Roger T. Ames
Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a... The most widely read military classic in human history, newly ... [... more]
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Leslie T. Chang
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers-the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie ... [... more]
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Joel L. Kraemer
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man's life ... [... more]
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Henry Blackaby
Although the cross is God's decisive deed in human history, the full meaning of it is far too much for a mere human mind to grasp. But through Henry Blackaby's careful examination, the cross becomes not a doctrine, but an experience. You'll be ... [... more]
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Nathaniel Altman
Throughout human history, the honeybee has remained one of nature's most magnificent and hardest working creatures. The remarkable honeybee that we know today is, in fact, the product of millions of years of evolution (evidence exists of a ... [... more]
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Coal: A Human History
 Just Another Jerremiad: This book is not so much about coal, as it is about the environmental issues surrounding its use. I would have thought, though, that even a book of this sort would provide at least some of the basics of coal chemistry, giving some [... more]
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Adam Gopnik
On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost ... [... more]
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Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History
the book you SHOULD have read in college: Gellner delivers on his promise of "structure of human history", also keeping his word in the introduction to write for both those new to anthropology and the specialists. This is 'what history means', [... more]
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Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of ...
From Amazon.com: In 1815, Napoleon's armies fell to defeat at Waterloo, a clash that would change the course of world events. Far more Europeans died that year, though, as a result of a volcanic explosion in Indonesia--one cataclysmic eruption among the [... more]
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Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our ...
Political Correctness, the Antithesis of Science: This book is an unfortunate example of what happens when political correctness collides with the real world of science. Olson has such a determinedly preachy style of writing about an important topic of [... more]
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Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History
From Amazon.com: No small themes for William McNeill, a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West and Plagues and Peoples to the modestly titled--and wonderful--History of the World. Here McNeill turns his attention to the role of [... more]
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God's Strategy in Human History
One of my favorite books!: Forster and Marston have delivered a stellar book that attempts to present an exegetical and Scriptural framework for the content presented in the book. Instead of beginning from a set of deductive theological assumptions and [... more]
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