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The Story of Civilization, Volume I: A history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in Ind...

Covers the economy, politics, law, science, philosophy, and the art of the Christians, Moslems, and the Jews during medieval times

A history of European civilizations in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton and Spinoza: 16...

The Story of Civilization, Volume VII: A history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembr...

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on t...

The Story of Civilization, Volume VI: A history of European civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300-1564. This is the sixth vo...

A history of civilization in Italy from the Birth of Petrarch to the Death of Titian - 1304 to 1576.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality...

“Wonderful....Jared Diamond conducts his fascinating study of our behavior and origins with a naturalist’s eye and a philosophe...

It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same...

Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame.

At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon o...

A New Edition of the Phenomenal Number 1 Bestseller

"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way,...

‘The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India...

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connectio...

Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author Wi...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s explor...

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting informati...

“[A] raucous, offensive, and sometimes amusing CliffsNotes compilation of wars both well-known and ignored.” —Utne Reader

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Back in the 60s we were all sure there would be flying cars in our future. Were the futurists and SF writers of the day just wr...

**The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions abo...