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"A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." - William Safire, New York Times
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural ...
The history of communication, Peters shows, is not a triumphant progress toward global harmony but rather a collection of uncanny devices that conjure angels, spirits ...
The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars ...
An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed ...
A huge success in hardcover, The Killing of History argues that history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little ...
The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact-political, demographic, ecological, and psychological-of disease ...
'This excellent book of eye-witness accounts ranges from Thucydides reporting on the plague at Athens in 420 BC to James Fenton wandering through the Marcos ...
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive ...
The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount - read 'Landscape and Memory' to have these explained...
'Landscape and Memory' is a history book ...
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In ...
The enchanted world of fairy tales has been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean and what ...
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and ...
Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and ...
