Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • The War of 1812

    This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three-year struggle. He examines the conflict from the British (and Canadian) as well as the American point of view, relating events in America to the larger war going on in Europe."A balanced analysis of tactics and strategy, this book also summarizes ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Americans: The Colonial Experience

    Series Book 1 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeIn this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Image

    A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

    Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions is an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths."The book that best explains Trump’s dominance may well have been published in 1962. In The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, the historian Daniel J. Boorstin described the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Creators

    A History of Heroes of the Imagination

    Series Book 1 - Knowledge Series
    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Series series The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    This Modern Library eBook edition collects all three volumes of Edward Gibbon’s towering masterpiece of classical history The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—complete and unabridged.Edward Gibbon’s magnum opus narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century. Alongside the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I

    A.D. 180 to A.D. 395 (A Modern Library E-Book)

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Series Book 1 - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind,' recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude. Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous eighteenth-century historian--a precise, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Seekers

    The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

    Series Book 3 - Knowledge Series
    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators , Daniel J. Boorstin first told brilliantly how e discovered the reality of our world, and then he celebrated man's achievements in the arts. He now turns to ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Cleopatra's Nose

    Essays on the Unexpected

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Discoverers

    Series Book 2 - Knowledge Series
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Americans: The National Experience

    Series Book 2 - Americans Series
    This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • The Americans: The Democratic Experience

    Series Book 3 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition

    A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own ... Read more

    $22.95 USD