Presents a brief, narrative history of the world for young readers, from the Stone Age up to the end of World War II.

Beginning with our most important questions and searching all of our past for answers, this is world history in a grand humanistic tradition.

This series of volumes on the manifold facets of Islamic culture is intended to acquaint a very wide public with such matters as: the theological bases of the faith and principles that constitute the bedrock of the overall structure; the ...

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax ...

A History of World Societies introduces students to the global past through social history and the stories and voices of the people who lived it.

This work is valuable as history, containing as it does contemporary information on the period after 278 A.D. It was used widely during the Middle Ages, and the existence today of nearly 200 manuscript copies is evidence of its past ...

Covers world history from the time of humanity prior to recorded history through globalization and includes questions about the future.

Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time.

International historical study from the 19th century to the present on political problems and the economic implications thereof preceding the first and second world war - western civilisation, the commencement of socialist movement in USSR, ...

Explores numerous environment, biological, and man-mad disasters, from Noah's flood and a hailstorm that killed 246 people to the Black Death and twentieth-century genocides.