo sapiens have remained the same species, largely unchanged in genetic makeup and anatomy since the Cro-Magnon era. By contrast, the cultural, social, a...

Explores Humanity's Attempts To Comprehend The Divine By Giving It Human Traits And Emotions, And Calls For A More Expansive Understanding Of God To Develop...

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...

"They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, ho...

updated And With A New Afterword national Book Award Finalist a time, newsweek, washington Post, chicago Tribune, And new York Times Book Review Best Book ...

The PETERSON FIRST GUIDE TO FISHES features 220 common and conspicuous fishes of North America, with full-color illustrations and a clear, precise descrip...

On 8 March 1421 The Largest Fleet The World Had Ever Seen Sailed From Its Base In China. The Ships, Huge Junks Nearly Five Hundred Feet Long And Built From ...

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for i...

What secrets connect Egypt‘s Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Mar...

Today Technology Has Created A World Of Dazzling Progress, Growing Disparities Of Wealth And Poverty, And Looming Threats To The Environment. This Book Offe...

SOURCES OF GLOBAL HISTORY SINCE 1900 is a primary source reader designed to supplement modern world history courses. It contains both textual and visual sou...

Inverting The Pyramid Is A Pioneering Soccer Book That Chronicles The Evolution Of Soccer Tactics And The Lives Of The Itinerant Coaching Geniuses Who Have ...

A Concise Edition with clear connections, comparisons, and sources in every chapter. The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, World...

The twentieth century was the most brutal in human history, featuring a litany of shameful events that includes the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Stalinist era,...

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that ...

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...

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

A popular history of the decade after Waterloo finds in it the seeds of the modern world, such as the establishment of constitutional democracy, internation...

'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...

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