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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

Arthashastra is one of the oldest books with immense historical significance written by Kautilya, or Arya Chanakya, as he was popularly known. This book is one of the most effective books ever written on the art of statecraft and the science of everyday living....

Over 5,000 years, India has been home to a rich tapestry of peoples and cultures. Two of the world's great religions - Hinduism and Buddhism - have their origins in South Asia....

Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural poverty in India. Twenty years after publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of reportage....

Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia....

When Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had already become the most admired person in the US and one of the most unlikely celebrities to capture the world’s imagination....

From the earliest civilizations to the 21st century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series....

January 1991. IRAQ. Eight members of the SAS regiment embark upon a top secret mission to infiltrate deep behind enemy lines....

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....

In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages....

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences.

In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....

Over two millennia after its compilation, the Politics still offers much to consider with regards to political science....

This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the 108 Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism....

The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books....

Although it was originally published in 1892, Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet remains unquestionably one of the most respected and admired surveys of the pre-Socratics. It is an illuminating springboard into classical Greek philosophy....

Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation....

The tigers of Chowghad were a man-eating Bengal tigress and her sub-adult cub, which for over a five-year period killed a reported 64 people in eastern Kumaon....

While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place....

In this ambitious audiobook, best-selling author Sanjeev Sanyal chronicles the grand sweep of history from East Africa to Australia, conjuring the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar, medieval Arab empires, and Chinese "treasure fleets" in rich, vivid detail....

O Jerusalem! is the epic drama of 1948, when Arabs and Jews fought for control of the city of Jerusalem...

Du Big Bang à nos jours, notre Terre n’a cessé de se transformer sous les effets des mouvements tectoniques, des variations climatiques, de l’activité du Soleil ou encore des éruptions volcaniques. Comment ces changements ont-ils affecté l’histoire humaine ? Comment notre espèce s’est-elle adaptée à un environnement profondément modifié par les glaciations ou les périodes de réchauffement ? Pour répondre à ces interrogations, Peter Frankopan s’est engagé dans une entreprise majeure et inédite.

Tras los Grandes mitos y leyendas de la Historia, Carlos Taranilla de la Varga nos vuelve a sorprender con esta obra donde se recogen los grandes enigmas y misterios de la Historia que desde tiempos ancestrales, hasta la época contemporánea, han despertado el interés en nuestro imaginario colectivo.

After the extinction of the dodo and Carolina parakeet and the collapse of the American bison population, naturalists expected many more vulnerable species to die out with spread of industrialization. This triggered a race to collect rare species of animals expected soon to be lost forever. Established in 1893, Chicago's Field Museum aimed to become a global center of study. Zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot persuaded museum patrons to fund an immediate expedition to British Somaliland (contemporary Somalia). There, his team hunted and killed hundreds of animals for the growing collection.

Per gli inglesi è il Blitz, o addirittura "la battaglia" per antonomasia: il lungo scontro che nell'estate del 1940 le forze aeree tedesche e inglesi ingaggiarono per il controllo dei cieli doveva essere nei piani di Hitler la premessa all'invasione della Gran Bretagna. Al termine di mesi di disastrosi bombardamenti sulle città inglesi e di violenti duelli tra Raf e Luftwaffe, la vittoria inglese significò non solo la rinuncia all'invasione e la prima sonora sconfitta della macchina bellica tedesca, ma una svolta capace di imprimere un corso sostanzialmente diverso alla Seconda guerra mondiale.

In fifty bite-sized chapters spanning thousands of years, A Short History of the World in 50 Failures details how the world as we know it has been defined by plans gone awry, opportunities not seized upon and schemes that were always fated to end in catastrophe.

Muy variados son los acontecimientos que reúne bajo el título de "Momentos estelares": el ocaso del imperio de Oriente, en el que la caída de Constantinopla a manos de los turcos en 1453 adquiere su signo más visible; el nacimiento de "El Mesías" de Händel en 1741; la derrota de Napoleón en 1815; el indulto de Dostoievski momentos antes de su ejecución en 1849; el viaje de Lenin hacia Rusia en 1917...

The great series The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is one of the most monumental achievements in historical writing. In its eleven massive volumes, it tells the story of Western civilization from its origins to the age of Napoleon. This volume, The Climax of Christianity, is taken from The Age of Faith, the fourth in the series. It covers the years between 1095—the launching of the First Crusade—and 1300: the age of Dante Alighieri, whose epic poem Divine Comedy is one of the greatest treasures of our civilization.

地中海を中心に興亡を繰り返したさまざまな古代文明の世界、すなわち「地中海世界」の歴史を、古代ローマ史研究の第一人者、本村凌二氏が描きつくす。

Esta tercera etapa histórica del espíritu heleno es la de su decadencia final pero no por ello debemos prestarle menos atención que a las dos anteriores, porque sigue poseyendo una gran madurez creadora de la que se han alimentado todos los grandes estilos europeos de Roma y el Renacimiento europeo, como se verá en posteriores colecciones.

서유럽이 주목하고 있는 독일 뮌헨의 젊은 저널리스트 그룹 난젠&피카드(Nansen&Piccard)의 첫 저작으로, 섹스를 통해 지난 1만 년 인류 역사를 되짚는 『에로틱 세계사』. 호모사피엔스는 1만 년 전부터 섹스에 대해 광적으로 관심을 가져왔고, 어느 시대건 재생산을 목적으로 남녀가 성기를 결합하는 것 이상의 의미를 가지고 있다. 1만 년 전부터 현재에 이르기까지 역사 곳곳에 깊이 숨겨져 있던 성 담론을 체계적으로 발굴하고 정리한 이 책은 이처럼 인간이 늘 섹스를 과도하게 해왔음을 보여준다.

تحاول الدراسات الآتية تفسير ثلاثة من أعظم الأحداث في تاريخ البشرية.

Apasionantes relatos de piratas, bandidos, y bandoleros inspirados en personajes de los últimos quinientos años de historia de América. Piratas cuyo escenario es el mar en la época de la Colonia, bandidos y bandoleros cuyas andanzas tenían lugar en selvas, montañas, desiertos y veredas en tiempos de la República.

Hoof Beats transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity's ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.

تشير أحد أهم المخطوطات الأثرية والتى تشتهر بين علماء الآثار بإسم مخطوطات درسدن إلى أن قبائل المايا قدست الشمس والقمر كما أن كوكب الزهرة كان يحتل جزءاً من ثقافتهم وتقويمهم الزمنى الشهير..

هذا الكتاب ليس موجهًا في الأساس لقارئ التاريخ المحترف ولا للباحث الأكاديمي المحنك بل هو موجه في المقام الأول للشاب الذي يخطو خطواته متحسسًا طريقه في القراءة والبحث في التاريخ، ويعوقه ما هو شائع -ظلمًا- عن هذا المجال الممتع من أنه كئيب ممل مزدحم بالمعلومات الثقيلة على العقل...