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  • The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons by Van Boven, Erica
    Erica Van Boven

    The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons

    Departing from the present need for cultural models within the public debate, this volume offers a new contribution to the study of cultural icons. From the traditional religious icon to the modern mass media icon, from the recognizable visual icon to the complex entanglement...
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  • The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans by Charles River
    Charles River

    The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 million years ago (mya) to just over 12,000 years ago, and it was an epoch of enormous change on Earth, mainly characterized by climate changes involving fluctuations between periods of...
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  • The Julian Jaynes Collection by Kuijsten, Marcel
    Marcel Kuijsten

    The Julian Jaynes Collection: Biography, Articles, Lectures, Interviews, Discussion

    Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes's revolutionary theory on the origin of consciousness or the "modern mind" remains as relevant and thought-provoking as when it was first proposed. Supported by recent discoveries in neuroscience, Jaynes's ideas force us to rethink conventional views of human history...
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  • Work on Myth by Blumenberg, Hans
    Hans Blumenberg

    Work on Myth

    In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Work on Myth is in five parts. The first two analyze the characteristics of myth and the stages in the...
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  • Civilizations: The Influence of the Shepherd and the Farmers by Angelucci, Augusto
    Augusto Angelucci

    Civilizations: The Influence of the Shepherd and the Farmers

    In CIVILIZATIONS, Augusto Angelucci explores the connections and commonalities occurring between diverse, geographically separated ancient cultures and analyzes their influence in the development of modern civilization. In the author's own words: "Although several authors like Jacques, Attali, Brian Fagan, J.P. Mallory, and Richard Rudgley...
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  • Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Slingerland, Edward
    Edward Slingerland

    Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

    An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization--and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised).While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered...
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  • The Intent of Toynbee's History: a Cooperative Appraisal by Gargan, Edward T. 1922-
    Edward T. 1922- Gargan

    The Intent of Toynbee's History: a Cooperative Appraisal

    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,...
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  • The Evolution of Culture; the Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome by White, Leslie a. 1900-1975
    Leslie a. 1900-1975 White

    The Evolution of Culture; the Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome

    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,...
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  • King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great by Waters, Matt
    Matt Waters

    King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great

    The Persian Empire was the world's first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in the 330s...
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  • What Happened After Mañjuśrī Migrated to China?: The Sinification of the Mañjuśrī Faith and the Globalization of the Wutai Cult by Chen, Jinhua
    Jinhua Chen

    What Happened After Mauśrī Migrated to China?: The Sinification of the Mauśrī Faith and the Globalization of the Wutai Cult

    The chapters in this book explore the transcultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional contexts and connections between the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, Mount Wutai and the veneration of Mauśrī that contributed to the establishment and successive transformations of the cult centered on Mount Wutai - and reduplications elsewhere. The...
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  • The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion by Jacobsen, Thorkild
    Thorkild Jacobsen

    The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion

    A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East "A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside, backed at every point by meticulous scholarship and persistent adherence to original texts....
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  • Giles of Rome's on Ecclesiastical Power: A Medieval Theory of World Government by Dyson, R. W.
    R. W. Dyson

    Giles of Rome's on Ecclesiastical Power: A Medieval Theory of World Government

    Giles of Rome was the archbishop of Bourges and a loyal champion of Pope Boniface VIII during the Franco-papal crisis of 1296-1303. On Ecclesiastical Power was written at the height of the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of France and...
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  • Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction by Clark, Gillian
    Gillian Clark

    Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction

    Late antiquity saw the barbarian invasions overrun the western Roman empire and Persian and Arab armies end Roman rule over the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean. Was late antiquity therefore merely a time of decline? In this vibrant and compact introduction, Gillian...
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  • The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Dalley, Stephanie
    Stephanie Dalley

    The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognized in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary...
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  • China in World History by Ropp, Paul S.
    Paul S. Ropp

    China in World History

    Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the...
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  • The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
    Xenophon

    The Persian Expedition

    In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne....
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  • The Lost Language of Symbolism: an Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-tales, Folklore, and Mythologies; v.1 by Bayley, Harold
    Harold Bayley

    The Lost Language of Symbolism: an Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-tales, Folklore, and Mythologies; v.1

    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,...
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  • The Impact of Islam by Scott, Emmett
    Emmett Scott

    The Impact of Islam

    When Islam comes to a land, what happens? In this sweeping and thorough historical overview, Emmet Scott answers that question definitively, illuminating the shockingly devastating effects of Islamic encroachment upon Europe during the Middle Ages. This is history with all the timeliness of today's...
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  • The Book of the City of Ladies by De Pizan, Christine
    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...
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  • City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization by Carrasco, David
    David Carrasco

    City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

    At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice,...
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  • Bread and Circuses: Alcohol and Other Drugs on the Job by Brantlinger, Patrick
    Patrick Brantlinger

    Bread and Circuses: Alcohol and Other Drugs on the Job

    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins,...
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  • Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia Through the Looking Glass by Morgan, Janett
    Janett Morgan

    Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia Through the Looking Glass

    "The Greek's view of Persia and the Persians changed radically throughout the archaic and classical period as the Persians turned from noble warriors to peacock-loving cross-dressers. This book traces the development of a range of responses to the Achaemenids and their empire through a...
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  • Liquid Life by Bauman, Zygmunt
    Zygmunt Bauman

    Liquid Life

    'Liquid life' is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The most acute...
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  • The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Flannery, Kent
    Kent Flannery

    The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

    Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate...
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  • Sumer and the Sumerians by Crawford, Harriet
    Harriet E. W. Crawford

    Sumer and the Sumerians

    Mesopotamia produced one of the best-known ancient civilizations, with a literate, urban culture and highly-developed political institutions. Harriet Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region over a period of two millennia (from 3800 to 2000 BC) in this fully revised...
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  • Ancient African History Primer by Winters, Clyde
    Clyde Winters

    Ancient African History Primer

    The "Primer" gives information that spans the millennia and the world to illuminate and supply the reader a thought provoking and comprehensive record of the life of the homo sapiens Africanus, i.e., the Black and African people on the earth. This is the only...
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  • A History of Science, Magic and Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe by Marrone, Steven P.
    Steven P. Marrone

    A History of Science, Magic and Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe

    A History of Science, Magic and Belief is an exploration of the origins of modern society through the culture of the middle ages and early modern period. By examining the intertwined paths of three different systems for interpreting the world, it seeks to create...
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  • Mesopotamian Chronicles by Glassner, Jean-Jacques
    Jean-Jacques Glassner

    Mesopotamian Chronicles

    Author: Jean-Jacques GlassnerISBN-10: 1589830903ISBN-13: 9781589830905Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2004Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.33w x 0.94d
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  • The Bible Is African History by Sinclair, Neil M. C.
    Neil M. C. Sinclair

    The Bible Is African History

    Neil M. C. Sinclair's provocative but captivating text Is the Bible African History stripped away centuries of imperialism, restoring the African voice to the historical canon. Therein, Sinclair explained how the Department of Egyptology intentionally silenced the Africanisms that prove the Bible was actually...
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  • Roman History: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Rome, Including the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantium by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Roman History: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Rome, Including the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantium

    If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: The Roman Republic: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, SPQR and Roman Politicians Such as Julius...
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  • Hammurabi: A Captivating Guide to the Sixth King of the First Babylonian Dynasty, Including the Code of Hammurabi by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Hammurabi: A Captivating Guide to the Sixth King of the First Babylonian Dynasty, Including the Code of Hammurabi

    Explore the Captivating History of HammurabiThe story of Hammurabi is the story of forty-three years jampacked with conquest, temple and wall building, irrigation efforts, and lawmaking, but it's also a story of broken relations and rising and falling empires.It's a story of betrayal and...
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  • Maya Civilization: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Maya Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

    Discover the remarkable history of the Maya Civilization...For more than one thousand years, the Maya people dominated areas of Central America and modern-day Mexico and made important advances in architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Then, after the Spanish occupation in the sixteenth century, Maya...
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  • The Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's Biggest Cities: The History and Legacy of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's Biggest Cities: The History and Legacy of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan

    *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingWhen one thinks of the world's first cities, Sumer, Memphis, and Babylon are some of the first to come to mind, but if the focus then shifts to India, then Harappa and Mohenjo-daro will...
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  • Assyrian Empire: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Assyrian Empire: A History from Beginning to End

    Assyrian EmpireThe Assyrian Empire was the largest, most powerful, and longest-lasting in the ancient world. It included lands that comprise modern Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Cyprus as well as large parts of modern Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, and...
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  • Sumer: The History of the Cities and Culture that Established Ancient Mesopotamia's First Civilization by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    Sumer: The History of the Cities and Culture that Established Ancient Mesopotamia's First Civilization

    *Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time...
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  • Black Wall Street: The History of the Greenwood District Before the Tulsa Race Riot by Charles River
    Charles River

    Black Wall Street: The History of the Greenwood District Before the Tulsa Race Riot

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingIn the wake of the Civil War, African Americans attained freedom from chattel slavery, but continued to suffer discrimination both legal in the form of Jim Crow laws and de facto in the continued perception among the vast...
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  • Inca Empire: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Inca Empire: A History from Beginning to End

    Discover the remarkable history of the Inca Empire...In the space of less than one hundred years, the Inca people expanded from being a small kingdom in the highlands of Peru to becoming one of the largest and most powerful empires in the Americas. At...
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  • Aztec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Aztec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

    Discover the remarkable history of the Aztec Civilization...The Aztec Empire dominated Mesoamerica for a relatively short time-less than one hundred years-but it is remembered today more than other ancient cultures in the region which sustained for much longer. Partly that is because this was...
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  • Chinese Culture: Its Humanity and Modernity by Qian, Suoqiao
    Suoqiao Qian

    Chinese Culture: Its Humanity and Modernity

    Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influence, there has been significant interest in learning the Chinese language around the world. While we constantly hear about China in political and economic...
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  • Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity by Giddens, Anthony
    Anthony Giddens

    Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity

    Anthony Giddens has been described as 'the most important English social philosopher of our time'. Over twenty-five years, and even more books, he has established himself as the most widely-read and widely-cited social theorist of his generation. His ideas have profoundly influenced the writing...
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  • Aztec: A Captivating Guide to Aztec History and the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Aztec: A Captivating Guide to Aztec History and the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan

    Explore the Captivating History and Mythology of the Aztec Nothing remains of the ancient Mesoamerican civilization who called themselves the Mexica, better known to us as the Aztecs. Nothing except for their remarkable story.In this book, we discuss their enigmatic origins and how the...
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  • Incas: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Inca Empire and Civilization by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Incas: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Inca Empire and Civilization

    Explore the Captivating History of the Incas One of the most notable ancient cultures of South America is undoubtedly the Inca Civilization. They once ruled over the largest empire in South America. Not only that - their empire was also the largest in the...
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  • The Etruscans and the First Romans: The History and Legacy of the Civilizations that Fought for Control of Italy by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Etruscans and the First Romans: The History and Legacy of the Civilizations that Fought for Control of Italy

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "These people of Greek descent were called Etruscans, and it has been discovered that they had advanced so far in civilization, that they afterwards gave many of their customs to the city of Rome when it came...
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  • The Decline of the West by Spengler, Oswald
    Oswald Spengler

    The Decline of the West

    Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century...
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  • Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship by Porter, Andrew
    Andrew Porter

    Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship

    How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using findings from the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and offers alternative perspectives better aligned with ancient epic performance realities and modern...
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  • The Evolution of Culture; the Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome by White, Leslie a. 1900-1975
    Leslie a. 1900-1975 White

    The Evolution of Culture; the Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome

    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,...
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  • Doggerland: The History of the Land that Once Connected Great Britain to Continental Europe by Charles River
    Charles River

    Doggerland: The History of the Land that Once Connected Great Britain to Continental Europe

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingWell beyond the breadth of human existence, major land masses have through the ages reformed into disparate configurations on an inevitable path toward apocalyptic continental collisions. Within that process, our present tectonic reality shows no sign of slowing....
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  • After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies by Schwartz, Glenn M.
    Glenn M. Schwartz

    After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies

    From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work...
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  • Ancient Mesopotamia by Pollock, Susan
    Susan Pollock

    Ancient Mesopotamia

    This is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first flourescence of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. The approach is explicitly anthropological, drawing on contemporary theoretical perspectives to enrich our understanding...
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  • Civilization and Its Discontents (The Standard) by Freud, Sigmund
    Sigmund Freud

    Civilization and Its Discontents (The Standard)

    Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century...
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