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  • The First Americans

    In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

    J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by Graeme Davis ...
    Discover the evidence that Vikings walked on American soil—centuries before Columbus.When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492 and the Borgia pope declared it a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a five-hundred-year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America.In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions

    Discovering the Varus Battlefield

    by Tony Clunn ...
    The story of an ancient ambush that devastated Rome—and the modern-day hunt that finally revealed its location and its archaeological treasures.In 9 A.D., the seventeenth, eighteenth, & nineteenth Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully ... Read more

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  • Prehistory

    The Making of the Human Mind

    by Colin Renfrew ...
    Series Book 30 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Before the Dawn

    Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

    by Nicholas Wade ...
    “Meaty, well-written.” —Kirkus Reviews“Timely and informative.” —The New York Times Book Review“By far the best book I have ever read on humanity’s deep history.” —E. O. Wilson, biologist and author of The Ants and On Human NatureNicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groun... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lost to the West

    The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

    Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • David and Solomon

    In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition

    The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible Unearthed. Now, with David and Solomon, they do nothing less than help us to understand the sacred ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Beyond the Bible - A Revealing Look at the Bible, History, and Myth from the World In which They Live.

    by Neil P Harvey ...
    Beyond the Bible is an engaging look into the Bible's origins and how its stories played out in ancient religion and myth. Neil P. Harvey reexamines modern traditions and uncovers breathtaking, seldom revealed facts that challenge long-held, conventional beliefs about the Bible and history. ... Read more

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  • The Prophet

    The Life of Leon Trotsky

    This 3-part biography of Leon Trotsky was hailed by Graham Greene as one of “the greatest . . . in the English language”—a must read for those interested in the history of Soviet Russia and international communism.Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Missing Links

    In Search of Human Origins

    by John Reader ...
    This is the story of the search for human origins - from the Middle Ages, when questions of the earth's antiquity first began to arise, through to the latest genetic discoveries that show the interrelatedness of all living creatures. Central to the story is the part played by fossils - first, in establishing the age of the Earth; then, following Darwin, in the pursuit of possible 'Missing Links' ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Scots

    A Genetic Journey

    This unique "fusion of science and the physical history" traces the story of the Scots through their DNA ( Sunday Herald).An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies, and this book traces the ancient story of Scotland from that scientific viewpoint. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting history in spectacular fashion.In Scotland: A Genetic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus