著者:John Keane
出版社: Old Street Publishing
発売日: 2022年05月03日
'DEMOCRACY HAS A LONG, EVENTFUL PAST. DOES IT HAVE A FUTURE?The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria- Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, where citizens' assemblies held privi……続きを見る
Ancient Rome and Modern America: A Comparative Study of Morals and Manners by Guglielmo Ferrero offers a thought-provoking examination of the social and moral parallels between ancient Roman society……続きを見る
著者:Oded Galor
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2022年03月22日
A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species’ progress, from one of the world's preeminent thinkers.
“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many will……続きを見る
La presente GUIDA non è scritta per gli studiosi delle antichità pompeiane, sibbene per i visitatori che possono disporre di poche ore.
Quindi avvertiamo che in cinque a sei ore si possono osservare……続きを見る
著者:William H. McNeill
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年11月15日
"Remind[s] us that all humankind has a shared past and, particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare, a shared stake in the future." ーStuart Rochester, The Washington Post Book Wo……続きを見る
“An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” ーYuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
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著者:William H. McNeill
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2009年07月30日
"The most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind." ーH. R. Trevor-Roper, The New York Times Book Review
The Rise of the West, win……続きを見る
著者:Joseph Henrich
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2020年09月08日
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020
A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2……続きを見る
著者:Gary Lachman
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年12月08日
This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the little-known modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwa……続きを見る
A glance at the map of Europe in 1500 will show numerous unfamiliar divisions and names, especially in the central and eastern portions. Only in the extreme west, along the Atlantic seaboard, will t……続きを見る
**Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
“[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of th……続きを見る
著者:Hannah Carlson
出版社: Little, Brown and Company
発売日: 2023年09月12日
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising account, Hannah Carlson turns the pocket inside out and out tumble pocket watches, coins, pistols, a……続きを見る
著者:Bill Bryson
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年10月05日
In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of t……続きを見る
In this monumental work, Jawaharlal Nehru unfurls the vibrant tapestry of India's past. Written during his imprisonment by the British at Ahmednagar Fort, the book is both a candid personal account ……続きを見る
Who are the Hidden Masters?
Read explosive inside information about the true Illuminati by a current member. What was the connection between the Illuminati and the French and American Revolutions?
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Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical conte……続きを見る
著者:Josephine Quinn
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2024年09月03日
**An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)ーthat the West is, and always has been, truly global.
“Those a……続きを見る
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial i……続きを見る
'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it rema……続きを見る
The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity tes……続きを見る
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs
A ……続きを見る
著者:Alberto Manguel
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年08月26日
A book for book lovers by a true lover of books!
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookーthat string of confused, alien ciphersーshivered into meaning, and at that moment……続きを見る
What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been foundーuntil now.
Graha……続きを見る
Spend 24 hours with the ancient Egyptians.
Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning ……続きを見る
Over sixty years ago, C.L.R. James and a small circle of collaborators making up the radical left Johnson-Forest Tendency reached the conclusion that there was no true socialist society existing any……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2015年12月20日
The birth of a nation is always riddled with complexities, wars, and victories. All those names, dates and other details may prove to be difficult for a 5th grade to process. But with these interact……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Hudson
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2022年11月15日
Macbeth is arguably the world's most famous monarch. Both the historical king and the literary character have fascinated writers and audiences for centuries, beginning with the poets who recited the……続きを見る
“Mendeleyev’s Dream is a wonderfully entertaining and stimulating journey from alchemy to chemistry in search of the elements of our universe. It is a book of great clarity and depth.” Jim Crace
“A ……続きを見る
著者:Ed Conway
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2023年11月07日
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilization……続きを見る