history

This book offers a comprehensive look at geometry, including its history, its discoverers, and its applications.

This book describes political and social movements that have changed the world, presenting information on liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism, fascism, nationalism, and political movements using religion as a tool.

Discusses the people, movements, and events behind the theories and ideas that changed the modern world, covering topics in the biological sciences, mathematics and the physical sciences, the arts, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and politics and the law.

Offers an overview of unions and labor laws and provides opposing perspectives on whether or not unions are good for society, if labor laws favor employers, and if unions give working people a fairer deal or help some at the expense of others.

Contains essays that provide insights into how Americans were influenced and affected by the Cold War and the pursuit of communists in the United States by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy.

Profiles 100 defining moments in American history including the beginning of the Civil War, the sinking of the Titanic, the Kennedy assassination, and more.

Explores the history of food from antiquity to the twenty-first century, and describes how food allowed for the formation of civilizations and societies, and discusses innovations in agriculture, egalitarianism, trade, and other topics.

Explains how the human race's transition from hunter-gatherers to farming enabled the modern world while setting the groundwork for over-population, religious fundamentalism, and pandemic disease.