Civilization

#1 New York Times Bestseller New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century...

In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption....

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys.

A New York Times Notable Book A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to...

“This is history on a grand scale, with a sweep and ambition that is rare… A proper historical epic of dazzling range and achievement.” —William Dalrymple, The Guardian The epic history of the crossroads of the world—the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of...

From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock...

Distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings....

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and...

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What...

All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended.

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

It was a moment unique in human history: the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart....

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how...

In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of the Cell, the...

We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? In this wide-ranging history, Roland Allen reveals how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking.

"1824" revela como e por que os alemães vieram parar no Brasil do Primeiro Reinado (1822-1831). Viajando pela conturbada história da Europa e da América do Sul do início do século XIX, Rodrigo Trespach entrelaça, por meio de cartas pessoais, documentos e uma vasta bibliografia, a vida de líderes políticos, cientistas, militares, aventureiros e visionários com a de artesãos e camponeses.

100 Turning Points in Human History takes readers on a sweeping journey across millennia, exploring the moments that shaped civilization, transformed societies, and redefined what it means to be human. From the first mastery of fire and the invention of writing to the rise of empires, revolutions, and the digital revolution, each chapter illuminates a pivotal event, idea, or innovation that redirected the course of history. This book offers a unique blend of history, science, and insight, revealing not only what happened, but why it mattered and how the world might have been different ...

Unlock the secrets of the Pharaohs with a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the gods, monsters, and mysteries of Ancient Egypt. This 100-page journey takes you from the first breath of creation to the ultimate trial of the afterlife. You will learn about the Ennead of Heliopolis, the powerful family of gods whose rivalries and triumphs established the laws of the universe. Discover why the Egyptians believed existence was a fragile achievement requiring constant maintenance against the forces of Isfet, or chaos. Inside this book, you will explore: • The Golden Age of Osiris and the ...

In the summer of 1187, a single catastrophic defeat erased nearly a century of Christian conquest in the Holy Land. The Battle of Hattin destroyed the army of Jerusalem, and within months Saladin had recovered the holy city that crusaders had seized in blood eighty-eight years before. The shockwave that rippled across Europe would summon three kings and the largest military expedition Christendom had ever assembled. What followed was not a simple clash of faiths but a collision of extraordinary personalities pursuing conflicting agendas. Richard the Lionheart and Saladin never met face to ...

In November 1095, Pope Urban II stood before a crowd in central France and issued a call that would send tens of thousands of people on a journey most would never complete. What followed was not merely a military campaign but a mass movement that reshaped the medieval world, dragging peasants and princes alike across thousands of miles of hostile territory toward a city most had only heard of in scripture. The First Crusade remains one of history's most improbable ventures, a collision of religious fervor, political calculation, and raw human endurance that ended in triumph and atrocity in ...

The crusades most people know—Jerusalem, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin—represent only a fraction of medieval holy war. For every famous expedition to the Holy Land, dozens of crusades were launched within Europe itself, targeting pagans in the Baltic forests, heretics in French villages, and even Catholic kings who defied the pope. These forgotten campaigns reveal what crusading actually became: a flexible weapon of conquest, colonization, and political control that the Church wielded for three centuries across the continent. This book chronicles twenty-five of these neglected crusades...

What if history isn't a timeline, but a cycle? The most explosive investigation into The Lost Empire of Tartaria has been reborn. Completely expanded and updated for 2026, this new edition is now twice the size of the original, evolving from a theoretical exploration, into a massive forensic audit of our reality. With over double the content, dozens of new visual proofs, and groundbreaking data, this volume provides the definitive evidence that a global advanced civilization was systematically erased from our collective memory. WHAT’S NEW IN THIS MASSIVE UPDATED EDITION? THE GIZA ...

In 1248, King Louis IX of France launched the most carefully planned crusade in medieval history, commanding an army of fifteen thousand soldiers, a fleet of hundreds of ships, and resources accumulated over four years of meticulous preparation. What followed was one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune the medieval world had ever witnessed: a stunning initial victory, a catastrophic defeat in the Egyptian Delta, the capture and ransom of a king, and the destruction of an entire generation of French military leadership. The Seventh Crusade would reshape the political landscape of the ...

In 1202, thousands of European crusaders gathered in Venice to sail for Egypt and strike at the heart of Muslim power. Four years later, they had never reached the Holy Land but had instead conquered and savagely plundered Constantinople, the greatest Christian city in the world. The Fourth Crusade stands as one of history's most spectacular betrayals of stated purpose, a holy war that became a crime against the very faith it claimed to serve. The diversion from Egypt to Constantinople did not happen in a single decision but through a cascade of compromises, each seemingly justified by ...

The Eighth and Ninth Crusades were not glorious campaigns but death throes of a two-century movement built on faith, ambition, and blood. King Louis IX of France, later canonized as a saint, led thousands of soldiers to die of disease in a Tunisian wasteland that had nothing to do with Jerusalem. Prince Edward of England survived an assassin's poisoned blade in Acre, negotiated a meaningless truce, and sailed home knowing the crusader states were already corpses waiting for burial. This book traces the final twenty years of the crusader presence in the Levant, from Louis's catastrophic ...

In 1147, the two most powerful monarchs in Europe led the largest military expedition Christendom had ever assembled toward the Holy Land. Within eighteen months, their armies had been annihilated in the mountains of Anatolia, their survivors humiliated before the walls of Damascus, and their grand enterprise reduced to a bitter search for scapegoats. The Second Crusade remains one of history's most dramatic examples of how ambition, miscalculation, and human frailty can transform a sacred mission into catastrophe. This book traces the crusade from its origins in the shocking fall of Edessa...

What if the stones beneath your feet could speak? What would they tell you? ‘Rocks and Stones: The Untold Stories’ is a poetic and thoughtful journey into the hidden lives of stones, told as if the stones themselves are sharing their stories. From ancient monuments to sacred mountains, from powerful symbols like the Black Stone of the Kaaba and the Rosetta Stone to quiet pebbles resting underfoot, each stone carries deep memories of the world we live in.

Clément Marot & The French Poetry Phenomenon French poetry has always been part of the French culture as a patrimony, an inherited tradition that perpetuated itself since the beginning of La Chanson de Roland until now. The nobility of the idea behind the epical poetry was to narrate the heroic acts and exploits of Charlemagne as a distinguished warrior, and at the same time, to restore to his life and acts the true dignity and courage that they are worth in emphasizing his virtues, devotion and commitment.

First published in 1916, Pop Corn Recipes by Mary Hamilton Talbott is a fascinating glimpse into early 20th century American home cooking—when popcorn was valued not merely as a treat, but as a versatile and nourishing staple.

This is the fifth installment of the Aquarian Queries series. Across cultures and centuries, a select few beings have walked the earth as embodiments of divine presence—guiding humanity not through force, but through love, wisdom, and awakened consciousness. Avatars and Ascended Masters is a powerful spiritual journey into the lives and teachings of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders, divine messengers, and enlightened beings. From Krishna to Christ, Buddha to Muhammad, Guru Nanak to Laozi—this book explores how these extraordinary souls shaped the spiritual destiny of humankind.