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What would it be like if you were transported back to Athens 420 BCE? This time-traveler’s guide is a fascinating way to find out . . .  Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would...
“Written by the greatest living Egyptologist, this wonderful, fun, and short book will take you inside the heads of the ancient Egyptians.”—Sarah Parcak, National Geographic  Egyptian culture is divided from us by several millennia, a lost people and a dead language....
This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl...
Experience the “fascinating, rich”—and often harrowing—history of the Klondike Gold Rush through the stories of Jack London and 5 other men and women at a Canadian Yukon boomtown (The Globe and Mail).THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TV MINISERIES, KLONDIKEBetween 1896 and...
The British historian and author of Into India delivers “a history that is intelligent, incisive, and eminently readable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).  Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A...
A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it, from the founder and editor of Current Affairs.“A scrupulous, carefully argued work that will challenge liberals and confound conservatives.” —Ryan Cooper, national correspondent for The...
The New York Times–bestselling author investigates various plots to save the murdered Russian Imperial family, why they failed, and who was responsible.An International BestsellerThe murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks...
“Sattin is a terrific storyteller.” —David Farley, New York TimesThe remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between...
“Vivid case studies . . . Adler’s frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking.” —Publishers Weekly  Why do so many contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno. "Son, we’re going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into...