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Product Description: The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History--the new brief version of The World: A History adapted by author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto himself. The use of The World: A Brief History offers added flexibility in teaching World History, allowing instructors to supplement the text with additional readers or other material of their choice...read more
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9780136008873 | Pap/dvdr edition (Prentice Hall, November 4, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story.

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9780136042532 | Prentice Hall, November 2, 2007, cover price $91.67

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Product Description: The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History--the new brief version of The World: A History adapted by author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto himself. The use of The World: A Brief History offers added flexibility in teaching World History, allowing instructors to supplement the text with additional readers or other material of their choice...read more
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9780136009238 | Pap/dvdr edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story.

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A distinguished scholar traces the history of exploration from a global perspective, following the pathfinders and their expeditions over the course of five millennia to the farthest reaches of the world, from ancient Egypt, through the merchants and missionaries of the Silk Roads, to the discovery of the New World and the nineteenth-century expeditions to Africa, the Arctic, North America, and the South Pacific. Reprint.
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9780670064977 | Viking Pr, April 5, 2007, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: High adventure and grand history from a master of the craft in a beautifully illustrated volume.
9780393062595 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Presenting the subject on a truly global scale, historian Fernâandez-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the last five millennia, laid down the routes of contact that have drawn together the farthest reaches of the world.

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9780393330915 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A distinguished scholar traces the history of exploration from a global perspective, following the pathfinders and their expeditions over the course of five millennia to the farthest reaches of the world, from ancient Egypt, through the merchants and missionaries of the Silk Roads, to the discovery of the New World and the nineteenth-century expeditions to Africa, the Arctic, North America, and the South Pacific.
9780199219339 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 27, 2007, cover price $23.15 | About this edition: Explorers forged the infrastructure of global history, first by finding the routes of migration that sundered human cultures, then - after millennia of divergence - by finding the routes that linked them up again.

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To commemorate the five hundred anniversary of the naming of America, a portrait of the man who gave his name to the continents of the Western Hemisphere chronicles the life and times of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure adventurer, salesman, sorcerer, and relentless borrower of others' experiences and achievements. Read by Michael Prichard. Simultaneous.
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9781400134335 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 1, 2007), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: A portrait of the man who gave his name to the continents of the western hemisphere chronicles the life of Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure adventurer, salesman, sorcerer, and relentless borrower of others' experiences and achievements.

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9780131135000 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2007), cover price $106.67

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9780131423770 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2007), cover price $86.67
9780131423794 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2007), cover price $70.67
9780131423763 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2007), cover price $86.67

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9780131423824 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2007), cover price $77.33

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Product Description: The World interweaves two stories–of our interactions with nature and with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation...read more
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9780205683475, titled "The World: A History: To 1200" | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, February 2, 2009), cover price $111.80 | About this edition: The World interweaves two stories–of our interactions with nature and with each other.
9780131777651 | Pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, August 7, 2006), cover price $94.00 | About this edition: The World gives students the whole story.

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Product Description: The World: A History interweaves two stories: the story of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation...read more
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9780205759323 | Prentice Hall, December 16, 2010, cover price $49.80 | About this edition: The World: A History interweaves two stories: the story of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other.
9780136061496 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, February 2, 2009), cover price $132.60 | About this edition: The World interweaves two stories—of our interactions with nature and with each other.
9780131777637 | Pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, August 7, 2006), cover price $107.20 | About this edition: The World gives students the whole story.

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Product Description: The World gives students the whole story.  It is a new kind of history text — not just a collection of facts and figures.  World renowned historian, world respected scholar, successful author of more than 25 books translated into 22 languages, and exceptional writer, author Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers a truly holistic narrative of the world, from human beginnings to the present...read more
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9780131777682 | Pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, August 7, 2006), cover price $94.00 | About this edition: The World gives students the whole story.

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Product Description: The World gives students the whole story.  It is a new kind of history text — not just a collection of facts and figures.  World renowned historian, world respected scholar, successful author of more than 25 books translated into 22 languages, and exceptional writer, author Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers a truly holistic narrative of the world, from human beginnings to the present...read more
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9780131777668 | 1 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, August 7, 2006), cover price $94.00 | About this edition: The World gives students the whole story.

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9789990167795 | Prentice Hall, August 4, 2006, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: The World: A History interweaves two stories: the story of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other. The environment-centered story is about humans distancing themselves from the rest of nature and searching for a relationship that strikes a balance between constructive and destructive exploitation...read more
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9780205759316, titled "The World: A History to 1500" | Prentice Hall, December 16, 2010, cover price $49.80 | About this edition: The World: A History interweaves two stories: the story of our interactions with nature and the story of our interactions with each other.
9780131777644 | Pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, August 2, 2006), cover price $107.20 | About this edition: The World gives students the whole story.

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The acclaimed historian traces the historical evolution of the entire Western Hemisphere from prehistoric times to the present day, examining the interconnections among North, Central, and South America and the complex links--among migration, trade, religion, culture, food, and more that have shaped the region. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9780375504761 | Modern lib edition (Modern Library, May 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers a history of North, Central, and South America, identifying the common forces at work in the hemisphere and the cross-cultural interactions and conflicts in evidence.

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9780812975543 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, January 10, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed historian traces the historical evolution of the entire Western Hemisphere from prehistoric times to the present day, examining the interconnections among North, Central, and South America and the complex links--among migration, trade, religion, culture, food, and more that have shaped the region.

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Product Description: From the Publisher: Authoritative, Compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philosophical notions that have shaped our world since the dawn of civilization...read more
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9780789496096 | Dk Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From monotheism and women's rights to the afterlife and taboo foods, this overview of human history and philosophy examines how important ideas have shaped civilization.

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9780789499417 | Dk Pub, October 31, 2005, cover price $0.02 | About this edition: From the Publisher: Authoritative, Compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philosophical notions that have shaped our world since the dawn of civilization.

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9788483065839 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, May 31, 2004), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures. Epic struggles and heroic adventures, passionate jealousies and psychological deceptions, comic mistakes and tragic destinies--these fabulous tales are all part of our common legendary past...read more
By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (editor) and Marina Warner (editor)
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9780292706071 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 30, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
9780714150185 | British Museum Pubns Ltd, May 10, 2004, cover price $33.85 | About this edition: Here retold are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
9780292702042 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.

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A distinguished historian and author of Millennium looks at what it means to be human in an enlightening history of humankind, confronting the dilemma of what it means to be human from a historical perspective and how that perception has been changed by recent discoveries from science and philosophy. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780192805751 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A distinguished historian and author of Millennium looks at what it means to be human in an enlightening history of humankind, confronting the dilemma of what it means to be human from a historical perspective and how that perception has been changed by recent discoveries from science and philosophy.
9780192804174 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: You think you're human.

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Charts the course of humanity's relationship with food, discussing such topics as the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inceptions of herding and agriculture, the rendering of food as a status symbol, and the globalization of it comes from. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780743226448 | Free Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A chronicle of the eight top revolutions in the history of food traces the origins of cooking, from the inception of herding and agriculture, to the industrialization and globalization of food, citing the integral connection between food and the cultures it comes from.

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9780743227407 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Charts the course of humanity's relationship with food, discussing such topics as the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inceptions of herding and agriculture, the rendering of food as a status symbol, and the globalization of it comes from.

Miscellaneous:

9780743234153 | Free Pr, June 4, 2002, cover price $13.99

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Product Description: Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina perhaps best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. In July 1789 he sailed from Cadiz in the purpose-built corvettes, "Descubierta" and "Atrevida"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Donald C. Cutter (introduced by), Andrew David (editor), Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (editor), Carlos Novi (editor) and Glyndwr Williams (editor)
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9780904180725 | Hakluyt Society, June 1, 2002, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina perhaps best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment.

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Argues that geographical, agricultural, and social factors shaped the civilizations which developed in various climatic regions, and explains how the success of civilizations depends on environmental resources. (view table of contents)
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9780743202480 | Free Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Argues that geographical, agricultural, and social factors shaped the civilizations which developed in various climatic regions, and explains how the success of civilizations depends on environmental resources.

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9780743202497 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Argues that geographical, agricultural, and social factors shaped the civilizations which developed in various climatic regions, and explains how the success of civilizations depends on environmental resources.
9789990037210 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

Miscellaneous:

9780743216500 | Free Pr, September 14, 2001, cover price $13.99

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A fascinating look at truth in human society examines how, throughout history, people have tried to distinguish truth from falsehood and explains aspects of humanity's basic assumptions about truth. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780312242534 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Looks at truth in human society, examining how, throughout history, people have tried to distinguish truth from falsehood and explains aspects of humanity's basic assumptions about truth

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9780312274948 | Griffin, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A fascinating look at truth in human society examines how, throughout history, people have tried to distinguish truth from falsehood and explains aspects of humanity's basic assumptions about truth.

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Product Description: A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments. A pre-eminent historian calls into question earlier findings by himself and other scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781842120842 | Phoenix, March 1, 2001, cover price $10.98 | About this edition: A highly readable and controversial portrait of a man driven by religion, influenced by mysticism, and, at best, a primitive navigator who barely knew how to use his ship's instruments.

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Two renowned historians, one Catholic and the other Protestant, explore the current worldwide resurgence of Christianity and suggest that it is a result of an ongoing cycle of ebb and flow stemming from the Protestant Reformation. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780684831046 | Scribner, February 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Suggests the resurgence of Christianity is a result of an ongoing cycle of ebb and flow stemming from the Protestant Reformation

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