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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 465,420 ratings — published 1997
Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology, Gilgamesh, Ur, ... Persian Empire (Exploring Ancient History)
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avg rating 4.14 — 95 ratings — published 2019
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,386 ratings — published 2010
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 50,560 ratings — published 2015
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
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avg rating 3.90 — 11,820 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,295,687 ratings — published 2011
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,012 ratings — published 1963
Intellectuals and Society (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,082 ratings — published 2009
The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,157 ratings — published 1864
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 118 ratings — published
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 164 ratings — published 1969
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 5,184 ratings — published 2013
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 823 ratings — published 2025
Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 174 ratings — published 2025
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3,016 ratings — published 2012
The Dark Knight of the Souls (The Three Empires Book 1)
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avg rating 4.40 — 58 ratings — published
Echo in Time (Echo Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,249 ratings — published 2013
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 102 ratings — published 2025
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 103 ratings — published
La prêtresse d'Egypte: La cité des Dieux, T1 (French Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,605 ratings — published 2019
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 34 ratings — published 2001
Explore!: Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Mystics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 71 ratings — published 2007
The Tawny One: Soma, Haoma and Ayahuasca (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 154 ratings — published 2016
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,531 ratings — published 1988
Indus Valley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Zoroastrians (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices)
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avg rating 4.02 — 244 ratings — published 1979
The Sumerians: History's First Recorded Civilization (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.66 — 73 ratings — published 2016
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 973 ratings — published 2015
Servant of the Underworld (Obsidian and Blood, #1)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,368 ratings — published 2010
Febrero: A Mesoamerican Fantasy (Febrero Guerrero, #1)
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avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,830 ratings — published 2005
Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,682 ratings — published 2000
Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,172 ratings — published 2010
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,069 ratings — published 2007
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 2,030 ratings — published 2024
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,362 ratings — published 2024
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,493 ratings — published 2020
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,309 ratings — published 2019
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 112 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 6,224 ratings — published 2018
The Letter and the Cosmos: How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13 ratings — published 2016
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 736 ratings — published 2013
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 104 ratings — published 2017
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 672 ratings — published 2008
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,993 ratings — published 2019
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 121,113 ratings — published 2015
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,359 ratings — published 2015
“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”
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“Some moments arrive and we wish to see no trace at all from the civilisation! And such moments are the best proof that our civilisation has a demonic side!”
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