History - Civilization

"I first became an avid student of David Christian by watching his course, Big History, on DVD, and so I am very happy to see his enlightening presentation of the world's history captured in these essays. I hope it will introduce a wider audience...

Tools of the Ancient Greeks: A Kid's Guide to the History and Science of Life in Ancient Greece explores the scientific discoveries, athletic innovations, engineering marvels, and innovative ideas created more than two thousand years ago. Through biographical sidebars, interesting facts, fascinating anecdotes, and...

Tools of the Ancient Greeks: A Kid's Guide to the History and Science of Life in Ancient Greece explores the scientific discoveries, athletic innovations, engineering marvels, and innovative ideas created more than two thousand years ago. Through biographical sidebars, interesting facts, fascinating anecdotes, and...

The realms and reveries of the Middle Ages unfold in more than 750 black-and-white illustrations. Includes magnificent renderings of warriors, scholars, musicians, architecture, business and recreation, mythical legends, and more.Author: Paul LaCroixPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 03/14/2008Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.32w x 0.39dISBN:...

Troy and Its Remains - A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan PlainTHE present book is a sort of Diary of my excavations at Troy, for all the memoirs of which it consists were, as...

Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) - La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero Chi scrisse questi versi era nato poeta, avea nelle vene il sangue della greca poesia. L'isola natale che cos sonante gli rifioriva nel verso [408] eraglisi trasmutata dal vero in questa...

Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828) - La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero Ma l'uno e l'altro sono altres essenzialmente classici, e generatori di quel neoclassicismo nazionale, in cui consiste tutta la letteratura nostra, che vien dietro a loro e sino al Manzoni. Questa...

This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John...

"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people...

The Middle Ages come to life in this latest installment in the hit Weird But True Know-It-All series, featuring stories of legendary rulers, epic castles, menacing weaponry, and more! Vikings are known for being fierce warriors. But did you know that they used tug-of-war...

Go back to the thrilling time of warring knights who were prepared to give their life in order to protect their lord and his castle. Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were...

What Have the Greeks Done for Modern Civilisation?THESE lectures, delivered in Boston at the invitation of the Curator of the Lowell Institute, in December and January, 1908-9, are now published owing to many requests both from those that heard them and from those that...

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters--and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way It's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history--obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on...

What's What in AmericaAmerica is a heterogeneous conglomeration of humans comprising a homogeneity. They are all alike, yet they are unalike. All corners of the earth have contributed in the making, yet the one hundred millions have all been blended together into the huge...

In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically learn in school, which most likely began with slavery and ended with the Civil Rights Movement. we're talking about Black history BEFORE that. Long before that....

Where Half The World Is Waking Up - The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Page numbers are enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They are located where page breaks occurred in...

Where the Sabots Clatter AgainThe Radcliffe Unit in France collaborated with the French Red Cross in its work of reconstruction after the Armistice. It was as a member of this unit and as chauffeuse in the devastated regions that the writer received the impressions...

Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the...

With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the...

Travel through the entire human story-brought to life with full-color maps, vivid illustrations, and rich infographics that make the past feel close enough to touch. From Mesopotamia's first cities to the digital age, witness the rise and fall of empires, the sparks of revolutions,...