World History category: 14642 books
by Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians.
Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit,...
Small Pieces Loosely Joined
A Unified Theory Of The Web
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming not only social institutions but also bedrock...
A History of Science in Society
From Philosophy to Utility, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.
New...
Shaping History
100 Great Leaders from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Throughout history, certain individuals have risen to the top. Driving others on, leading by example and leading from the front, they have shaped history. 100 Great Leaders looks in depth at some of the most renowned leaders, the most notorious leaders and the most unlikely leaders. Taken from ten different...
Signor Marconi's Magic Box
The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revo
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the center of it all. At a time when the...
The Gun Primer
A Writer's Guide To Firearm Facts For Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
So… you’re a writer. And maybe you write exciting stories about detectives, or bank robbers, or heroes, or maybe even sick and deranged killers to thrill and keep us all awake at night. Maybe it’s swashbuckling pirates or stately, antebellum mansions. No matter what you write, chances are very...
The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought.
In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions...
AL QAIDA IS BACK
Hamza Bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
With the end of the war with Russia in sight, Osama and the men around him began to dream of a global Jihad to spread the message of God and to bring the world under Islamic rule. Osama’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam, a leading Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, was the first to recognize...
God's Terrorists
The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism....
Imagine There's No Heaven
How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western...
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: Volume 1, Portugal
From Beginnings to 1807
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Did you know that slaves played a big role in the ancient African society? On initial thought, you might not think much about them because they are mainly serving rich families. But if you read this history book and really understand what they do, you will begin to appreciate their roles in society. Written for third graders, this book will prove to be a light and refreshing read.
by Paul M. Kochis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Beginning traces the struggles of Isabella of Castile and of the Incas to unify their nations. Isabella becomes Queen despite intrigues and launches Columbus to the New World. Francisco Pizarro dreams of escaping to this land, where only the nimblest survive. The Inca Empire with millions of souls...