HISTORY / Civilization

A Brief Natural History of Civilization

Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity

by Mark Bertness

The Story of Greece and Rome

by Tony Spawforth

The Master and His Emissary

The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist

Fishing

How the Sea Fed Civilization

by Brian Fagan

Against the Grain

A Deep History of the Earliest States

by James C. Scott

A Little History of Science

Little Histories

by William Bynum

Introduction to the Bible

The Open Yale Courses Series

by Christine Hayes

Stepping-Stones

A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

Foreword by Ian Tattersall

A Little Book of Language

Little Histories

by David Crystal

Europe Between the Oceans

9000 BC-AD 1000

by Barry Cunliffe

Culture and Anarchy

Rethinking the Western Tradition

by Matthew Arnold

Edited by Samuel Lipman

Civilization Before Greece and Rome

by H. W. F. Saggs

Main Currents of Western Thought

Readings in Western Europe Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present

Edited by Franklin Le Van Baumer

In Bluebeard's Castle

Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

by George Steiner

The Making of the Middle Ages

by R. W. Southern