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The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient CivilizationWhen Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilization ceased to exist. Our own...
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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest MysteryJ. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the...
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The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient MayaFrom the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millennia The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest...
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The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World CivilizationsThe Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations - A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems In February, 1898, while engaged upon the translation and commentary of the anonymous Hispano Mexican MS. of the...
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The Future in America: A Search After RealitiesThe Future in America: A Search After Realities FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Frontispiece ENTRANCE TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE STATE STREET, CHICAGO WESTERN FARMERS STILL OWN THEIR FARMS PLUMP AND PRETTY PUPILS OF EXTRAVAGANCE NEW YORK'S CROWDED, LITTERED EAST SIDE BREAKER BOYS AT A PENNSYLVANIA COLLIERY...
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The Future of TruthFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth--and how to find it in our "post-truth" era? For over half a...
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and FeelsNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions...
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The Glories of IrelandThe Glories of IrelandWe had at first intended that this should be a book without a preface, and indeed it needs none, for it speaks in no uncertain tones for itself; but on reconsideration we decided that it would be more seemly to give...
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The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisationThe Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation REECE and Greek mean different things to different people. To the man in the street, if he exists, they stand for something proverbially remote and obscure, as dead as Queen Anne, as...
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The God of Our Fathers: The Great Stories of the Bible"In his joyful new book, Aldo Cazzullo invites us, through sparkling prose, to dive into some of the greatest stories ever told."--James Martin, SJ, New York Times bestselling author of Work in Progress and Learning to PrayA #1 bestselling sensation in ItalyAs a way...
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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle AgesAn unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an...
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The Grandeur That Was Rome: a survey of Roman culture and civilisationThe Grandeur That Was Rome: a survey of Roman culture and civilisation THENS and Rome stand side by side as the parents of Western civilisation. The parental metaphor is almost irresistible. Rome is so obviously masculine and robust, Greece endowed with so much loveliness...
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The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments"All at once funny, touching, dazzlingly informative and fascinating, brilliantly imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and genuinely tender sweetness, tragedy, and wonder."--STEPHEN FRY History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask...
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The Greek View of LifeThe Greek View of LifeThe following pages are intended to serve as a general introduction to Greek literature and thought, for those, primarily, who do not know Greek. Whatever opinions may be held as to the value of translations, it seems clear that it...
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The Greek WayIn The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and...
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short HistoryThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity's great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green's remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by...
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of RomeThis is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireEdward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars...
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First CrusadeIn her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned...
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the WorldCundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the Year The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire...
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