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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate th... »
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why an... »
The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past
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The title says it all! As with its predecessor this book is both a wonderful idea and an enjoyable way to spend a few minutes a day (or to plow through all at once) exercising the mind by visiting bite-size chapters on the great figures and events in the history of the United States of America. True I have found the occasional error in among its multi... »
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise
Most people who have heard the term "Medieval Warming Period" tend to think of it as a period of good weather in Western Europe which led to population gr... »
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish S
This writing covers a lot of territory in a relatively short space. I could have read much more. There are insights and clues into the life of New Orlea... »
Salt: A World History
This book was a fascinating read. The facts inside were amazing and gave me a greater appreciation, and different perspective, of how the outer reaches of... »
Twelfth Planet: Book I of the Earth Chronicles
Zecharia Sitchen's The 12th Planet is the starting point on a quest that spans six books and 20 years worth of ancient aliens, genetic manipulation... »
How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of His
In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars,... »
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Drawing on original writings and walking in the footsteps of Marco Polo himself, Laurence Bergreen's Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu is the most ... »
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The Tr
"I am a Scotsman," Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, "therefore I had to fight my way into the world." So did any number of his compatriots over a period ... »
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