Overview :"The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in ... Read More
Overview :Landmark world history from the creator of the top ten podcast Fall of Civilizations, for fans of Jared Diamond and David Graeber. Across t... Read More
Overview :A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades For almost two decad... Read More
Overview :The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did... Read More
Overview :Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renown... Read More
Overview :A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese ... Read More
Overview :In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it... Read More
Overview :"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." --The S... Read More
Overview :Book of the Glory of the Black Race is a book written by Al-Jahiz, who was a famous Afro-Iraqi scholar, believed to have been of East Africa... Read More
Overview :From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ush... Read More
Overview :An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George. An exuberant and ... Read More
Overview :No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domest... Read More
Overview :In this new and revised edition of Oswald Spengler's classic, Man and Technics, Spengler makes a number of predictions that today, more than... Read More
Overview :An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest c... Read More
Overview :A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's work in progre... Read More
Overview :#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, ... Read More
Overview :Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, infor... Read More
Overview :When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmansh... Read More