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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel . While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some...
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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume 1: To 1789
Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, James Jacob, Margaret Jacob, Theodore Von Laue
Wadsworth Publishing
Wadsworth Publishing
This survey text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Known for its accessible writing style, Western Civilization appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful...
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Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World , here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very...
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Miguel Leon-Portillo
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
A new expanded version of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as told by Aztec voicesâwith a new Postscript by the editor For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told...
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand. Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to...
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Twelfth Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles)
Zecharia Sitchin
Harper
Harper
Zecharia Sitchen's The 12th Planet is the starting point on a quest that spans six books and 20 years worth of ancient aliens, genetic manipulation, and scrutiny of linguistic minutiae. If we trust Sitchen's translation abilities, we must be...
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Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (5th Edition)
Michael F. Petracca, Madeleine Sorapure
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall
From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging book on pop culture can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture...
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