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In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world.Sku: 9780345386236
The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman$34.00 -
Reading Flannery O'Connor's letters, one feels the living presence in them. Their tone, their content, and even the number of those she corresponded with, reveal the vivid life that was in her, and much of the quality of a personality often badly guessed at.Sku: 9780374521042
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
By: Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald$33.00 -
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.Sku: 9780393059748
The History of the Ancient World
By: Susan Wise Bauer$47.00 -
Students are invited to continue on from a historical study of the Hebrew people to an investigation of the history of the Church. This was so evidently necessary to Christians of the fourth century that one of their own, Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea, wrote the first book to recount the struggles and victories of the first followers of Christ. Students can now dedicate an entire year to learning the material those Christians began investigating almost 1,700 years ago.Sku: 9780140445350
The History of the Church
By: By Eusebius Introduction by Andrew Louth Edicted by Andrew Louth Translated by G. A. Williamson$27.99By: By Eusebius Introduction by Andrew Louth Edicted by Andrew Louth Translated by G. A. Williamson$27.99 Add to cart Quick View -
Completed in 1136, this classic chronicle traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later.Sku: 9780140441703
The History of the Kings of Britain
By: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Translated by Lewis Thorpe$25.00 -
SaleA masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right began to replace might as the engine of empire.Sku: 9780393059755
The History of the Medieval World
By: Susan Wise Bauer$47.00Original price was: $47.00.$42.30Current price is: $42.30.By: Susan Wise Bauer$47.00Original price was: $47.00.$42.30Current price is: $42.30. Add to cart Quick View -
A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world. Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.Sku: 9780393059762
The History of the Renaissance World
By: Susan Wise Bauer$47.00 -
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.Sku: 9781400078677
The Island at the Center of the World
By: Russell Shorto$27.99 -
The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible word of God as first revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago.Sku: 9780141393834
The Koran
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Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature.Sku: 9781400031146
The Landmark Herodotus
By: Herodotus, Edited by Robert B. Strassler$42.00 -
Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possession for all time,” and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom.Sku: 9780684827902
The Landmark Thucydides
By: Thucydides, Translated by Richard Crawley, Edited by Robert B. Strassler$43.00By: Thucydides, Translated by Richard Crawley, Edited by Robert B. Strassler$43.00 Add to cart Quick View -
Don Juan of Austria, one of history’s most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant’s hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as his half-brother, the attractive youth quickly became a central figure in a Court where intrigues and romances abounded. Don Juan’s intelligence, kindness and devout attachment to the Church enabled him to live unscathed in an environment of luxury, violence and treachery.Sku: 9781586174149
The Last Crusader
By: Louis de Wohl$29.95 -
The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus.Sku: 9780140449280
The Last Days of Socrates
By: Plato, Translated by: Hugh Tredennick, Harold Tarrant$19.00 -
From CiRCE Institute:Long considered an essential title in classical literature, Plutarch’s Lives have, unfortunately, fallen out of favor among many contemporary readers and educators. Most translations have rendered Plutarch’s original language, which is so energetic in the Greek, quite dryly in English, thus relegating these classic tales to the dusty bookshelves of specialists.Sku: 9780999146682
The Lawgivers – The Parallel Lives of Numa Pompilius and Lycurgus of Sparta
By: David Hicks, C. Scot Hicks,$29.50 -
The original bestseller from the beloved author Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under-appreciated landscape.Sku: 9780141030586
The Old Ways
By: Robert MacFarlane$22.00 -
The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution is perhaps one of the most important books written on the American Revolution by a European author.Sku: 9780865978201
The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution
By: Friedrich Gentz, Translated by John Quincy Adams$17.50