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Vendor: Daniel J. Boorstin
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a...- $21.00
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Vendor: Alberto Manguel
A History of Reading
A book for book lovers by a true lover of books! At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted...- $30.00
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Vendor: W. B. J. Williams
The Reality, Mythology, and Fantasies of Unicorns
The Hunt for a Unicorn.The belief in unicorns as magical creatures is one that is rooted deeply in human history. They are featured in myths, legends, and folk tales from multiple cultures across the globe. In this volume, W.B.J. Williams, the author of the...- $15.95
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Vendor: Richard Holloway
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway...- $26.00
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Vendor: Anthony a. Barrett
Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Captivating History
History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire
If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...India is a land of mystery, richness, and deep spiritual discovery. Every facet of this ancient land seems scented with the famous spices that lured European traders to its shores more than...- $29.99
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Ancient China: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty to th
If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading...To understand present-day China, its politics, society, and culture in general, we have to go back to the beginnings of the Chinese civilization.In this book, you will be led on a...- $29.99
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Vendor: Tan Books
The Story of Civilization Activity Book: Volume I - The Ancient World
The Activity Book and companion Teacher's Manual provide a complete review of everything read in The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter, including: - Reading comprehension questions - Narration Exercises - Map Activities - Coloring Pages...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kelly Lapseritis
The Sasquatch Message to Humanity: Conversations with Elder Kamooh
SunB w received and transcribed these messages from an Elder Sasquatch named Kamooh in 2015 while in British Columbia, Canada. The Sasquatch People asked us to disseminate the information as it's a message to the world for us each to do our part to...- $12.12
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Vendor: Anthony Kaldellis
Byzantium Unbound
For a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the diversity of human culture, Byzantium is strangely one of the most maligned and misunderstood civilizations of the past. The way in which history has been...- $17.95
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Vendor: Phillip Campbell
The Story of Civilization Test Book: Volume I - The Ancient World
This test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: Volume I, The Ancient World. With this book, students can test their reading comprehension and further educate themselves on the content found in the text. One quiz corresponds to each chapter...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mark Edward Lewis
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we...- $26.00
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Vendor: Norman Davies
Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
From the bestselling author of Europe: A History comes a uniquely ambitious masterpiece that will thrill fans of lost civilizations While Germany, Italy, France, and England dominate our conceptions of Europe, these modern states are relatively recent constructs. In this brilliant work of historical...- $35.00
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Vendor: Captivating History
Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler
If you want to discover the captivating history of Romania and Vlad the Impaler, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Romania: A Captivating Guide to Romanian History, Including Events Such as the First Roman-Dacian War, Raids of Vlad III Dracula...- $32.99
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Vendor: Viktor Shvets
The Great Rupture: Three Empires, Four Turning Points, and the Future of Humanity
Do we need to be free to be innovative, prosperous, or even happy?The lessons of the last five centuries were unequivocal-without freedom, there could be no prosperity or happiness. However, does this still hold true in the Information Age?Modern technologies are disrupting our societies,...- $29.99
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Vendor: Barney White-Spunner
Berlin: The Story of a City
The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, and reunification of the twentieth century. There has always been a particular fervor about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and a...- $34.95
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Vendor: Paul Cartledge
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
"Mr. Cartledge's command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciation of Thebes is persuasive." --Wall Street Journal "An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account. . . . A masterful book written by a master historian." --Bettany Hughes, bestselling author, Istanbul...- $30.00
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Vendor: Joseph Ratzinger
Western Culture Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues
Well known for his important scholarly contributions to dogmatic theology and biblical commentary, Joseph Ratzinger has also been an insightful, shrewd analyst of political modernity and its discontents. This work reveals Ratzinger's keen insight into the fundamental challenges confronting the twenty-first-century West.The civilizational project...- $17.95
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Vendor: Johan Huizinga
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central...- $8.50
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Vendor: John Ralston Saul
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
With a new Introduction by the author, this "erudite and brilliantly readable book" (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction...- $21.99
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Vendor: David Graeber
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote...- $25.00
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Vendor: Phillip Barlag
Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn't do. But fear not, the truth of...- $19.95
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Vendor: Richard Dixon
The Celestial Hunter
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe eighth part of Roberto Calasso's monumental series on the primal forces of civilization The...- $21.00
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Vendor: Andrew Collins
Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Gekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America
Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world - Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago - Shows...- $24.00
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Vendor: Nicholas Walton
Genoa, 'la Superba': The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower
Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world. It fought bitter battles with its great rival Venice and imprisoned Marco Polo, as the feuding...- $21.50
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Vendor: J. E. Lendon
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World
How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Warwick Ball
The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement, Ideas
A geographical area, not a political entity, the steppe connects the western and eastern parts of the Eurasian land mass. As such, it is always open, subject to constant movement between Asia and Europe. Warwick Ball tells the story of that movement from prehistory...- $29.95
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Vendor: Richard Stoneman
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs of...- $32.00
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Vendor: Marcel Kuijsten
Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes
Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view inherited from Darwin's theory of evolution is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate view of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes's ideas challenge our preconceptions of...- $18.95
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Vendor: Captivating History
Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: A Captivating Guide to Carthage, the Minoans, Phoenicians, Mycenaeans, and Etruscans
If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Mediterranean civilizations, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: Carthage: A Captivating Guide to the Carthaginian Empire and Its Conflicts with the Ancient Greek City-States and the Roman Republic in the Sicilian Wars...- $37.99
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Aztec History: A Captivating Guide to the Aztec Empire, Mythology, and Civilization
Did you know that the Aztecs sacrificed 500 to 700 people every year in order to satisfy Gods?For many years, the Aztecs have captured our imaginations. Stories from the original European invaders combined with unique, awe-inspiring ruins and legends that speak of palaces of...- $29.99
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Vendor: Peter G. Tsouras
Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought...- $19.99
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Vendor: Robert Wright
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning where history will lead us next. In...- $19.00
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Vendor: John Julius Norwich
A History of Venice
As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end...- $27.95
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Vendor: Edith Hamilton
The Roman Way
In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, who was the quintessential...- $15.95
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Vendor: Captivating History
Achaemenid Empire: A Captivating Guide to the First Persian Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great, and How This Empire of Ancient Persia Foug
Did you know that the Achaemenid Persian Empire stretched from North Africa to Central Asia?If ranked by population percentage, the Achaemenid Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire, is the largest Empire the world has ever seen with 44% of the world's population...- $29.99
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Vendor: Gerald Massey
Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World; its Mythology and Hieroglyphs - Both Volumes in One
Gerald Massey's masterwork is presented to readers anew in this splendid new edition, which combines all twelve books plus the appendix into a single volume.A voracious student of Ancient Egypt, Massey's enquiries deepened and widened as years went by. This work, standing at over...- $32.98
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Vendor: Fulton J. Sheen
Communism and the Conscience of the West
Communism and the Conscience of the West revolves around the single, disconcerting idea that Communism, in both its ideological and practical forms, is on the conscience of the Western world. Because the West has broadly lost that spiritual sensibility which made it great, thus...- $34.95
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Vendor: Euripides
Euripides Ten Plays
A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and The Cyclops.Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 0451527003ISBN-13: 9780451527004Publisher:...- $7.95
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Vendor: Gary Lachman
The Secret Teachers of the Western World
This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the little-known modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwaller de Lubicz. Running alongside the mainstream of Western intellectual history there is another current...- $23.00
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Vendor: Duncan Garrow
The World of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is one of the best known, but most misunderstood, monuments in the world. Contrary to common belief, it was not a static, unchanging structure built by shadowy figures or druids. Rather it represents the cumulative achievement of numerous generations who were woven into...- $65.00
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Vendor: William J. Bennett
America: The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition)
A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated."The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important." --Walter IsaacsonA decade ago, William J. Bennett published a...- $29.99
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Vendor: Xaviant Haze
Ancient Giants: History, Myth, and Scientific Evidence from Around the World
Investigates physical evidence, history, and myths to reveal the lost race of giants that once dominated the world - Reveals suppressed archaeological and scientific discoveries supporting the existence of a worldwide race of giants - Examines giant myths and legends from ancient religious texts...- $16.00
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Vendor: Henry Freeman
Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End
The SumeriansA legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and...- $12.99
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Vendor: Graham Hancock
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Two Egypt experts posit a revolutionary theory: The Sphinx and other great Egyptian monuments are older than common history books tell us and are arranged in such a way as to send us a message from the silent past. Graham Hancock...- $20.00
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Vendor: Mary Beard
How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Stephen J. Pyne
Fire: A Brief History
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne--named by Science magazine as "the world's leading authority on...- $24.95
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Vendor: Peter Kingsley
REALITY (New 2020 Edition)
New and updated edition (2020) of this classic book first published in 2004REALITY introduces us to the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies right at the roots of western culture.This is the true story of Parmenides, Empedocles, and those like them: spiritual guides and experts...- $65.00
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Vendor: Viktor Shvets
The Great Rupture: Three Empires, Four Turning Points, and the Future of Humanity
Do we need to be free to be innovative, prosperous, or even happy?The lessons of the last five centuries were unequivocal-without freedom, there could be no prosperity or happiness. However, does this still hold true in the Information Age?Modern technologies are disrupting our societies,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hilda M. Ransome
The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore
No creature has provided man with so much wholesome food as the honey bee. Equally impressive is the number of beliefs and superstitions the industrious insect has inspired. Its honey, which was known to the ancient Greeks as the "food of the Gods," played...- $17.95
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