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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Basbanes, Nicholas A.
    Nicholas A. Basbanes

    On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History

    A Best Book of the Year: Mother Jones - Bloomberg News - National Post - Kirkus In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes--the consummate bibliophile's bibliophile--shows how paper has been civilization's constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural,...
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  • The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Hansen, Drew
    Drew Hansen

    The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation

    On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The...
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  • Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History by Harris, Lee
    Harris

    Civilization and Its Enemies

    Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They...
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  • The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece by Cartledge, Paul
    Paul Cartledge

    The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece

    The Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, and extreme toughness. This book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Sparta, traces the rise and fall of Spartan society and...
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  • The Unnamable Present by Calasso, Roberto
    Roberto Calasso

    The Unnamable Present

    A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's masterwork, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch (originally published in 1983,...
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  • The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional by Fuentes, Agustín
    Agust? Fuentes

    The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional

    A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth? Creativity. It is the secret of what...
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  • The Olmecs: A History from Beginning to End by History, Hourly
    Hourly History

    The Olmecs: A History from Beginning to End

    Discover the remarkable history of The Olmecs...Many ancient civilizations are described as mysterious, but none provide as many puzzles and unanswered questions as the Olmecs. These people arrived in lands near the Gulf of Mexico around 1500 BCE, and they brought with them entirely...
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  • Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings by Öcalan, Abdullah
    Abdullah ﾖcalan

    Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings

    This manifesto is the definitive work of Abdullah calan, crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Here calan outlines a democratic alternative for the Middle East.A criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, calan argues, and turns his eyes to the underlying structures...
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  • The Maori: The History and Legacy of New Zealand's Indigenous People by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Maori: The History and Legacy of New Zealand's Indigenous People

    *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "When one house dies, a second lives." - Maori proverb In 1769, Captain James Cook's historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before...
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  • An Introduction to African Civilizations by Jackson, John G.
    John G. Jackson

    An Introduction to African Civilizations

    2015 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This edition reprints the original publication of 1937 and not later editions. At the time of its publications Jackson's work constituted a new approach to African history,...
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  • The Science of Power by Kidd, Benjamin
    Benjamin Kidd

    The Science of Power

    2014 Reprint of Original 1918 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. According to Kidd, emotion rather than reason is held to be the source of power in life, not knowledge of intellect. The author's distrust of reason...
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  • The Magyars: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Tribes that Established the Kingdom of Hungary by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Magyars: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Tribes that Established the Kingdom of Hungary

    *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Having crossed the Danube, they encamped beside the Danube as far as Budafelh v z. Hearing this, all the Romans living throughout the land of Pannonia, saved their lives by flight. Next day, Prince...
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  • A Short History of the Ottoman Empire by Worringer, Renée
    Ren馥 Worringer

    A Short History of the Ottoman Empire

    In this beautifully illustrated overview, Ren馥 Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ottoman Empire uses clear headings, themes, text boxes,...
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  • Gilgamesh: A Captivating Guide to Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of Gilgamesh by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Gilgamesh: A Captivating Guide to Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of Gilgamesh

    Explore the Captivating History of Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of GilgameshRarely does a name survive as many millennia as Gilgamesh has. World-renowned men of letters such as Carl Gustav Jung and Rainer Maria Rilke spoke nothing but the highest praise for the...
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  • Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction by Radner, Karen
    Karen Radner

    Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction

    Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC....
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  • A History of Wales by Davies, John
    John Davies

    A History of Wales

    Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales. Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the...
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  • The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by Hale, John
    John Hale

    The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

    The masterpiece of Britain's leading Renaissance scholar. Winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award. 'A superb evocation of the Europe of the "long 16th-century", wonderfully fresh and rich in its copious illustrative detail, full of innumerable delights....
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  • Fifth Age of Man: An Adventure in Time and Space through the History of Humankind by Møller, Søren
    Sen Mler

    Fifth Age of Man: An Adventure in Time and Space through the History of Humankind

    Time is ripe to embrace a proper understanding of the origin and history of humankind.Evolution is regarded as a fact of life because we think that Darwin's theory on the slow and gradual transmutation of species by the means of natural selection in the...
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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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  • Afghanistan 101 by Entezar, Ehsan M.
    Ehsan M. Entezar

    Afghanistan 101: Understanding Afghan Culture

    Afghanistan 101 is an introduction to Afghan culture. More specifically, this dimensional analysis discusses Power Distance (PD), Uncertainty Avoidance (UA), Individualism (IND), and Masculinity (MAS) in the Afghan national culture. These dimensions are based on the work of the well-known Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofestede....
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  • African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective by Connah, Graham
    Graham Connah

    African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective

    This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon...
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  • Ancient Greece by Kovacs, Charles
    Charles Kovacs

    Ancient Greece

    A retelling of Greek mythology and ancient history as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Class 5-6 (age 10-12). This welcome new addition to Charles Kovacs' work contains legendary stories of mythical heroes and historic figures from the dawn of western civilization. Through the fearless deeds...
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  • The Evolution of the West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values by Spencer, Nick
    Nick Spencer

    The Evolution of the West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values

    What has Christianity ever done for us? A lot more than you might think, as Nick Spencer reveals in this fresh exploration of our cultural origins. Looking at the big ideas that characterize the West, such as human dignity, the rule of law, human...
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  • Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study by Trigger, Bruce G.
    Bruce G. Trigger

    Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study

    Arising independently in various parts of the world, early civilizations--the first class-based societies in human history--are of importance to social scientists interested in the development of complexity, while their cultural productions fascinate both humanists and the general public. This book offers the first detailed...
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  • Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History by Pitts, Mike
    Mike Pitts

    Digging Up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History

    Digging Up Britain traces the history of Britain through key discoveries and excavations. With British archaeologist Mike Pitts as a guide, this book covers the most exciting excavations of the past ten years, gathers firsthand stories from the people who dug up the remains,...
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  • Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity by Scott, Michael
    Michael Scott

    Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity

    "As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalized world." -- Tom Holland, author of Dynasty and Rubicon Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our...
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  • The Sumerians by Woolley, C. Leonard
    C. Leonard Woolley

    The Sumerians

    The idea that Egypt was the earliest civilization has been entirely exploded. The Sumerians had reached a very high level of culture by 3500 B.C.E., and may be said with some justice to be the forerunners of all the Old World civilizations of Egypt,...
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  • The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Brendon, Piers
    Piers Brendon

    The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

    A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that...
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  • The City: A World History by Lees, Andrew
    Andrew Lees

    The City: A World History

    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on...
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  • The Biblical Philosophy of History by Rushdoony, Rousas John
    Rousas John Rushdoony

    The Biblical Philosophy of History

    Author: Rousas John RushdoonyISBN-10: 1879998157ISBN-13: 9781879998155Publisher: Ross House BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2000Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.97w x 0.40d
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  • The Acropolis: Global Fame, Local Claim by Yalouri, Eleana
    Eleana Yalouri

    The Acropolis: Global Fame, Local Claim

    The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over the world. One of the world's most famous heritage sites, it has long been a national monument of Greece and a...
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  • Giants and Atlantis: Revelations of Forbidden Archaeology by De Ruiter, Robin
    Robin De Ruiter

    Giants and Atlantis: Revelations of Forbidden Archaeology

    Greek mythology and the legends of the Andean Indians tell of the feats of giants possessing knowledge far in advance of present-day technology. The oral traditions of the inhabitants of Easter Island describe the builders of their moai statues as men of exceptional stature....
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  • End of the Modern World by Guardini, Romano
    Romano Guardini

    End of the Modern World

    2019 Reprint of 1956 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. The work attempts mainly to depict in general outline the character and the promise of a new man, Mass Man, and a new world, a world of...
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  • Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present by Brown, Cynthia Stokes
    Cynthia Stokes Brown

    Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

    "This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped--and how they in turn shaped the world we know today." --Publishers Weekly This book offers "world history on a grand scale"--pulling back for a wider view and putting...
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