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Vendor: Jessica Suess
Norse Gods, Monsters & Myths
ContentsNorse Gods, Monsters & Myths 2Contents 31. In The Beginning: The Norse Creation Myth 52. The Norse Cosmos 72.1 Yggdrasil 72.2 Niflheim 92.3 Muspelheim 102.4 Asgard 112.5 Vanaheim 132.6 Jotunheim 152.7 Midgard 172.8 Helheim 192.9 Alfheim 222.10 Svartalfheim 243. Norse Gods & Monsters 263.1...- $9.90
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Vendor: Donald A. MacKenzie
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria - With Historical Narrative & Comparative Notes
This volume deals with the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and as these reflect the civilization in which they develop, a historical narrative has been provided, beginning with the early Sumerian Age and concluding with the periods of the Persian and Grecian...- $34.99
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Vendor: Gregory S. Aldrete
The Long Shadow of Antiquity
Democracy? Mathematics? The Calendar? Hospitals? This book is an enlightening look at the myriad ways that the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have fundamentally influenced and shaped our modern world. Familiar institutions, rituals, and aspects of everyday modern life are examined to reveal...- $75.00
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Vendor: Lothrop Stoddard
The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $45.95
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Vendor: James George Frazer
Stories Of The Great Flood From Different Civilizations
""Stories of the Great Flood from Different Civilizations"" is a book written by James George Frazer that explores the various flood myths and legends from different cultures and civilizations around the world. The book delves into the similarities and differences between these stories, examining...- $21.95
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Vendor: G. Elliot Smith
The Ancient Egyptians and Their Influence Upon the Civilization of Europe 1911
The book ""The Ancient Egyptians and Their Influence Upon the Civilization of Europe 1911"" by G. Elliot Smith is a comprehensive study of the impact of ancient Egyptian civilization on Europe. The author explores the various aspects of Egyptian culture such as religion, art,...- $27.95
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Vendor: M. Xanthoudaki
Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries: An International Reader
Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research. The research in each of the...- $179.99
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Vendor: Romila Thapar
Indian Society and the Secular: Essays
The rich oeuvre of historical literature that Romila Thapar has authored holds a mirror to her remarkable personality. Like her writings do, she exudes confidence, conviction and commitment. She is honest, forthright and passionate. These qualities have made her the most articulate advocate of...- $15.00
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Vendor: Lene Rachel Andersen
Libertism: Grasping the 21st Century
What kind of future would we like? Freedom, security, prosperity, lush nature, and meaningful lives for all? Or a tech defined world where a handful of people own the algorithms and do not care about the planet and the well-being of the many? As...- $30.00
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Vendor: Angus Hawkins
Modernity and the Victorians
Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of nineteenth-century British history. In its place, the...- $80.00
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Vendor: Joost A. M. Meerloo
That Difficult Peace
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Vendor: Friedrich Froebel
The Education of Man
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Vendor: Jules Michelet
The Sorceress: A Study In Middle Age Superstition
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Vendor: Andrew G. Scott
An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time
Cassius Dio described his own age as one of "iron and rust." This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author's historiographic...- $131.00
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Vendor: John William Mackail
Virgil and His Meaning to the World of To-day
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Vendor: Joseph Farington
The Farington Diary Vol II
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Vendor: Guy Morrison Walker
The Measure of Civilization
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Vendor: G. Elliot Smith
The Evolution of the Dragon
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Vendor: Marquis De Condorcet
Outlines of an IHstorical View of the Progress of the Humanmind
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Vendor: Anna Callender Brackett
The Philosophy of Education
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Vendor: Charles De Garmo
Herbart and the Herbartians
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Vendor: James Francis Katherinus Hewitt
The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, Southwestern Asia, and Southern Europe: The Primitive Village. the Early History of India ... Astronom
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Vendor: Henry Home Kames
Sketches of the History of Man; Volume 1
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Vendor: Adam Ferguson
An Essay on the History of Civil Society: Eighth Edition
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Vendor: James Fairgrieve
Geography and World Power. A Text-book of Matriculation Standard, Illustrating the Geographic Control of History
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Vendor: Basil Davidson
The Lost Cities Of Africa
Author: Basil DavidsonISBN-10: 1258214857ISBN-13: 9781258214852Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 404Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.83d- $39.95
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Vendor: Paul Lafargue
Social and Philosophical Studies
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Vendor: Simon Nelson Patten
The New Basis of Civilization
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Vendor: Brian A. Pavlac
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities Throughout History, Prehistory to 1500
This book gives a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. It covers the minimum historical information that educated adults should know within a tightly-focused narrative and interpretive structure. The joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity. "Supremacies"...- $36.00
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Vendor: William Potter
Homo Sapiens: The History of Humanity and the Development of Civilization
Homo Sapiens tells the story of the species from its earliest evolutions through the development of the first civilizations up to the industrial and information revolutions that have shaped the modern age. William Potter's thrilling new account asks us to reconsider our traditional notions...- $24.99
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Vendor: Brian A. Pavlac
A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities Throughout History, 1500 to the Present
This book gives a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. It covers the minimum historical information that educated adults should know within a tightly-focused narrative and interpretive structure. The joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity. "Supremacies"...- $36.00
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Vendor: Sebastian Berg
Assyrian Mythology: Gods and Religion of Ancient Mesopotamia
Like many other belief systems hailing from this region, Assyrian mythology had an incredibly long-standing effect on other cultures and religions. Flourishing between 1900 BCE to 650 CE, Assyria has unique historical significance in the scheme of Mesopotamian mythology. Some of the most indicative...- $9.99
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Vendor: Colin Elliott
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast...- $32.00
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Vendor: Gaston Maspero
The Dawn of Civilization
The Dawn of Civilization by Gaston Maspero is a comprehensive historical account of the origins of human civilization. The book covers the period from the emergence of early humans in Africa to the rise of the first civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Maspero examines...- $71.95
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Vendor: Philip Mauro
The Number Of Man: The Climax Of Civilization (1910)
The Number of Man: The Climax of Civilization is a book written by Philip Mauro and published in 1910. The book explores the concept of the number of man as it appears in the Bible and its significance in the development of human civilization....- $34.95
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Vendor: Linda C. Eneix Ncis
Malta: The Temple Builders
A simple illustrated introduction to the Mediterranean's earliest civilization. Who knew that people were so advanced in the Stone Age? This richly illustrated book addresses the most frequently asked questions about the world's oldest freestanding buildings and the mysterious society that made them. What...- $19.95
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Vendor: H. R. Hall
A Season's Work at Ur, Al-'Ubaid, Abu Shahrain-Eridu-And Elsewhere: Being an Unofficial Account of the British Museum Archaeological Mission to Babylo
This classic work from 1930 describes the archaeological mission to Iraq which was a huge leap in the understanding of Mesopotamian history. It chronicles the journey, the excavations and the findings in a personalised account, heavily illustrated with maps, photographs of the locations and...- $64.95
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Vendor: Will Jackson
Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World
Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a...- $54.99
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Vendor: James Peterson
The Paradise Paradox: A Search for Lost Human Nature Among the Ruins of Civilization
From large-scale conflicts to our own private search for meaning, the quest for Paradise lies at the heart of human anxiety. We see it in the religious conflicts of the Middle East, the imperial ambitions of Russia, the Marxist promise of the Workers' Paradise,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Billy Wellman
Viking History and Norse Mythology: An Enthralling Journey of Exploration to Uncover the Secrets of the Vikings along with Nordic Myths, Gods, and God
Two manuscripts in one book: History of the Vikings: An Enthralling Overview of the Viking Age Norse Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Norse Myths, Gods, and Goddesses Learn how the Scandinavian people lived, who sailed as part of the Viking raids, the weapons used...- $31.99
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Vendor: Robert William Rogers
History of Babylonia and Assyria
Robert W. Rogers (1864-1930), American professor of biblical exegesis, became fascinated by the Hebrew language as a boy, when trying to understand the Book of Job, and subsequently studied ancient languages and history in Leipzig and Oxford, where he became a friend of A....- $49.99
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Vendor: Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index
The pre-eminent historian of his day, Edward Gibbon (1737-94) produced his magnum opus in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. Reissued here is the authoritative seven-volume edition prepared by J. B. Bury (1861-1927) between 1896 and 1900. Immediately and widely acclaimed, Gibbon's work remains...- $61.99
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Vendor: Luuk Huitink
Xenophon: Anabasis Book III
This is the first comprehensive commentary on a section of Xenophon's Anabasis in English for almost a century. It provides up-to-date guidance on literary, historical and cultural aspects of the Anabasis and will help undergraduate students to read Greek better. It also incorporates recent...- $104.00
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Vendor: Jim Hendleman
The Unknown but True & Untold Secrets of Civilization X: Revealed Mysteries of the Greatest Technological Civilization Planet Earth has Ever Known
This book covers the origin and development of selected categories of a Civilization ignored by the various sciences since its founding on 11 Aug 3114 BC, in Peru of South America shortly after the Fall of the Tower of Babylon.Author: Jim HendlemanISBN-10: 0997033452ISBN-13: 9780997033458Publisher:...- $19.99
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Vendor: Philip Barton
Dawn of Gold
Different schools of economics have pushed their theories on the origins and functions of money with the fevered eagerness of religious fanatics. To the average person, not much of what any of them say makes sense. That is because it doesn't. All schools of...- $30.33
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Vendor: Claire Norton
Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)Construction of the Past
The essays in this collection explore both how the employment of nation-state dominated discourses have caused a re-imagination of the past, and how the past has been re-constructed to accord with nationalist agendas. Although other works have considered in general terms how nations are...- $24.00
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Vendor: Moshe Perlmann
The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 4: The Ancient Kingdoms
In this volume Ṭabarī takes up the history of the ancient world, focusing on the Iranians and the Israelites after the time of Solomon. He establishes a comparative chronology between the two nations; viewing Bahman, the Persian king, as the son of Esther, and...- $34.95
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Vendor: Christopher Caudwell
Studies and Further Studies
In 1938, a year after his death in Spain at the age of thirty, Christopher Caudwell's Studies in a Dying Culture was published, to be followed eleven years later by a second volume, Further Studies in a Dying Culture. This volume makes available both...- $29.00
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Vendor: Morris Schaff
The Sunset Of The Confederacy
Schaff, a Union soldier, gives an eyewitness account of the Confederate retreat and defeat in 1865 with clarity and surprising sympathy.Author: Morris SchaffISBN-10: 081541210XISBN-13: 9780815412106Publisher: Cooper Square PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2002Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.66w x 0.76d- $17.95
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Vendor: Florin Curta
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, C. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages
This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and uses archaeological evidence, as well as coins and seals, fiscal documents, medieval chronicles, and hagiographic literature to examine the development of...- $40.95
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