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The Art of Seduction

von Robert Greene

This bold, instructive guide to power of attraction by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and Mastery can make anyone a master of this devastating and timeless art

This...

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

von Andrew Rimas & Evan D.G. Fraser

We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor.

Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century...

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

von Jared Diamond

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none...

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves

von Dan Ariely

The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality returns with thought-provoking work to challenge our preconceptions about dishonesty and urge us to take an honest...

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

von Toby Wilkinson

In this landmark work, one of the world’s most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption into the Roman Empire—three...

Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

von Cottrell Browne

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major...

Andes

von Michael Jacobs

For centuries, the Andes have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder. The groundbreaking scientist Alexander von Humboldt claimed that “everything here is grander and more majestic than...

Untold Histories of the Middle East

von Amy Singer & Christoph

This book examines the historiography of the Middle East and the consequent silences or omissions. It provides a collection of important histories from the modern era, particularly relating to the break-up of...

Water Resources and Development

von Clive Agnew & Philip Woodhouse

Water Resources and Development explores water management strategies through scientific, social and political perspectives, and uses case studies to exemplify four key development challenges: economic growth,...

Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present

von Russell Jacoby

THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities—in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from...

Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements

von James DeFronzo

  The only single-volume history that analyzes the most significant revolutions of the past century, now updated with new material on Islamic revolutionary movements and Latin American democratic revolutions...

River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon

von Buddy Levy

From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrilling account of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. With cinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail, here is...

Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars

von Col. Matthew Moten

An emperor bows abjectly before his conquerors on the deck of a battleship. As smoke yet rises from a bloody battlefield, a dejected general proffers his sword to his victorious opponent. Frock-coated ministers...

The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization

von Michael Balter

Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists...

Helluva Town: The Story of New York City During World War II

von Richard Goldstein

In the stirring signature number from the 1944 Broadway musical On the Town, three sailors on a 24-hour search for love in wartime Manhattan sing, "New York, New York, a helluva town."

The Navy boys’ race...

David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition

von Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman

The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman,...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry

von Ph.D., S. Brent Morris

Mysteries revealed ... truths uncovered ... and myths dispelled.

What is the truth about the Masons suggested in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code? Can Freemasonry really be dated back as far as Babylon? Did they...

Earth: An Intimate History

von Richard Fortey

In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.

Beginning with...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates

von Gail Selinger

A view of pirate life-from the crow's nest

Sustainability & Historic Preservation: Toward a Holistic View

von Richard Longstreth, Shary Page Berg & Rebecca Howell Crew

Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres. To date, discussions of the relationship between...