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  • Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization by Williams, Robert A.
    Robert A. Williams

    Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization

    From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the...
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  • The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society by Morris, Ian
    Ian Morris

    The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society

    In The Greeks, Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell try to see ancient Greece as a whole: not just a narrative of events or an overview of culture, but history and culture taken together. From ancient Greece comes the modern conviction that through open...
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  • Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean by López-Ruiz, Carolina
    Carolina López-Ruiz

    Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean

    The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks. Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice...
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  • Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II by Betts, Paul
    Paul Betts

    Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II

    Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryFrom an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of Europe after the depravity of World War II.In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in...
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  • Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic by Federer, William J.
    William J. Federer

    Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

    How did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America's experiment with a republic? With every crisis, is power being taken away from "the people" and transfered to the central government. Does history give us a clue as to where all this is...
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  • How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization by Adler, Mortimer
    Mortimer Adler

    How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization

    Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing...
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  • History of the Persian Empire by Olmstead, A. T.
    A. T. Olmstead

    History of the Persian Empire

    Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point...
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  • A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Toynbee, Arnold J.
    Arnold J. Toynbee

    A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X

    Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, texture,...
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  • The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future by Kelly, Robert L.
    Robert L. Kelly

    The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

    "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key...
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  • What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West by Wengrow, David
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    What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

    The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? archaeologist David Wengrow investigates the origins of farming,...
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  • Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of by Carlsen, William
    William Carlsen

    Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe "masterful chronicle" of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets. Featuring a history and description of the major Maya sites, including Chichen Itza, Tulum, Palenque, Uxmal, Copan, and more. Illustrated...
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  • Maya History: A Captivating Guide to the Maya Civilization, Culture, Mythology, and the Maya Peoples' Impact on Mesoamerican History by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Maya History: A Captivating Guide to the Maya Civilization, Culture, Mythology, and the Maya Peoples' Impact on Mesoamerican History

    Did you know that the Mayans used saunas for healing purposes?In the past decade or two, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maya history. This was partly fueled by the mythical Maya prediction of the end of the world in 2012, which...
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  • Ancient Civilizations: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Canaanites, Hittites and Ancient Israel and Their Role in Biblical History by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Ancient Civilizations: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Canaanites, Hittites and Ancient Israel and Their Role in Biblical History

    If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Canaanites, Hittites and ancient Israelites, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: The Ancient Canaanites: A Captivating Guide to the Canaanite Civilization that Dominated the Land of Canaan Before the Ancient Israelites...
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  • Out of Australia: Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race by Strong, Steven
    Steven Strong

    Out of Australia: Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race

    In their startling new book, Steven and Evan Strong challenge the out-of-Africa theory. Based on fresh examination of both the DNA and archeological evidence, they conclude that modern humans originated from Australia, not Africa.The original Australians (referred to by some as Aborigines ), like...
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  • Keen's Latin American Civilization, Volume 1: A Primary Source Reader, Volume One: The Colonial Era by Buffington, Robert M.
    Robert M. Buffington

    Keen's Latin American Civilization, Volume 1: A Primary Source Reader, Volume One: The Colonial Era

    The tenth edition of Keen's Latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes. This first volume retains most of the colonial period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions...
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  • Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future by Postman, Neil
    Neil Postman

    Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

    In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world. Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the...
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  • A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future by Van Doren, Charles
    Charles Van Doren

    A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

    A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE...
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  • The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars by Saunders, William R.
    William R. Saunders

    The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars

    The original book, written long ago, existed, but its sight is hidden from the searcher and the thinker. - The Maya Popol VuhOver the last half century, an abundance of evidence has been put forward to indicate a highly advanced civilization once existed on...
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  • Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century by Pullen, Lesley
    Lesley Pullen

    Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century

    There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remains in archaeological sites and...
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  • Person of Interest Video Study: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World That Rejects the Bible by Wallace, J. Warner
    J. Warner Wallace

    Person of Interest Video Study: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World That Rejects the Bible

    Investigate the Man Who Changed the Course of Human HistoryIn Person of Interest, Wallace employs a unique investigative strategy to confirm the historicity and deity of Jesus, showing why Jesus is unlike any other person who has ever lived. The Person of Interest Video...
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  • Ancient High Tech: The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations by Joseph, Frank
    Frank Joseph

    Ancient High Tech: The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations

    A detailed look into ancient advanced technology, science, and medicine--some of which has yet to be reproduced today - Explores countless examples of ancient high tech, including robotics, artificial intelligence, aircraft, solar-powered cannons, high-speed drills, illuminated underground temples, massive refrigerators, and subterranean cities -...
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  • Africa and the Discovery of America by Wiener, Leo
    Leo Wiener

    Africa and the Discovery of America

    This book is about an event in history that changed the world for all times. It is a sad story that did not have to be. What Africans and the indigenous Americans have given to the world is a part of total humanity that...
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  • The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Boorstin, Daniel J.
    Daniel J. Boorstin

    The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a...
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  • A History of Reading by Manguel, Alberto
    Alberto Manguel

    A History of Reading

    A book for book lovers by a true lover of books! At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted...
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  • The Reality, Mythology, and Fantasies of Unicorns by Williams, W. B. J.
    W. B. J. Williams

    The Reality, Mythology, and Fantasies of Unicorns

    The Hunt for a Unicorn.The belief in unicorns as magical creatures is one that is rooted deeply in human history. They are featured in myths, legends, and folk tales from multiple cultures across the globe. In this volume, W.B.J. Williams, the author of the...
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  • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Holloway, Richard
    Richard Holloway

    Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

    Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway...
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  • Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Barrett, Anthony a.
    Anthony a. Barrett

    Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty

    Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and...
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  • History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire

    If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...India is a land of mystery, richness, and deep spiritual discovery. Every facet of this ancient land seems scented with the famous spices that lured European traders to its shores more than...
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  • Ancient China: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty to th by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Ancient China: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty to th

    If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading...To understand present-day China, its politics, society, and culture in general, we have to go back to the beginnings of the Chinese civilization.In this book, you will be led on a...
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  • The Story of Civilization Activity Book: Volume I - The Ancient World by Tan Books
    Tan Books

    The Story of Civilization Activity Book: Volume I - The Ancient World

    The Activity Book and companion Teacher's Manual provide a complete review of everything read in The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter, including: - Reading comprehension questions - Narration Exercises - Map Activities - Coloring Pages...
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  • The Sasquatch Message to Humanity: Conversations with Elder Kamooh by Lapseritis, Kelly
    Kelly Lapseritis

    The Sasquatch Message to Humanity: Conversations with Elder Kamooh

    SunB w received and transcribed these messages from an Elder Sasquatch named Kamooh in 2015 while in British Columbia, Canada. The Sasquatch People asked us to disseminate the information as it's a message to the world for us each to do our part to...
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  • Byzantium Unbound by Kaldellis, Anthony
    Anthony Kaldellis

    Byzantium Unbound

    For a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the diversity of human culture, Byzantium is strangely one of the most maligned and misunderstood civilizations of the past. The way in which history has been...
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  • The Story of Civilization Test Book: Volume I - The Ancient World by Campbell, Phillip
    Phillip Campbell

    The Story of Civilization Test Book: Volume I - The Ancient World

    This test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: Volume I, The Ancient World. With this book, students can test their reading comprehension and further educate themselves on the content found in the text. One quiz corresponds to each chapter...
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  • The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Lewis, Mark Edward
    Mark Edward Lewis

    The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han

    In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we...
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  • Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations by Davies, Norman
    Norman Davies

    Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

    From the bestselling author of Europe: A History comes a uniquely ambitious masterpiece that will thrill fans of lost civilizations While Germany, Italy, France, and England dominate our conceptions of Europe, these modern states are relatively recent constructs. In this brilliant work of historical...
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  • Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Romanian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler

    If you want to discover the captivating history of Romania and Vlad the Impaler, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Romania: A Captivating Guide to Romanian History, Including Events Such as the First Roman-Dacian War, Raids of Vlad III Dracula...
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  • The Great Rupture: Three Empires, Four Turning Points, and the Future of Humanity by Shvets, Viktor
    Viktor Shvets

    The Great Rupture: Three Empires, Four Turning Points, and the Future of Humanity

    Do we need to be free to be innovative, prosperous, or even happy?The lessons of the last five centuries were unequivocal-without freedom, there could be no prosperity or happiness. However, does this still hold true in the Information Age?Modern technologies are disrupting our societies,...
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  • Berlin: The Story of a City by White-Spunner, Barney
    Barney White-Spunner

    Berlin: The Story of a City

    The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, and reunification of the twentieth century. There has always been a particular fervor about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and a...
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  • Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Cartledge, Paul
    Paul Cartledge

    Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

    "Mr. Cartledge's command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciation of Thebes is persuasive." --Wall Street Journal "An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account. . . . A masterful book written by a master historian." --Bettany Hughes, bestselling author, Istanbul...
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  • Western Culture Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues by Ratzinger, Joseph
    Joseph Ratzinger

    Western Culture Today and Tomorrow: Addressing Fundamental Issues

    Well known for his important scholarly contributions to dogmatic theology and biblical commentary, Joseph Ratzinger has also been an insightful, shrewd analyst of political modernity and its discontents. This work reveals Ratzinger's keen insight into the fundamental challenges confronting the twenty-first-century West.The civilizational project...
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  • Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Huizinga, Johan
    Johan Huizinga

    Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

    2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central...
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  • Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by Saul, John Ralston
    John Ralston Saul

    Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

    With a new Introduction by the author, this "erudite and brilliantly readable book" (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction...
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  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Graeber, David
    David Graeber

    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote...
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  • Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More by Barlag, Phillip
    Phillip Barlag

    Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More

    Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn't do. But fear not, the truth of...
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  • The Celestial Hunter by Dixon, Richard
    Richard Dixon

    The Celestial Hunter

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[Calasso's] flow of associations leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe eighth part of Roberto Calasso's monumental series on the primal forces of civilization The...
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  • Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America by Collins, Andrew
    Andrew Collins

    Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Gekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America

    Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world - Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago - Shows...
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  • Genoa, 'la Superba': The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower by Walton, Nicholas
    Nicholas Walton

    Genoa, 'la Superba': The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower

    Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world. It fought bitter battles with its great rival Venice and imprisoned Marco Polo, as the feuding...
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  • That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by Lendon, J. E.
    J. E. Lendon

    That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

    How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and...
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  • The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement, Ideas by Ball, Warwick
    Warwick Ball

    The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement, Ideas

    A geographical area, not a political entity, the steppe connects the western and eastern parts of the Eurasian land mass. As such, it is always open, subject to constant movement between Asia and Europe. Warwick Ball tells the story of that movement from prehistory...
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  • The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Stoneman, Richard
    Richard Stoneman

    The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks

    An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs of...
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