Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the bui[...]

This is the most engaging and cutting-edge survey of the world available today. Beginning with the origins of humanity up to our current times, this leading group of world historians tells the history of the world through a series of transformative stories: "Out of Africa," the "Axial Age," the buil[...]