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  • The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Mainz, June 12-15, by Horster, Marietta
    Marietta Horster

    The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Mainz, June 12-15,

    This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and examines in which ways (Roman) landscapes were narrated and semantically represented. To assess...
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  • Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History by Strootman, Rolf
    Rolf Strootman

    Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History

    Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes...
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  • Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome: The Roman History, Books 1-21 by Burden-Strevens
    Christopher Burden-Strevens

    Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome: The Roman History, Books 1-21

    In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio's enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio's...
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  • Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century Ce by A. Cobb
    Matthew A. Cobb

    Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century Ce

    In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean worlds from the Roman annexation of Egypt (30 BCE) up to the early...
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  • Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 Bce by McKechnie
    Paul McKechnie

    Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 Bce

    Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the 'Greek millennium' (J.G. Manning's phrase) in Egypt―living long enough to leave a powerful kingdom to...
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  • Brill's Companion to Propertius by Günther, Hans-Christian
    Hans-Christian G?ther

    Brill's Companion to Propertius

    The present volume provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most difficult authors of classical antiquity. All the major aspects of Propertius' work, its themes, the poetical technique, its sources and models, as well as the history of Propertian scholarship and the vexed...
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  • Brill's Companion to Herodotus by Bakker
    Egbert J. Bakker

    Brill's Companion to Herodotus

    Herodotus' Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as...
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  • Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Fischer, Steven Roger
    Steven Roger Fischer

    Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island

    On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language...
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  • The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal by Khan, Muhammad Mojlum
    Muhammad Mojlum Khan

    The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal

    "The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work. . . . I am sure this book will add to the vista of knowledge in the field of Muslim history and heritage of Bengal. I recommend this work."--A. K. M. Yaqub Ali, PhD, professor...
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  • The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami by Okawa, Ryuho
    Ryuho Okawa

    The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami

    There used to be the God called Ame-no-Mioya-Gami in Japan. He came from the Andromeda Galaxy to land on the foothills of Mt. Fuji about 30,000 years ago. Using his spiritual abilities, the author and spiritual leader Ryuho Okawa explored the mystery of the...
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  • Uluru and the Star People by Barrow, Valerie
    Valerie Barrow

    Uluru and the Star People

    "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."- Nikola Tesla. We have experienced Star Wars on our Planet. ULURU is a result of a star war that...
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  • Man Through the Ages: A Global History by Bowle, John
    John Bowle

    Man Through the Ages: A Global History

    A panoramic history of humanity, exploring the debt that the modern societies owe to their forebears. Perfect for readers of Jared Diamond, Paul Kennedy and Yuval Noah Harari. How have societies, cultures and traditions from across the globe shaped our conception of who we...
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  • Atlantis: The Origins Of Ancient Civilizations And Mystery (New Evidence Of A Previous Technological Civilization) by Gill, David
    David Gill

    Atlantis: The Origins Of Ancient Civilizations And Mystery (New Evidence Of A Previous Technological Civilization)

    Atlantis Discloses The Star Beings And Earth's Ancient Mystical History. This Book Reveals The Truth About The Source And Creation Of Everything, The Various Extraterrestrial Races, The Formation And Destruction Of Lemuria And Atlantis, And Earth's Mystery Schools And Secret Societies. Absorb Mystical Teachings...
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  • Indus Valley Civilization: A Quick Glance to the Indus Valley Civilization (The History and Legacy of Ancient India's Most Influential Powers) by Townsley, Drew
    Drew Townsley

    Indus Valley Civilization: A Quick Glance to the Indus Valley Civilization (The History and Legacy of Ancient India's Most Influential Powers)

    The dynasty that came to power in the late 4th century bce is known today as the mauryan dynasty, and although the ruling family was short-lived and their power was ephemeral, its influence resonated for several subsequent centuries and spread as far east as...
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  • Mayan Civilization: An Essay on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization (Explore the History and Mystery of the Ancient Mayan Ruins) by Guzman, Cherly
    Cherly Guzman

    Mayan Civilization: An Essay on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization (Explore the History and Mystery of the Ancient Mayan Ruins)

    Are you interested in learning what our ancestors studied, built, and how they entertained themselves?Do you find the internet to be an overwhelming place and want all the information compiled into one convenient location?I have studied the mayan civilization and have come to the...
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  • The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History by Downham Moore, Alison M.
    Alison M. Downham Moore

    The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History

    Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme...
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  • Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume II by Arnold, Jafe
    Jafe Arnold

    Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume II

    A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals announced the discovery of a new continent they called "Eurasia", a sprawling landmass wedged between Europe and Asia fated...
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  • Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Newitz, Annalee
    Annalee Newitz

    Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

    Author: Annalee NewitzISBN-10: 1665115629ISBN-13: 9781665115629Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2021Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs
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  • Technology: New Trajectories in Law by Crofts, Penny
    Penny Crofts

    Technology: New Trajectories in Law

    Placing contemporary technological developments in their historical context, this book argues for the importance of law in their regulation. Technological developments are focused upon overcoming physical and human constraints. There are no normative constraints inherent in the quest for ongoing and future technological development....
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  • Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking by Donati, Pierpaolo
    Pierpaolo Donati

    Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003146698, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of...
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  • The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami by Okawa, Ryuho
    Ryuho Okawa

    The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami

    There used to be the God called Ame-no-Mioya-Gami in Japan. He came from the Andromeda Galaxy to land on the foothills of Mt. Fuji about 30,000 years ago. Using his spiritual abilities, the author and spiritual leader Ryuho Okawa explored the mystery of the...
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  • BC to 1066: An early history of eastern Sussex and the Battle area from the Dawn of Time to the death of Edward the Confessor by Foord, Keith
    Keith Foord

    BC to 1066: An early history of eastern Sussex and the Battle area from the Dawn of Time to the death of Edward the Confessor

    The book covers from time immemorial until 1066 the history of eastern Sussex which may mistakenly appear to have been a bit of a backwater. It was shaped by its geology and its geography, with the English Channel to the south, the deep Andreadsweald...
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  • A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: An Exploration of Sacred History by Heiser, James D.
    James D. Heiser

    A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: An Exploration of Sacred History

    What is history? For many post-modern men-maltreated and miseducated by substandard pseudo-educators in the holding pens which society calls "public schools"-history is just a string of disassociated events which reduces to a catalog of 'one blasted thing after another.' Taught to avoid any awareness...
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  • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Standage, Tom
    Tom Standage

    A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

    From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Hailed for their "colorful, smooth, and wonderfully engaging" writing (Smithsonian), Tom Standage's fleet-footed...
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  • New Age Bible of Mother Africa (Vol.2): Black Consciousness, Ancient Alien Gods, Metaphysics, Kemetic Spirituality & African Origins of Civilization by Lindsey-Billingsley, T.
    T. Lindsey-Billingsley

    New Age Bible of Mother Africa (Vol.2): Black Consciousness, Ancient Alien Gods, Metaphysics, Kemetic Spirituality & African Origins of Civilization

    A scientific exploration into our extraterrestrial ancestors and their creation us. The Facts presented in the manual, are to support the idea of "Intelligent Design of Life on Earth". Establishing the Creation of Mankind, African Origins of Humanity and Civilization. This no-nonsense philosophical study...
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  • Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy) by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy)

    *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Mbuti *Includes ancient descriptions of pygmies and theories about their evolution. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. " T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness about them that struck me as very remarkable." - French-American...
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  • How Capitalism Ends: History, Ideology and Progress by Paxton, Steve
    Steve Paxton

    How Capitalism Ends: History, Ideology and Progress

    While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient...
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  • We, Hominids: A Journey Into What Makes Us Human by Westerman, Frank
    Frank Westerman

    We, Hominids: A Journey Into What Makes Us Human

    A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human. In this charming, thought-provoking book, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental questions: Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting...
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  • The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Mukherjee, Siddhartha
    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public...
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  • The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Skeie, Tore
    Tore Skeie

    The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

    "Skeie's account of ruthless conflict, political intrigue, and diplomatic machinations reads like a real-life Game of Thrones--without the dragons. Medieval history buffs will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly Thrilling history provides a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly...
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  • Lost: A History of Disappearances by Rayborn, Tim
    Tim Rayborn

    Lost: A History of Disappearances

    Go behind the crime scene tape and investigate the mysterious missing persons cases that have left experts baffled with Lost.The Bermuda Triangle. Amelia Earhart. The Mary Celeste. D.B. Cooper. The lost colony of Roanoke. The Lindbergh baby. With puzzling disappearances that bewilder investigators to...
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  • This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures by Cider Mill Press
    Cider Mill Press

    This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures

    From the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago? This...
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  • Athens: City of Wisdom by Clark, Bruce
    Bruce Clark

    Athens: City of Wisdom

    A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one...
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  • Western Civilization in a Global Context: The Modern Age: Sources and Documents by Campbell, Kenneth L.
    Kenneth L. Campbell

    Western Civilization in a Global Context: The Modern Age: Sources and Documents

    Western Civilization in a Global Contextis a source collection that introduces a comparative element to the study of Western civilization, offering students an opportunity to explore non-Western perspectives. An interesting and provocative set of readings are included, from a range of primary sources, including...
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  • Classical World: All That Matters by Blanshard, Alastair
    Alastair Blanshard

    Classical World: All That Matters

    Modern Western European culture would have been impossible without the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The disciplines of philosophy, drama, history, and science all owe an immense debt to these two Mediterranean cultures. At the same time, there are aspects of this legacy...
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  • Panorama of the Classical World by Spivey, Nigel
    Nigel Spivey

    Panorama of the Classical World

    Here is a new and imaginative approach to the era in which Western civilization was born. "Panorama of the Classical World is a thorough-and thoroughly accessible--synthesis of the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, spanning the period from Late Geometric Greece (ca. 700 B.C) to...
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  • Order and History, Volume 4 (Cw17): The Ecumenic Age Volume 17 by Voegelin, Eric
    Eric Voegelin

    Order and History, Volume 4 (Cw17): The Ecumenic Age Volume 17

    Order and History, Eric Voegelin's five-volume study of how human and divine order are intertwined and manifested in history, has been widely acclaimed as one of the great intellectual achievements of our age.In the fourth volume, The Ecumenic Age, Voegelin breaks with the course...
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  • Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) by Till, Barry
    Barry Till

    Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)

    During the brief Meiji period, Japan underwent an astonishing metamorphosis from feudal state to modern industrial and military power. The nation's policy of isolationism, sakoku (closed country) initiated in 1639, was abruptly challenged in 1853 when Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay...
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  • Standard of Ur by Collins, Sarah
    Sarah Collins

    Standard of Ur

    The Standard of Ur is one of the most famous objects to be discovered from ancient Mesopotamia. It was unearthed in a tomb in 1927 by Leonard Woolley during his archaeological excavations of the 'Royal Cemetery' of Ur located in present-day Iraq.Ur, one of...
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  • Century of Collapse - Why Civilizations Fall by Strom, Andrew
    Andrew Strom

    Century of Collapse - Why Civilizations Fall

    IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL LEARN: Why a "century of collapse" is baked in the cake for our civilization over the next 100 years. Why climate change is not even needed to bring about our demise. (Any climate issues come on top of what...
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  • How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catast by Cassidy, Cody
    Cody Cassidy

    How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catast

    A detailed guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive History is the most dangerous place on earth. From dinosaurs the size of locomotives to meteors big enough to sterilize the planet, from famines to...
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  • Mongol Empire: The Man Behind the Mongol Empire (The History and Legacy of the Mongol Empire's Capital): A Captivating Guide to an It by Corbett, Janet
    Janet Corbett

    Mongol Empire: The Man Behind the Mongol Empire (The History and Legacy of the Mongol Empire's Capital): A Captivating Guide to an It

    Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia.Under his...
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  • Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria by McCalman, Janet
    Janet McCalman

    Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria

    It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free, ' uncontaminated by the convict stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than half of all those transported to Van Diemen's Land...
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  • Knife Bible: History & Modern Knowledgevolume 1 by Gis, A. J. Cardenal Ict
    A. J. Cardenal Ict Gis

    Knife Bible: History & Modern Knowledge Volume 1

    "Humans are vulnerable creatures by nature. A willingness to survive, to fight, not flee... is what drove to us to create the knife. Knives gave us the ability to become warriors, to conquer fear, and establish ourselves as the dominant species on this planet....
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  • The World: A Family History of Humanity by Montefiore, Simon Sebag
    Simon Sebag Montefiore

    The World: A Family History of Humanity

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families - From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker,...
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  • Imagining Atlantis by Ellis, Richard
    Richard Ellis

    Imagining Atlantis

    Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to...
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  • Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950 by Gantner, Eszter
    Eszter Gantner

    Interurban Knowledge Exchange in Southern and Eastern Europe, 1870-1950

    Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "backward" and "delayed." Allegedly, they had no alternative but to follow the role model of the metropolises, of London, Paris or Vienna. This edited volume fundamentally questions this assumption. It shows that cities...
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  • An International Rediscovery of World War One: Distant Fronts by McCormick, Robert B.
    Robert B. McCormick

    An International Rediscovery of World War One: Distant Fronts

    International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this...
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  • The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age by Raab, Nigel A.
    Nigel A. Raab

    The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age

    The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or...
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  • Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Goldstein, Jacob
    Jacob Goldstein

    Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

    The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In...
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