History - Civilization

This catalogue for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence...

The purpose of our story is to understand the roots of our subconscious programming regarding gender, race, class, religion, and nationality. These are the qualities by which we identify ourselves. They are the constructs by which we live our lives. And yet, our sentimental...

The purpose of our story is to understand the roots of our subconscious programming regarding gender, race, class, religion, and nationality. These are the qualities by which we identify ourselves. They are the constructs by which we live our lives. And yet, our sentimental...

This book offers an important contribution to the comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period, a subject of great contemporary and historical importance. Its overarching theme is Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process, and the chapters in the book recognise,...

This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series concentrates on the Sasanian period. Seizing power from the previous dynasty - the Parthians - the Sasanians ruled Iran and most of the ancient Near East from 224 until 642 CE. They are particularly fascinating...

The Caucasian (Kew Gaz ) Civilization: Started more than 12, 000 Years ago in the Gobekli Tepe to Serve Humanity, This book is the study of the fifty million white Caucasian (Kew Gaz ) Kurds without the country. The Caucasian (Kew Gaz ) people's...

This book is going to be the first to introduce you to the human history seen under a new perspective.The knife is the only tool that never left man's side, from the caves to modern skyscrapers blades shaped the man itself and made possible...

Literate world history took shape during the course of the third millennium BCE chiefly in the Mesopotamian land of Sumer. There is a vast difference between the way secular scholars process this data and the way believers in the Bible can and should process...

This history-rich volume details the sociopolitical, economic, and artistic aspects of African kingdoms from the earliest times to the second half of the 19th century. Africa has a long and fascinating history and is a place of growing importance in the world history curriculum....

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 and anecdotes, as well as enlightening...

When H. G. Wells published this popular history of planet Earth in 1922, the highest off the surface humans had reached was seven miles, barely 37,000 feet; the best guess at the planet's age was merely "more than" 2 billion years; the beginnings of...

With his earlier two series in Egyptology, Gerald Massey turned existing doctrine on its head to argue that not only had Egypt spawned human civilization, but that Egyptian mythology was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs. The culmination of his years at this...

What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of "hero" once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and...

In the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe. So important is Greece to history that figures such as Plato and Socrates are still household names,...

Art, music, literature, philosophy, science, history: how do they all fit together?The Matrix of Western Culture presents a framework for seeing the "big picture." Imagine a grid with these cultural categories on one axis and time, marked in centuries, on the other. The interior...

Survey of the literature that discusses the discovery, history, interpretations and, nature of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Library; their origins and their meaning in Western culture.Author: Margo (Naomi) GrossISBN-10: 1544150180ISBN-13: 9781544150185Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2017Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.02h...

The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind", is a work by H. G. Wells that first appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and...

An Attempt Towards An International Language is the creation of Esperanto, a universal language.Author: Henry Phillips Jr, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (Dr Esperanto)ISBN-10: 1542457297ISBN-13: 9781542457293Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2017Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d

*Includes pictures of Machu Picchu and other important people and places. *Explains the history of the site and the theories about its purpose and abandonment. *Describes the layout of Machu Picchu, its important structures, and the theories about the buildings' uses. In 1911, American...

A History of Freedom of Thought is a history of logic and reason from the times of Ancient Greece until the modern era.Author: J. B. BuryISBN-10: 1541351703ISBN-13: 9781541351707Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2016Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.43d

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...

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....

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. From there, however, the subjugation of...

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...

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

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...