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A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time.--Nature"This is a must-read…

When one thinks of the world’s first cities, Sumer, Memphis, and Babylon are some of the first to co…

When one thinks of the world’s first cities, Sumer, Memphis, and Babylon are some of the first to co…

From a brilliant young historian, a colorful journey through 7,000 years and 26 world cities that sh…

A study of the substantial evidence for a former race of giants in North America and its 150-year su…

What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will…

Chronicling the journey of ninety-year-old Sam Massell, each chapter is a book unto itself on the se…

In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the …

Nearly 2,500 years after the Golden Age of Athens, people across the world today continue to be fasc…

Travel back to a thousand years before the Aztecs, when volcanos obliterated cities, impelling the s…

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from southern Mesop…

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime i…

A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stati…

Africa may have given rise to the first humans, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civi…

Despite the fact some Neolithic communities grew to considerable sizes, they’re typically not consid…

Despite the fact some Neolithic communities grew to considerable sizes, they’re typically not consid…

Despite the fact some Neolithic communities grew to considerable sizes, they’re typically not consid…

The Neolithic period came before the Bronze Age and is generally regarded as the final subdivision o…

When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremely brutal con…

There were talented and dexterous people living in what is now southern Iraq during the time of Sume…

When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremely brutal con…

In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling's The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (…

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable ris…

After being forced out of Rhodes by the Ottomans in the early 16th century, the Knights Hospitaller …

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana, journalist Gary Rivlin trace…

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egyp…

At the start of the fourth millennium BC, civilization arrived with the advent of cities and the inv…

In his book, Rasmus Rasmussen provides a full account of the Viking's [1893] journey from Norway to …

Of all the great cities in the world, few personify their country like New York City. As America’s l…

An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the humble and loveable sheep have had…

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz, and includes a fully immers…

When people think about the Second World War, they seldom think in terms of silence and small acts. …

Hurricanes have been devastating communities for thousands of years, bringing about various combinat…

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An Americ…

Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game set 12 years before the first Gears of War…