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  • Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths by Parpola, Simo
    Simo Parpola

    Neo-Assyrian Treaties and Loyalty Oaths

    Author: Simo Parpola, Kazuko WatanabeISBN-10: 1575063328ISBN-13: 9781575063324Publisher: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/1988Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.57d
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  • Anarchism Volume One: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism Volume 1 by Graham, Robert
    Robert Graham

    Anarchism Volume One: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism

    Click here for orders in the UK & Europe. Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas is a comprehensive and far-ranging collection of anarchist writings from the classical era to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, this...
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  • Marduk King of Earth: Book Four of the Anunnaki Series by Lessin, Janet Kira
    Janet Kira Lessin

    Marduk King of Earth: Book Four of the Anunnaki Series

    MARDUK: ANUNNAKI KING OF EARTHBy Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology) & Janet Kira Lessin CEO, Aquarian RadioMarduk, Our secret Anunnaki ruler, says he'll make amends for suffering he caused. Anu, legal successor to planet Nibiru King Lahma, signed a treaty with King Alalu who...
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  • Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh by Foerster, Brien
    Brien Foerster

    Akhenaten: The Heretic Pharaoh

    Perhaps the most intriguing of ancient Egypt's rulers, Akhenaten is in many ways also the most mysterious. Loved by those that followed him, and his wife Nefertiti, he was hated by the Amun priesthood, who before and during his childhood held the reigns of...
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  • The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles
    Charles Oman

    The Byzantine Empire

    Using clear and eminently readable prose, Sir Charles Oman describes the rise and fall of a great empire. He begins with the founding of Byzantium by Greek colonists, traces its rise to power and eventual elevation to peer of Rome (and re-christening as Constantinope...
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  • Runes by Findell, Martin
    Martin Findell

    Runes

    Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets that were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. From late antiquity through the early middle ages, peoples across northwestern Europe inscribed runes on gravestones, buildings, jewelry, and...
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  • The Pearl of Khorasan: A History of Herat by Gammell, C. P. W.
    C. P. W. Gammell

    The Pearl of Khorasan: A History of Herat

    The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has...
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  • Uruk: The First City by Liverani, Mario
    Mario Liverani

    Uruk: The First City

    Uruk is the first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southern Mesopotamia, the region providing the earliest evidence in world history related to these seminal developments. Contrasting his approach--influenced by V. Gordan Childe and by Marxist...
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  • Nowruz: Persian New Year on the Silk Road by Saney, Lolo
    Lolo Saney

    Nowruz: Persian New Year on the Silk Road

    Persian New Year Nowruz Traditions Cyrus the Great Scared Silk Road traditions Ancient times childhood multiculturalism multi lingual Nowruz is the celebration of light, hope, and renewal. Nowruz begins on the first day of spring. It is celebrated on March 20, or March 21on...
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  • Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran by Pourshariati, Parvaneh
    Parvaneh Pourshariati

    Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran

    I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation It proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the...
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  • History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective by Ringmar, Erik
    Erik Ringmar

    History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective

    Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues.The volume is...
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  • Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World by Massey, Gerald
    Gerald Massey

    Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World

    This book is an exceptional labour that made the author's life worth living. Comparatively speaking, "A Book of the Beginnings" was written in the dark, "The Natural Genesis" was written in the twilight, whereas "Ancient Egypt" has been written in the light of day....
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  • Homo erectus: The History of the Archaic Humans Who Left Africa and Formed the First Hunter-Gatherer Societies by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    Homo erectus: The History of the Archaic Humans Who Left Africa and Formed the First Hunter-Gatherer Societies

    *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has a history as long as life itself. Anatomically modern humans and all other life that has existed on the planet first came about from the...
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  • Sumerios: Una guía fascinante acerca de la historia sumeria antigua, la mitología sumeria y el imperio mesopotámico de la civili by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Sumerios: Una guía fascinante acerca de la historia sumeria antigua, la mitología sumeria y el imperio mesopotámico de la civili

    Explora la fascinante historia de los sumerios La gran importancia de la cultura sumeria en toda la cultura mundial es evidente y crucial. Esta civilización es la única responsable de algunas de las innovaciones más importantes en prácticamente todos los aspectos básicos para mantener...
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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh: An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Clay, Albert T.
    Albert T. Clay

    The Epic of Gilgamesh: An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

    The Epic of Gilgamesh: An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic: On the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. The Gilgamesh...
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  • The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America by Birch, Jennifer
    Jennifer Birch

    The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America

    The emergence of village societies out of hunter-gatherer groups profoundly transformed social relations and identity formation in every part of the world where such communities formed. Drawing on the latest archaeological data and historical evidence, this volume explores the development of villages in eastern...
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  • This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity Teacher/Student Edition by Christian, David
    David Christian

    This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity Teacher/Student Edition

    "I first became an avid student of David Christian by watching his course, Big History, on DVD, and so I am very happy to see his enlightening presentation of the world's history captured in these essays. I hope it will introduce a wider audience...
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  • Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes by Lascelles, Christopher
    Christopher Lascelles

    Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes

    "Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time."- Gerald Posner, author of God's Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an...
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  • Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia by W. Sauer, Eberhard
    Eberhard W. Sauer

    Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia

    The Sasanian Empire (3rd -7th centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan and from Central Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. This mega-empire withstood powerful opponents in the steppe and expanded further in Late Antiquity, whilst the...
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  • The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives (Learning to Take Risks, Overcoming Anx by Faranda, Frank
    Frank Faranda

    The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives (Learning to Take Risks, Overcoming Anx

    We are driven by fear to reach ever more extreme levels of comfort and safety, but in doing so, we embed fear into our culture, create new sorts of dangers, isolate ourselves from one another, and distance ourselves from the very sources of our...
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  • Uluru: The History and Legacy of the Australian Landmark Considered Sacred by the Local Aborigines by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    Uluru: The History and Legacy of the Australian Landmark Considered Sacred by the Local Aborigines

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe magnificent monolith the locals call "Uluru," situated in the heart of Australia, hovers over a patchy bed of desert poplars and spinifex grasslands. The pleasant, but otherwise unexceptional surroundings of the spellbinding sandstone landform only further accentuates...
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  • The History of the Kurdish People by Mirwaisi, Hamma
    Hamma Mirwaisi

    The History of the Kurdish People

    FINAL EDITION I, Hamma Mirwaisi, was almost 75 years old while updating two of my history books known as 'The History of the Kurdish People, ' which is the same as 'The History of the White People or The Caucasian (Kew Gazî) People of...
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  • A Short History of Babylon by Radner, Karen
    Karen Radner

    A Short History of Babylon

    Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a return to their lost homeland after the sack of Jerusalem in 587...
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  • Analyzing Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the Old Kingdom by Bárta, Miroslav
    Miroslav B疵ta

    Analyzing Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the Old Kingdom

    This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650-2200 BC), the period that saw the construction of eternal monuments such as Djoser's Step Pyramid complex in Saqqara, the...
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  • The Kingdom of Mitanni: The Mysterious History of the Short-Lived Mesopotamian Civilization during the Late Bronze Age by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Kingdom of Mitanni: The Mysterious History of the Short-Lived Mesopotamian Civilization during the Late Bronze Age

    *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe Late Bronze Age Near East (c. 1500-1200 BCE) was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to...
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  • Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science by Rochberg, Francesca
    Francesca Rochberg

    Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

    In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has--but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature"--no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the...
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  • Parthian Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Enemy of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Parthian Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Enemy of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

    Explore the most enduring empire of the ancient Near EastFew nations were able to not only parry but also defeat the mighty Roman Empire, rivaling it in almost all segments. One of those was the Parthian empire, cultural and traditional successor of the more...
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  • The Mycenaeans: A Captivating Guide to the First Advanced Civilization in Ancient Greece by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    The Mycenaeans: A Captivating Guide to the First Advanced Civilization in Ancient Greece

    If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mycenaeans, then keep reading...The Mycenaeans were the first advanced civilization to develop on mainland Greece and were responsible for much of the urban organization and cultural development seen in the early ancient Greeks. The...
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  • The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World: Our Place in Time Volume II by Augustson, Kent
    Kent Augustson

    The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World: Our Place in Time Volume II

    This trilogy provides an appreciation of the diverse four major civilizations that frame our world today-Confucian China, Hindu India, the Muslim Middle East, and the Christian West-from their first meaningful interaction in 1100. This book, in covering 1400-1700, finds remarkably that the major transformative...
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  • Democracy: A User's Guide by Sheldon, Joss
    Joss Sheldon

    Democracy: A User's Guide

    THEY SAY WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. WE ARE FREE AND WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL.But just how "Free" are we? How democratic are our so-called "Democracies"?Is it enough to simply elect our leaders and sit back, helpless, as they rule over us like dictators?...
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  • Mesopotamia: The Truth: what was really happening in the 'cradle of civilisation' by Lawton, Ian
    Ian Lawton

    Mesopotamia: The Truth: what was really happening in the 'cradle of civilisation'

    Ancient Mesopotamia... perhaps the definitive cradle of civilisation. Who discovered its various remains? What did they find? And what does the archaeological and textual evidence tell us about the elements of modern living that were introduced for the first time... as much as 5000...
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  • Paving Our Ways: A History of the World's Roads and Pavements by Lay, Maxwell
    Maxwell Lay

    Paving Our Ways: A History of the World's Roads and Pavements

    Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North...
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  • Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity by West-Harling, Veronica
    Veronica West-Harling

    Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity

    The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna,...
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  • Treasures of World History: The Story of Civilization in 50 Documents by Snow, Peter
    Peter Snow

    Treasures of World History: The Story of Civilization in 50 Documents

    50 of the most fascinating documents in the history of humankind are beautifully reproduced from national archives and museums around the world - with commentary explaining why the documents are so significant, and how they have shaped or changed the course of history. This...
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  • From Stonehenge to Mycenae: The Challenges of Archaeological Interpretation by Barrett, John C.
    John Barrett

    From Stonehenge to Mycenae: The Challenges of Archaeological Interpretation

    This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the worlds that...
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  • Trying to Keep It from Blackfolks by Gordon, B. a.
    B. a. Gordon

    Trying to Keep It from Blackfolks

    Trying to keep it from black folks captures the spirit and history of this country's oppression, systematic racism and brain washing of a generation of people through the eyes of one of the unheard voices of yesterday fatherless generation B.A Gordon. The last of...
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  • The big secret: Knights Templar: The black history of the most mysterious organization in the world by Stephen, John
    John Stephen

    The big secret: Knights Templar: The black history of the most mysterious organization in the world

    At the height of their power, the Knights Templar were the military elite and spearhead of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. They were distinguished knights, whether as warriors or as monks, and were totally dedicated to fighting and dying for their beliefs.The...
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  • Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla by Murray, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Murray

    Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla

    Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to...
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  • Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LXVI (2016) by Chaniotis, Angelos
    Angelos Chaniotis

    Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LXVI (2016)

    SEG LXVI covers newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents from the year 2016, with occasional additions from previous years that have been missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2015 but pertaining to material from 2016.Author: Angelos ChaniotisISBN-10:...
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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

    A 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...
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  • Anunnaki Endgame: The Battle for Earth by Hegland, Tj
    Tj Hegland

    Anunnaki Endgame: The Battle for Earth

    Thru the millennia, there have always been Others here, some watching, some helping, and some obstructing Mankind. We take a look at who they are, and a look at where some of them have lived and some now live, and we again visit the...
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  • Dating the reigns of Xerxes I (496-475), Artaxerxes I (475-425) and Darius II (424-405) by Gertoux, Gerard
    Gerard Gertoux

    Dating the reigns of Xerxes I (496-475), Artaxerxes I (475-425) and Darius II (424-405)

    The pivotal date of 465 BCE for the death of Xerxes has been accepted by historians for many years without notable controversy. However, according to Thucydides, a historian renowned for his high chronological accuracy, Themistocles met Artaxerxes, who had succeeded Xerxes, his father, just...
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  • Birth of the Persian Empire by Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh
    Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

    Birth of the Persian Empire

    Of the great ancient civilizations, that of Persia is the least known and the most enigmatic. This book explores the formation of the first Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Persians. It brings together a multi-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC...
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  • A Short History of the Phoenicians: Revised Edition by Woolmer, Mark
    Mark Woolmer

    A Short History of the Phoenicians: Revised Edition

    Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess...
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  • City and Empire in the Age of the Successors: Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms by Boehm, Ryan
    Ryan Boehm

    City and Empire in the Age of the Successors: Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

    In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors' contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering...
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  • Minoan Civilization: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    Minoan Civilization: A History from Beginning to End

    Discover the remarkable history of the Minoan Civilization...The Minoan Civilization has, since its rediscovery in the early twentieth century by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, been a source of fascination for the modern world. Some have claimed it represents evidence of a matriarchal society given...
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  • The Sapience Curriculum: Teacher's Guide for an Age of Turmoil by Forencich, Frank
    Frank Forencich

    The Sapience Curriculum: Teacher's Guide for an Age of Turmoil

    Have you ever wondered why you and the people around you are suffering? Do you find it strange that you've landed in adulthood in the midst of a planetary crisis with minimal preparation to meet the challenges of today? Have you suspected your education...
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  • The Fate of Homo Sapiens: an Unemotional Statement of the Things That Are Happening to Him Now, and of the Immediate Possibilities Confronting H by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1
    H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1 Wells

    The Fate of Homo Sapiens: an Unemotional Statement of the Things That Are Happening to Him Now, and of the Immediate Possibilities Confronting H

    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 Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation by Hubbard, Arthur
    Arthur Hubbard

    The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation

    Join Arthur Hubbard on an immersive journey into the history of civilization. Written over a century ago, this book is still just as relevant today. Indeed, it was featured in a 2012 documentary titled "Four Horsemen" about civilization and economics.The book is relatively short...
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  • Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany by Hayton, Jeff
    Jeff Hayton

    Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany

    Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternative culture across divided Germany, and punk was a critical constituent of this movement. For young Germans at...
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