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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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The Devil's Cup : Coffee, the Driving Force in History

By: Allen, Stewart Lee

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd: July 2001

Seller ID: 466661

ISBN: 1841951439

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building. So goes Stewart Lee Allen's crazy theory. Only thing is, after retracing coffee's journey to world domination - by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey - he has plenty of evidence to back it up.
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Dictionay of Global Culture

By: Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2011

Seller ID: 435035

ISBN: 039458581X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

By: Arikha, Noga

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: July 2008

Seller ID: 466682

ISBN: 0060731176

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to emerge. But by then humoural theory had already become deeply ingrained in Western language and thought--and endures to this day in surprising ways.

Interweaving the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy, Passions and Tempers explores the uncanny persistence of these variable, invisible fluids. It will c...
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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

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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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Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

By: Barrie, David

Price: $6.50

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: May 2015

Seller ID: 466597

ISBN: 0062279351

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery--an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.

Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of history's most important expeditions, interweaving these heroic tales with the account of his own transatlantic passage as a young man. A heady mix of adventure, science, mathematics, and derring-do, Sextant is infused with a sense of wonder and discovery. At...
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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

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On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage: July 2014

Seller ID: 466081

ISBN: 0307279642

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Best Book of the Year:
Mother Jones - Bloomberg News - National Post - Kirkus

In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes--the consummate bibliophile's bibliophile--shows how paper has been civilization's constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural, and scientific accomplishments. Since its invention in China nearly two millennia ago, the technology of paper has spread throughout the inhabited world.

With deep knowledge and care, Basbanes traces paper's trail from the earliest handmade sheets to...
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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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Good Old Days: They Were Terrible!

By: Bettmann, Otto L.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 385700

ISBN: 0394709411

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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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Creators A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By: Boorstein, Daniel J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2011

Seller ID: 474442

ISBN: 0394543955

Binding: Hardcover

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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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Honor: A History

By: Bowman, James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Encounter Books: May 2007

Seller ID: 466085

ISBN: 1594031983

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. This book traces the his
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Structures of Everyday Life (Civilization & Capitalism, Vol. 1)

By: Braudel, Fernand

Price: $7.50

Publisher: October 2011

Seller ID: 164148

ISBN: 0060912944

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 2 (English, French and French Edition)

By: Braudel, Fernand

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: January 1982

Seller ID: 319448

ISBN: 0060150912

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Broadway Books: May 2003

Seller ID: 438182

ISBN: 0767908171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bill Bryson is one of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey-into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It's a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Or, as the author puts it, ..".how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also wha...
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Category: Misc. History