The Structure of World History

The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to so...

The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to so...

This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200, 000 years.

This newly updated and improved edition of Bonnie G. Smith's classic textbook provides the most authoritative history available of Europe in a glob...

Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes...

Reducere. Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which governs it and binds it togethe...

Reducere. Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccalett...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Reducere. Subtitle: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis is foundational reading for the Christian, concerned as it is w...

Reducere. Traces of Litchfield County's past are hidden in plain sight. Vestiges of long-abandoned railroad tracks crisscross the county while a decaying and...

Reducere. Considered to be one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2019, Machu Picchu is a man-made structure situated in the Andes Mountains in Peru. O...

Reducere. The largest Masonic temple in the world, Detroit's Masonic temple is a monumental structure with a rich and colorful history, befitting one of the ...

Reducere. The Roman Empire may have fallen thousands of years ago, but the lessons and the legacy left behind lives on to this dayFrom a tiny settlement on t...

Reducere. The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a forc...

Reducere. During his career as an actor, William Gillette portrayed world-renowned character Sherlock Holmes in more than 1, 300 performances. His career as ...

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of ...

Reducere. For the NEW 2020 Exam AP(R) World History: Modern Crash Course(R)A Higher Score in Less Time REA's Crash Course(R) is the top choice for AP(R) stud...

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device,...

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our...

The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City's most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the ...

Reducere. Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and explor...

Offers an analysis of the origins of the Chinese communist revolution in the countryside. This book provides a local perspective on the rise of a r...

Reducere. Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of Ancient EgyptAncient Egypt is one of the most fascinating and sophisticated civilizations in the known history. ...

Reducere. This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower cl...

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

Reducere. How military technology has transformed the world The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. ...

Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and wher...

Reducere. Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided a...

Reducere. Where The West Lives Golden's motto sums up the colorful history of the small town set at the entrance to the storied gold fields of Colorado. The ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary BeardPraise for the previous edition: "Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building i...

The Rose Bowl is best known for playing host to the granddaddy of them all the much anticipated major college football game held every January 1. I...

Reducere. For more than half a century, the Franklin Castle's dark facade has lured curiosity seekers from around the world. Behind its iron gates, this Vict...

Reducere. Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its...

Reducere. The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, ...

Reducere. When we think of Ancient Egypt we think of the great pyramids, the Sphinx, Egyptian gods and the great myths...but what influenced this great civil...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter Jones provides a line-by-line commentary on Homer's Odyssey that explains the factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric...

Reducere. Hurtling through the atmosphere, in a blaze of light and reverberating percussions, the arrival of a meteorite on Earth is a magical, rare, and pre...

Reducere. For more than half a century, the Franklin Castle's dark facade has lured curiosity seekers from around the world. Behind its iron gates, this Vict...

DescriptionThe Laws of the Sun is a book on the Truth taught by Master Ryuho Okawa of Happy Science that is put together in the most systematic way...

Contributor(s): Author: William ShakespeareEditor: James C. BulmanEditor: Ann ThompsonMore troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the pl...

DescriptionIn our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient--and this phenomenon is not ...

Reducere. Late Capitalism is the first major synthesis to have been produced by the contemporary revival of Marxist economics. It represents, in fact, the on...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Ming Dynasty, China, then keep reading..China is one of the longest settled areas of the...

By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Luk s Fasora and Jiř Hanus take a diachronic approach to ...

The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the P...

Reducere. On a 140-acre campus on the high plains south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) stands as a world leader in con...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European ...

Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David Grant NobleStartling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the "Chaco Phenomenon" since the publicati...

Reducere. Reveals the Mayan calendar to be a spiritual device that describes the evolution of human consciousness from ancient times into the future - Shows ...

Reducere. A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-ski...

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reali...

Reducere. DescriptionSeeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher, poet, and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-...

DescriptionCarnivorous plants are a unique botanical group, possessing modified leaves to trap, kill, and consume small creatures. As a result they...

Reducere. The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, t...

Reducere. Fort Snelling, a foundational place in the story of Minnesota, was built 200 years ago at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, a...

Reducere. Unlike many formal professions, foundation grantmaking is a callingwith no training programs and little definitive literature on thelatest and best...

Reducere. When Maybell Brumby, frisky, wealthy, and recently widowed, quits Baltimore and arrives in London, she finds that her old school chum, Bessie Walli...

Reducere. The American Legion was founded in 1919, shortly after the harrowing conflict of World War I drew to a close; this book describes the founding, and...

DescriptionIn a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the produ...

Reducere. DescriptionBorn from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy ye...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Hinduism is one of the world's great religions, dominating the...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Hinduism is one of the world's great religions, dominating the...

Reducere. Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier--a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age...

DescriptionWhat are the causes of war? How might the world be made more peaceful? In this landmark work of international relations theory, first pu...

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theo...

Reducere. In the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated ...

This book details what is believed to be the first traverse of the Fiordland National Park wilderness area, New Zealand, in 1973/74. The author, Fr...

Reducere. Description" Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." -- Alice Wal...