History - Civilization

The Anunnaki is a legendary race that appears in the oldest documents preserved by mankind. They are said to inhabit an outermost planet that orbits our sun in an extremely elliptical orbit. Each time this planet gets near to the earth it creates planetary...

Talented voice actor and audio book producer Kevin Gallagher returns to bring children the history of the world in this riveting reading of The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World. This follows his immensely popular reading of TAN Book s The Story of the...

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our...

In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the...

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years....

Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth. "Paradises got off to a bad start early on. The one the Bible had arranged had to rapidly close its pearly gates...

In this "gripping account of catastrophic defeat" (Barry Strauss), a New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time "In The End of Everything, Hanson...

After reviewing knowledge of Iron Age Iran, the authors look in detail at the highly developed social institutions of the Achaemenid Empire, most notably at state administration, agrarian relations, monetary systems, slavery and trade. A wide-ranging discussion of that culture covers such topics as...

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,...

���� Discover the Enchanting World of Aztec Mythology ����Step into a realm where gods walked the earth, myths breathed life into ancient narratives, and heroes etched their stories into the fabric of time. Uncover the captivating journey of "Aztec Mythology: Gods, Myths, and Heroes...

Bradley Murphey brings his life's work to you with his debut study on the Viking society. Othil is a book about Norse tradition. There are many such books being published today, but, what makes this book different, is that the processes contained herein, are...

This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim...

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization offers a concise overview of European history developed to suit the undergraduate Western Civilization curriculum. Author Nicholas L. Waddy provides an accessible account of major developments in European history in a flexible format. The book will serve as...

Western culture, which influenced the whole world, came from Europe. But its roots are not there. They are in Athens and Jerusalem. European culture takes its bearing from references that are not in Europe: Europe is eccentric.What makes the West unique? What is the...

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,...

Author: Richard W. WilloughbyISBN-10: 1494781220ISBN-13: 9781494781224Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2013Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.49d

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,...

The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework - the 'Hispanic-Anglosphere' - to open a window into the often...

While Petra's fame might often come second to things like the Egyptian pyramids at Giza, ancient Greece, or the Great Wall of China, you can now see that the Rose City certainly deserves its place under the Sun as one of the most precious...

A vibrant, essential frequency in our Time, helping keep the world awake to itself through the luminosity, intelligence and sanity of poetry and artistic community. Kudos to this valuable Archive.- Anne Waldman, Naropa UniversityThis collection exemplifies through word and image that which is born...

"What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime." - Terence Mckenna Scientific theories that were once considered right and mighty were later proven wrong. This is the case even with...

"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." --The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the...

Leo Wiener's fascinating study connects Central American linguistics and words with those of African tribes, and the Europeans who first explored the New World.Wiener seeks to demonstrate many apparent cultural connections between various tribes in Africa, and those of Central and North America. It...

Your map to understanding human geography Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography, and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? It's...

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of texts on the Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I (c.600-424 BC), with accompanying map, illustrations, glossary and introductory notes giving crucial background information. It provides for the...

���� Discover the Enigmatic World of Sumerian Mythology: Unveil the Secrets of the Anunnaki Gods ����Embark on an extraordinary journey through time and space with our captivating book bundle: "Sumerian Mythology: Ancient Anunnaki Gods From Nibiru To Earth." Delve deep into the mystique of...

It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against...

In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case the ecological and economic background to growth, geographical factors, cross-cultural intersection and the...

In A History of South India, first published in 1955, K.A. Nilakanta Sastri provided a comprehensive account of the history of South India. Tracing the history from prehistoric times to the fall of the kingdom of Vijayanagar in 1565 AD, the book incorporated the...

Published in 1898 as part of the Cambridge Elementary Classics series, this edition of the fourth book of Xenophon's Anabasis was originally intended for use in schools. Edited by G. M. Edwards, the volume contains substantial supplementary material to assist with the Greek text,...

This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia.Author: Bertille LyonnetISBN-10: 1138722871ISBN-13: 9781138722873Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2020Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.25lbsSize: 9.80h x 7.20w...

"History of Civilization in England - Volume I" from Henry Thomas Buckle. English historian (1821 - 1862).Author: The Perfect Library, Henry Thomas BuckleISBN-10: 1519734794ISBN-13: 9781519734792Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2015Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

The most significant historical people, places, and events written by our experienced author and professor of history are laid out in a succinct timeline from 4 million BCE to 1500. In 6 laminated pages and with dates listed to easily find what you need,...

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,...

The Origin Of Law And Legislation: And The Influence Of The Codification And Interpretation Of Laws On The Civilization And Progress Of Nations is a book written by R. K. Dadachanji in 1904. The book explores the history and development of law and legislation,...

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...

What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the interlinked spirals carved on the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of "birth," "death," and "wild" cast light on...

Fifty thousand years ago, paradise was violated. They raped our women, enslaved our men, and forced us to deify them as gods. Based on the ancient Book of Enoch, The Watchers tells the story, for the first time in modern history, of the original...

Melchisedech, Moses, David and Solomon. We think of them as the famous kings of Canaan, powerful and mighty. But what if they were just common men, called to a very uncommon task? And what if that call was a woman's love? Read about history's...

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Robert Benjamin Lewis first published his famous history of Native American and African Americans in 1836, arguing against the then-prevalent views of white supremacy.Lewis seeks to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural achievements of both African peoples and the Native Americans. His history ranges back...

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,...

Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott's most significant papers. Lintott's corpus of work exposes the fundamental reliance of ancient Romans (and Greeks) on violent measures, including their readiness to resort to violence in the manner of judicial...

Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory--and, in this respect, our current era is no...

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of 100 novellas written by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. The book is set during the Black Death pandemic in Florence, Italy, and follows a group of ten young people who flee...

The primary object of this history is to relate the social problem to the experience of the past and so to help bring about a clearer comprehension of its nature. "The reason," says the author of Erewhon, "why we cannot see the future as...

The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world history, visited by travelers from across the globe. But what about the cities that have dropped off the map? That have been submerged under water, or swallowed up by the sands...

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,...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science...

Within this fascinating volume the author explores the history of the Sumerians in light of contemporary archaeological discoveries at Indus Valley. The author examines these discoveries and explains how they hint to the fact that the "Sumerians" were the long lost 'Early Aryans', and...