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Maps: Finding Our Place in the World

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: November 2007

Seller ID: 168172

ISBN: 0226010759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures; maps made for divergent purposes and depicting a range of environments; and maps that embody the famous, the important, the beautiful, the groundbreaking, or the amusing. Built around the functions of maps the kinds of things maps do and have done Maps confirms the vital role of maps throughout history in c...
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Riddle of the Compass

By: Aczel, Amir D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: February 2011

Seller ID: 411566

ISBN: 0156007533

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the stone's use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians, more than a thousand years later, who discovered the ultimate destiny of the lodestone and unleashed its formidable powers. In Amalfi sometime in the tw...
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Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World

By: Alder, Ken

Price: $6.00

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 80475

ISBN: 0743216768

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-Fran ois-Andr M chain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their mission was to measure the world, and their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator--a standard that would be used "for all people, for all time."

The Measure of All Things is the astonishing tale of one of history's greates...
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Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

By: Alder, Ken

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 100595

ISBN: 074321675X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone."

"-- The Measure of All Things"

Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world, one voyaging north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona. Their findings would help define the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance between the pole and the equator, a standard that has since swept the planet. "The Measure of All Things" is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for...
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1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age

By: Andress, David

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 335663

ISBN: 0374100136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations--France; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britain--lay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution, wrestled to seize the prize of citizenship from the ruins of the old order. Disaster loomed for the United States, too, as it struggled, in the face of crippling debt and inter-state rivalries, to forge the constitutional amendments that would become known as the Bill of Rights. Britain, a count...
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Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

By: Appleby, Joyce

Price: $6.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2013

Seller ID: 375988

ISBN: 0393239519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World.

Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer su...
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Asimov's Chronology of the World: The History of the World From the Big Bang to Modern Times

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $15.00

Publisher: May 2013

Seller ID: 138295

ISBN: 0062700367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cultures of the West A History Volume Two: Since 1350

By: Backman, Clifford R

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 367990

ISBN: 0195388917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Cultures of the West: A History focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world-for good and for ill. The development of such key ideas as religion, science, and philosophy form the central narrative of this book.

The Cultures of the West stands apart from other textbooks in a variety of ways, the first being thematic unity. What did people think and believe, throughout our history, about human nature, the right way to live, God, the best forms of government, or the mean...
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

By: Barzun, Jacques

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: May 2001

Seller ID: 72590

ISBN: 0060928832

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.

In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch...
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

By: Barzun, Jacques

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper: May 2000

Seller ID: 136867

ISBN: 0060175869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New Worlds: Maps From The Age of Discovery

By: Baynton-Williams, Ashley,Baynton-Williams, Miles

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Quercus: January 2009

Seller ID: 428193

ISBN: 1848660189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Enterprise in Oil a History of Shell Oil

By: Beaton, Kendall

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 345734

ISBN: B000UDKH96

Binding: Hardcover

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City of Falling Angels

By: Berendt, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 195126

ISBN: 1594200610

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Against the Gods : The Remarkable Story of Risk

By: Bernstein, Peter L.

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 45477

ISBN: 0471295639

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller

"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism."
--The New York Times

"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book."
--The Wall Street Journal

"A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it."
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Good Old Days: They Were Terrible!

By: Bettmann, Otto L.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 385700

ISBN: 0394709411

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Good Old Days--were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so--especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900's. This period of history has receded into a benevolent haze, leaving us with the image of an ebullient, carefree America, the fun and charm of the Gilded Age, the Gay Nineties.

But this gaiety was only a brittle veneer that covered widespread turmoil and suffering. The good old days were good for but the privileged few. For the farmer, the laborer, the average breadwinner, life was an unrem...
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Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Blaisdell, Bob

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 378638

ISBN: 0486474674

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A great speech can stir the soul -- and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from some of the twentieth century's most memorable addresses. Writers and speakers in search of memorable quotations will appreciate this collection, as will any reader seeking historical wisdom and inspiration.
Featured speakers include Winston Churchill, rousing the British to defend their lives and homes against the Nazis; Mohandas Gandhi, advocating non-violent resistance to deplorable living conditions; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, calming the...
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Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By: Boorstin, Daniel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: May 2013

Seller ID: 112592

ISBN: 0679743758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.
Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso, Handel, Wagner, and Virginia Woolf, Boorstin assembles them into a grand mosaic of aesthetic and intellectual invention. In the process he tells us not only how great art (and great arch...
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Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: February 2014

Seller ID: 50577

ISBN: 0394726251

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
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Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: April 2011

Seller ID: 110186

ISBN: 0375704752

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?"

Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning.

Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx ...
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Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 112638

ISBN: 0679434453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Chronicles the human search for meaning and purpose as revealed through the lives and words of Moses, Plato, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Marx, Emerson, Einstein, and other great thinkers.
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