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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species. Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to...

In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour of their arrival, the city’s historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far-right...

"Tell Me More: About Ancient Civilizations" delves into the captivating realms of Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome, exploring their rise, achievements, and enduring influence on modern society. From the earliest settlements to monumental empires, this book illuminates the social structures, cultural contributions, and technological innovations that defined these ancient cultures.

"1824" revela como e por que os alemães vieram parar no Brasil do Primeiro Reinado (1822-1831). Viajando pela conturbada história da Europa e da América do Sul do início do século XIX, Rodrigo Trespach entrelaça, por meio de cartas pessoais, documentos e uma vasta bibliografia, a vida de líderes políticos, cientistas, militares, aventureiros e visionários com a de artesãos e camponeses.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world. Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are...

The global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today’s neighborhood indies Whether it’s a local indie bookshop, an online megaretailer, or a chain bookstore, the place we buy books is an essential part of our reading lives. Bookstores connect...

A New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of...

This is the fifth installment of the Aquarian Queries series. Across cultures and centuries, a select few beings have walked the earth as embodiments of divine presence—guiding humanity not through force, but through love, wisdom, and awakened consciousness. Avatars and Ascended Masters is a powerful spiritual journey into the lives and teachings of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders, divine messengers, and enlightened beings. From Krishna to Christ, Buddha to Muhammad, Guru Nanak to Laozi—this book explores how these extraordinary souls shaped the spiritual destiny of humankind.

What if the stones beneath your feet could speak? What would they tell you? ‘Rocks and Stones: The Untold Stories’ is a poetic and thoughtful journey into the hidden lives of stones, told as if the stones themselves are sharing their stories. From ancient monuments to sacred mountains, from powerful symbols like the Black Stone of the Kaaba and the Rosetta Stone to quiet pebbles resting underfoot, each stone carries deep memories of the world we live in.

Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world.

Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds is the most up-to-date and comprehensive investigation of history's infamous sunken city. Nowhere else will you find a more dramatic and convincing presentation of the evidence for its archaeological reality.

The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilization. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made groundbreaking contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, shows how there was no single rise and fall of the Maya but a series of births and collapses over a breathtaking span of nearly three millennia.

The Rare Genes from History and Basic Haplotype Test of DNA Consultants can produce sharply delineated patterns of genetic matches. From the Helen Gene and Peoples of the Steppes Gene to the Sundaland Gene and Aztlan Gene, rare values on your autosomal DNA profile are better than common ones in analyzing your various ethnic strains and deep history since the last Ice Age.

Discover the remarkable history of the Fall of the Roman Empire... At its height, the Roman Empire was the largest and most powerful empire ever seen in the Western world. It covered 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) of territory, where a population of over 80 million was protected by a disciplined, well-trained army of almost half a million troops. By the third century, the empire had become so vast that it was effectively divided into two parts: the Western Empire, including the city of Rome, and an Eastern Empire governed from the city of Nicomedia in present-day Turkey.

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud delivers one of the most provocative examinations of modern life ever written. In this concise yet profound work, Freud explores the tension between our instinctual drives and the demands of society—arguing that the very structures that protect us also generate deep, unavoidable dissatisfaction.

Con Augusto acaba la República y se inicia el Imperio. Acaba el mundo antiguo y la civilización romana se hace universal, así comienza el mundo moderno. Con el Imperio, la ciudadanía dejará de ser un privilegio de una minoría opresora para convertirse en un derecho de nacimiento que integrará a todos por igual, y las viejas ciudades-estado como Atenas, Esparta, Cartago, o incluso Roma, serán sustituidas por el concepto de nación.

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world.

This is the seventh installment of the Aquarian Queries series. Fringe and Forbidden Theories ventures into the shadowlands of history, science, and spirituality—where forbidden knowledge, fringe science, and esoteric thought challenge the boundaries of what we’ve been told is true. From ancient mysteries and lost civilizations to suppressed wisdom and controversial inquiry, this volume invites listeners to re-examine the past with fresh eyes and open minds.

Quando si parla di storia, il primo pensiero va quasi sempre ai grandi eventi, agli imperi, alle guerre, ai potenti che dominano i manuali scolastici e le fonti storiografiche. Ma, guardando oltre la superficie, tra le pieghe del tempo compaiono anche le persone comuni che spesso sono state protagoniste di avventure ed emozioni degne di essere scoperte e raccontate. Proprio per questo Costantino Andrea De Luca - giovane storico e divulgatore - riporta alla luce quelle "vite senza nome" che hanno attraversato i secoli e che presentano incredibili somiglianze con la contemporaneità.