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| From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization: The West and the Rest is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to... In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most...
Civilization" is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance--and the "killer applications" that made this... From Neanderthal man to the Sumerians to the Roman Empire, "A Short History of Progress" dissects the cyclical nature of humanity's...
Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was... With enormous range and delight, classicist Goldhill lifts the veil on the modern inheritance of classical traditions and reveals the Greek...
In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the... In this book Professor Woolley, one of the world's foremost archaeologists, shows quite clearly that when Egyptian civilization began the...
"Ancient Civilizations" offers a comparative analysis of the field, including both old world and new civilizations, and explores the... The first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations.
Arguably Niebuhr's most important work, this book offers a sustained articulation of his theological ethics and is considered a landmark in... In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright...
The iconoclastic journalist and bestselling author goes beyond the revelations of his classic "Alien Agenda," interweaving science and... "The barbarian rules by force; the cultivated conqueror teaches." This maxim form the age of empire hints at the usually hidden connections...
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