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Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Paperback - $29.95
In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of this generation with the romance and mystery of lost worlds.
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Hardcover - $47.95
"I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has ...
Heroes of History : A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
Will Durant
Hardcover - $43.95
In the tradition of his bestselling books "The Story of Civilization" and "The Lessons of History, " Pulitzer-prize winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, in a book published 20 years ...
A Culture of Improvement : Technology and the Western Millennium
Robert Friedel
Hardcover - $62.95
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit ...
The Way of the World : From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
David Fromkin
Paperback - $23.95
"Ambitious.... The truth is that Fromkin's outline is persuasively thought out and presented."--"The Washington Post Book World
As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trouble us as much as those that concern our futu ...