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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...- $35.00
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Vendor: Captivating History
The Persian Empire: A Captivating Guide to the History of Persia, Starting from the Ancient Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian Empires to
Explore the Captivating History of the Persian EmpireStudents of ancient history are well aware of the Persians. A still-present cultural and linguistic group, the Persians are the founders of today's modern-day nation of Iran. They trace their roots back to the Aryans of Northern...- $29.99
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Vendor: Christine De Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to...- $15.00
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Vendor: Gerald Massey
Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World [Two Volumes In One]
2014 Reprint of Original 1907 Edition Two Volumes in One]. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Massey was one of the first Egyptologists in modern times to suggest that with the final eclipse of the old Land of...- $24.04
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Vendor: John Darwin
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their empire-building created the world we know today....- $24.00
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Vendor: Will Durant
Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern...- $18.99
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Vendor: John Julius Norwich
A Short History of Byzantium
"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recounts in a style that consistently entertains." --The New York Times Book Review In this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history of Byzantium, John...- $21.00
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Vendor: Heather E. Quinlan
Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19
Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that...- $29.95
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Vendor: Orion Starfire
Aryanity: Forbidden History of the Aryan Race
Reader beware, the information within this treatise is of a nature known in toto only to a handful of people in this world. Amongst the information within this treatise is of the most esoteric and occult nature concerning Atlantis the ancient Aryan race and...- $19.95
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Vendor: William N. Goetzmann
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and...- $35.00
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Vendor: Richard J. Murff
Drunk as Lords
We've always been soaks and boozers, convinced that a magic elixir would make us taller, charming and just a little less gross. Then we hard wired that bad idea into society.Drunk as Lords is a hilarious ramble through the What, How and Why of...- $25.99
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Vendor: Captivating History
Assyrian History: A Captivating Guide to the Assyrians and Their Powerful Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
Explore the Captivating History of the Assyrian EmpireLocated in modern-day Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is where it all began. It's the part of the world where some 6,000 years ago people finally said goodbye to their...- $29.99
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Vendor: Andrew Collins
Atlantis in the Caribbean: And the Comet That Changed the World
An in-depth investigation of the mounting evidence that Atlantis was located in the Bahamas and Caribbean, near Cuba in particular - Explains how Atlantis was destroyed by a comet, the same comet that formed the mysterious Carolina Bays - Reveals evidence of complex urban...- $20.00
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Vendor: Tan Books
The Story of Civilization Teacher's Manual: 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...- $19.95
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Vendor: Philip C. Almond
The Devil: A New Biography
"Although the Devil still 'lives' in modern popular culture, for the past 250 years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual thought. That life could not be thought or imagined without him, that he was a part of the everyday,...- $32.95
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Vendor: Carlos M. N. Eire
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted...- $26.95
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Vendor: Cassiodorus
The Variae: The Complete Translation
Cassiodorus--famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity--spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that gave witness to the sixth-century Mediterranean,...- $34.95
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Vendor: Frank Joseph
Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America: The Lost Kingdoms of the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippians, and Anasazi
The examination of four great civilizations that existed before Columbus's arrival in North America offers evidence of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds - Describes the cultural splendor, political might, and incredibly advanced technology of these precursors to our modern age -...- $24.99
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Vendor: Bernhard Maier
The Celts: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
Now in its second edition, this comprehensive history of the Celts draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence to provide a comprehensive and colourful overview from origins to the present. Divided into three parts, the first covers the continental Celts in prehistory and...- $27.95
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Vendor: Brian Fagan
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing--not as sport but as sustenance--archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element...- $19.00
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Vendor: Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 3
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. Sceptical about Christianity, sympathetic to the barbarian invaders and the Byzantine Empire, constantly aware of how political leaders...- $28.00
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Vendor: Michael Royea
Southwestern Adventure: In the Footsteps of First Peoples: Mogollon, Hohokam, Salado and Sinagua (A travel and reference guide)
A travel and reference guide to ancient Arizona and New Mexico that's fun, exciting, and feels like a realistic trip into ancient history.Southwestern Adventure is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers 41 archaeological sites and museums, and Part 2 examines the history, culture,...- $22.99
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Vendor: John Locke
Second Treatise of Government (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
The Second Treatise of Government outlines John Locke's theory of civil society. Locke begins by describing the state of nature, and argues that all men are created equal in the state of nature by God. From this, he goes on to explain the hypothetical...- $39.95
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Vendor: Eric H. Cline
Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., an accessible primer to the archaeologist's craft An archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Eric H. Cline has conducted fieldwork around the world, from Greece and Crete to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. In Digging...- $12.95
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Vendor: Meredith F. Small
Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions--from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency--shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city--with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday--come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the...- $27.95
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Vendor: Mark Vidler
Sacred Geometry of the Earth: The Ancient Matrix of Monuments and Mountains
Identifies the patterns of our planet's design within the natural landscape - Explains the geometry inherent in the mountains and coasts on all continents - Reveals how ancient monuments were built to reflect and enhance the Earth's design, often connecting sites around the world...- $18.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn,...- $12.99
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Vendor: J. Douglas Kenyon
Ghosts of Atlantis: How the Echoes of Lost Civilizations Influence Our Modern World
An intensive investigation into the evidence for a forgotten fountainhead of civilization lost at the end of the last ice age - Reveals evidence of advanced ancient technology, anomalous ancient maps, time travel, crystal science, ancient Armageddon, and Atlantis in the Bible - Explores...- $25.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Roth
The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C. - A.D.235)
Relying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics: supply needs and rations; packs, trains...- $58.00
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Vendor: Arthur Herman
The Idea of Decline in Western History
Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula...- $32.95
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Vendor: Richard Snow
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
A fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford, the Model-T, and the invention of the American car industry in the early twentieth century that "will make you rethink the man whose legacy sits in your garage" (Parade). From the acclaimed popular historian Richard...- $20.00
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Vendor: David Hatcher Childress
Lost Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific
Was there once a continent in the Pacific called Lemuria or Pacifica by ecologists, and Mu or Pan by the mystics? There is now ample mythological, geological and archaeological evidence to 'prove' that an advanced and ancient civilisation once lived in the central Pacific....- $16.95
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Vendor: Ahmed Osman
The Egyptian Origins of King David and the Temple of Solomon
An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon - Identifies King David as Pharaoh Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty and David's son Solomon as Pharaoh Amenhotep, Tuthmosis's successor - Shows how the...- $18.00
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Vendor: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Tangible Things: Making History Through Objects
In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the...- $52.00
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Vendor: Fernand Braudel
A History of Civilizations
Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.Author: Fernand BraudelISBN-10: 0140124896ISBN-13: 9780140124897Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage:...- $25.00
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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...- $22.97
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Vendor: Barbara Scalvini
Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era
Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a veritable encyclopedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics. Aristotle's astonishing range and depth made...- $39.95
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Vendor: Captivating History
The Black Death: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Pandemic in Medieval Europe and Human History
If you want to discover the captivating history of The Black Death, then keep reading...The Black Death was the first recorded pandemic in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. All across the continent, people learned just how gruesome and horrific disease could...- $29.99
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Vendor: Eric Chaline
Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History
"Uncovers some of the most interesting stories of how animals ... have impacted human civilization in economic, political, and industrial history. This is an original approach that links the biological sciences to the social sciences and students and general readers will find many interesting...- $19.95
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Vendor: Simon Starr
Book of the Glory of the Black Race
Book of the Glory of the Black Race is a book written by Al-Jahiz, who was a famous Afro-Iraqi scholar, believed to have been of East African descent and an acclaimed prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu'tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics....- $22.34
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Vendor: Lee Cummings
The Negro Question Part 5 Joseph and the 12th dynasty of Egypt
This book gives indisputable evidence that the 12th dynasty of Egypt and Pharaoh Amenhetet is the Egyptian dynasty that contains the famine story. I will also in detail prove that the 18th dynasty of Egypt is the Exodus story along with Thutmose 1 as...- $9.99
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Vendor: Ian Morris
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
The best-selling author of Why the West Rules--for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during...- $29.95
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Vendor: Peter Thompson
Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World
Seeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets:...- $29.95
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Vendor: Aeschylus
Greek Tragedy
Three masterpieces of classical tragedy Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in one perfect introductory volume. This volume also includes extracts from Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs and a...- $17.00
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The Wonderful Century: the Age of New Ideas in Science and Invention
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Dominic Lieven
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE...- $40.00
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Vendor: Oswald Spengler
The Decline of the West, Vol. I: Form and Actuality
"The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself...- $16.95
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Vendor: Carter Godwin Woodson
The Mis-Education of the Negro
An Unabridged Edition to include a Foreword by the Author and all Eighteen Chapters with Appendix: The Seat of the Trouble - How We Missed the Mark - How We Drifted Away from the Truth - Education under Outside Control - The Failure to...- $7.97
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Vendor: Michael Walsh
The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something...- $25.99
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Vendor: Geoffrey Ashe
Eden in the Altai: The Prehistoric Golden Age and the Mythic Origins of Humanity
Reveals how humanity's first advanced culture originated in the Altai-Baikal region of southern Siberia - Explores how this prehistoric culture is the source of the pervasive mythic symbolism of the number 7, found in ancient cosmologies and myths around the world - Traces the...- $18.00
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