History - Civilization

BabylonOf all the cities of ancient Mesopotamia, Babylon is virtually the only one which is still remembered today. The very word Babylon has entered the lexicon of popular understanding as a synonym for decadence and wealth. But what do we really know about the...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In popular culture, the term Neanderthal is used as a colloquial insult for a degenerate or someone perceived as stupid. This seems to have been the case even from the first recognition of...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In March 1868 in a rock shelter in southwestern France, railroad workers came across relatively modern looking human skulls, flint tools and animal bones. To investigate the limestone cliff shelter, the French geologist...

This classic book on cataclysmic pole shifts first appeared in 1967 when it was an instant bestseller. Quickly it fell out of print, but it is now back in this deluxe edition. The book inspired the popular 1976 book The HAB Theory, about a...

"A little over four decades ago... a monumental literary classic entitled MYSTERIES OF TIME AND SPACE was first published. Its author, the prolific, legendary, not to mention one of the most tireless, pioneering investigative journalists in the 'truth is out there' field of all...

In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during the late fifth and fourth millennia B.C. They radically reassess the chronological framework for...

Regarded as the leading philosopher of British Fascism, Raven Thomson was greatly influenced by Oswald Spengler's cyclic theory of history, However, in Civilization As Divine Superman, Thomson rejects Spengler's pessimism on the future of the West, and suggests that culture-man has the option of...

One of the greatest fallacies of the 'modern world' is the notion of 'progress'. We imagine the entirety of history as culminating in a Darwinian march toward Western Civilisation. We think of our 'progressive values' of liberalism, self-indulgence, materialism, universal human rights, multiculturalism... to...

Explora la Fascinante Historia de los Incas Una de las culturas antiguas más notables de Sudamérica es, sin lugar a dudas, la civilización inca. Reinaron sobre el imperio más grande de Sudamérica; no solo eso, su imperio era también el más grande del mundo...

Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. It was written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Civilization"). Exploring what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for...

Discover the remarkable history of The Sumerians...The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around five thousand years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed-these were the first city-builders, the...

ITALY AND HER INVADERS PART FIVE FRANKISH INVASIONS. THE FRANKISH EMPIRE A.D. 745-814 THOMAS HODGKIN BOOK VIII. FRANKISH INVASIONS. I. INTRODUCTION. THE MEROVINGIAN KINGS. EARLY FRANKISH HISTORY. II. THE EARLY ARNULFINGS III. PIPPIN OF HERISTAL AND CHARLES MARTEL IV. DUKES OF BAVARIA V. THE...

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work. The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. It summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life and begins with...

Enter the Mysterious World of the Ancient Hittites Are you fascinated by ancient peoples? Do you want to understand the ancient Hittite civilization? If so, Thomas Beckett's The Hittites - The Lost Empire: Everything You Need To Know About The Hittites Of The Ancient...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Out of the Clutches of Rules, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3CHRONOLOGY, critical path, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Slavery: When Sumeria was...

This book contains Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Great Secret", translated into English from the original French by Bernard Miall. Within it, Maeterlinck outlines what he has learned about the occult after spending significant amounts of time in various countries including Egypt, India, and Greece. This...

"Romano-Celtic Art in Northumbria" is an essay by R. G. Collingwood on the subject of early British art, focusing on examples found in northern England. Romano-Celtic culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire after the AD 43 Roman conquest. It began as a...

"Everyday Life in the New Stone, Bronze & Early Iron Ages" is a 1922 work by Marjorie and C. H. Quennel on pre-historic life, looking at primitive society and how we lived and developed long ago. Drawing from a wide range of sources, this...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.Author: Ellsworth HuntingtonISBN-10: 1498174825ISBN-13: 9781498174824Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 18Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.04d

In this short pamphlet, Wells-Barnett spells out and shows us the horrors of Southern lynch law and the rampant inequality that reigned.Author: Ida B. Wells-BarnettISBN-10: 1496092023ISBN-13: 9781496092021Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2014Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Did you ever wonder how and why horseshoes came to be nailed onto a horse's hoof? Neither wild horses nor domesticated horses had hoof protection until very recently. What happened that caused the change and how did it come about? Find out here.Author: David...

*Includes pictures of the sites and depictions of important people and events. *Explains the history of the sites and the theories about their purpose. *Describes the layout of the ancient cities, their important structures, and the theories about the buildings' uses. *Includes footnotes and...

*Includes pictures of Aztec art, ruins, and more. *Includes art depicting Montezuma and important people, places, and event in his life. *Describes daily life for the Aztecs, including the legendary city of Tenochtitlan and their infamous human sacrifice rituals. *Includes Hernan Cort s's Second...

*Includes pictures depicting important people, places, and events. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. The Toltec are one of the most famous Mesoamerican groups in South America, but they are also the most controversial and mysterious. The Toltec have been identified as the group...

Return to the fray of the Afrocentrist movement in the second volume of White Athena. Walter Slack follows up his first volume, which took to task those who claim that the Greeks and others stole their philosophy, science, and culture from black Africans-arguing that...

African Empires presents a comprehensive and in depth analysis of the major empires of the African continent over thousands of years. This book penetrates into the various kingdoms and and rich cultures of Africa including East Africa, West Africa, North Africa, South Africa and...

Constantine Francis Chassebeuf De Volney was born in 1757 at Craon. From his earliest youth, he devoted himself to the search after truth, without being disheartened by the serious studies which alone can initiate us into her secrets. After having become acquainted with the...

The Ennead is one of the most important myths from ancient Egypt. It is the story of King Osiris the Vindicated, the Beloved Enchantress Isis and Horus the Avenger. The story of the Ennead presents the Egyptian view of creation, the struggle between good...

The Homer Code The first part of this book sprang out of my initial discovery that Homer's legendary Island of Thrinacia, and Trenyken in outer Lofoten, Norway, are one and the same. At the time, this discovery was just a minor adjustment to the...

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's biological son, Imam W. D Muhammad at age 67 and his "spiritual son", Minster Louis Farrakhan Muhammad at age 67 overcame the violence and bloodshed that had and has yet ruined the Islamic social, economic and political authority of old...

The Triangle of Trade in the Cradle of Civilization interestingly presents Mesopotamia as the supermarket of the ancient world. Although Sumeria was the nerve center for international trade, it had to import most everything from northern Mesopotamia, namely Armenia. Why have not the Armenians...

The subject of race is a thorn in the side of many Americans, mainly between what we call black and white people. One ever hardly sees a public debate concerning race issues when it concerns Korean Americans, Mexican Americas, Native Americans, Japanese Americans, (in...

My full colored second book, of the sensational trilogy, with unique database explains, how I found many compelling scientific evidences for the existence of Atlantis Civilization. Pseudo scientific field so called "Egyptology", was an important barrier, on the way to the real sunken Atlantis...

LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com Here is the book to learn classical liberalism from the ground up, written by the foremost historian in the Austrian tradition--Ralph Raico. He takes on all comers, disposing of all opponents of the market from Keynesians to Marxists...

LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com Butler Shaffer has, over the course of several years, written 51 wonderful essays observing the dissolution of Western culture and civilization. They have been assembled in the The Wizards of Ozymandias a captivating work full of entertaining epigrams...

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that THE BLACK man has been ruling the earth for billions and trillions of years... and they have built many civilizations on this earth. Even where we are today (North America) once (long in the past) flourished with a...

Author: Bill MillerISBN-10: 1477154035ISBN-13: 9781477154038Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2012Pages: 474Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

Marshall Klarfeld, a CALTECH graduate engineer, benefited greatly from his 50 year career in business and politics. His current pursuit, the History of the ANUNNAKI, has propelled him into the field of ancient archaeology. His research has uncovered what could be a defining moment...

Adam Ferguson, a friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, was among the leading Scottish Enlightenment figures who worked to develop a science of man. He created a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising. He was among...

The Muslims, History and Civilization provides modern perspective of the religion, culture and history of the Islamic world, at a time when that world is undergoing considerable change and is a focus of international study and debate. Most perceptions of Islam have often tended...

A little summary of beer and beer brewing in Ancient Western CivilizationsAuthor: Keith PepperellISBN-10: 1508475075ISBN-13: 9781508475071Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2015Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d

About 12 miles (20 km) from the shores of Lake Titicaca lie the ruins of what was once the site of the greatest city in South America. Thought by some to date back to 15,000 BC when it might have been on the shore...

3rd EDITION.-- Histories that were handed down to me didn't make coherent sense, and they didn't dovetail in any meaningful way. What was in the Bible was not mirrored in other channeled books: not in Course in Miracles, in the Urantia Book, nor in...

Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans apr s) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August, 1845. A book of the D'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the...

In the early 1990's, a statuette was unearthed during archaeological excavations at an ancient pre-historical site in the Maltese Islands. It was a small but very enigmatic statuette, more that 6000 years old, representing two obese women and a small child. The symbolic nature...

This text provides an accessible historical account of how people came to realize that we are on a big spinning ball orbiting the sun. While most of the text naturally focuses on the works of Copernicus and Galileo, several early chapters are devoted to...

The Letter and the Cosmos is a sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet,Author: Laurence de LoozeISBN-10: 1442628537ISBN-13: 9781442628533Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2016Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w...

In this corpus we find the first extensive use of the Akkadian language, in it oldest known dialect, for royal inscriptions.Author: Douglas FrayneISBN-10: 1442623756ISBN-13: 9781442623750Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/1993Pages: 522Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.64lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.05d

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period. For this edition, a new chapter on Dante and his time provides a useful transition to the Renaissance from the...