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  • Plagues and Peoples

    by William McNeill ...
    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures."A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pursuit of Power

    by William H. McNeill ...
    "Remind[s] us that all humankind has a shared past and, particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare, a shared stake in the future." —Stuart Rochester, The Washington Post Book WorldIn this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the West

    A History of the Human Community

    by William H. McNeill ...
    "The most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind." —H. R. Trevor-Roper, The New York Times Book ReviewThe Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Western Civilization

    A Handbook

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Concise, comprehensive information to give readers a sense of the sweep and continuity of Western history—from the National Book Award-winning author.Renowned historian William H. McNeill provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edition includes new material for the twentieth ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500–1800

    by William H. McNeill ...
    In Europe's Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keeping Together in Time

    Dance and Drill in Human History

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of the most widely read and respected historians in America pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement--and the shared feelings it evokes--has been a powerful force in holding human groups together.As he has done for historical phenomena as ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Bayonets For Hire

    Mercenaries at War, 1550-1789

    by William Urban, William H. McNeill ...
    An exploration of the changing role of mercenaries in early modern Europe from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution—"A fascinating scholarly work" (Stuart Asquith)."Urban gives a careful and highly readable survey of the highways and byways of18th century warfare, with an enjoyable and arresting emphasis on the individual's experience of war." —John FranceFrom the Greek professional ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Philosophy

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by William McNeill ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Introduction to Philosophy (volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete Works) presents Heidegger's lecture course delivered in the winter semester of 1928–1929 at the University of Freiburg, translated into English for the first time by William McNeil.In this lecture series, Heidegger explores two major themes: the relation between philosophy and science and the relation between philosophy and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hölderlin's Hymn "Remembrance"

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by William McNeill, Julia Ireland ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Martin Heidegger's 1941–1942 lecture course on Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn, "Remembrance," delivered immediately following his confrontation with Nietzsche, lays out a detailed plan for the interpretation of Hölderlin's poetry in which remembrance is a central concern. With its emphasis on the "free use of the national" and the "holy of the fatherland," the course marks an important progression in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Plagues and Peoples

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Narrated by Douglas James ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.“A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work.” —The New YorkerFrom the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Rise of the West

    A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay

    by William H. McNeill ...
    Narrated by Paul Brion ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours 55 min

    The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

    World, Finitude, Solitude

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by William McNeill, Nicholas Walker ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The renowned academic expounds on how Western philosophy went wrong in these translated lectures from 1929 and 1930."An important addition to the translations of Heidegger's lecture-courses." — International Philosophical QuarterlyFirst published in German in 1938 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics includes an extended treatment of the history ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus