History - Civilization

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CUNDIL HISTORY PRIZE A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read? A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters The Middle Ages are seen as...

Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is. Graham Hancock is featured in Ancient Apocalypse,...

Fly Guy learns all about castles!Children across the nation voted for the topic of this Fly Guy Presents book, and the winning topic was... CASTLES! On their latest field trip, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about castles: from drawbridges and dungeons to kings,...

In his "best achievement to date" (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a "deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written" (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to...

The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, many have been unjustly forgotten. History is overflowing with different cultures that have all evolved over time, sometimes dissolving...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the...

French Ways and Their MeaningThis book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more...

"A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." -- William Safire, New York TimesHighly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and...

General History of Civilisation in Europe, From the Fall of the Roman Empire Till the French Revolution. A Treatise on Death Punishments. It may be asked, perhaps, what I hope from this work? I do not hope, I admit, that governments will be convinced...

German Culture Past and PresentThe following pages aim at giving a general view of the social and intellectual life of Germany from the end of the medival period to modern times. In the earlier portion of the book, the first half of the sixteenth...

Geschichte der Mathematik im Altertum in Verbindung mit antiker KulturgeschichteDiese Schrift ist im wesentlichen eine Drucklegung der Vorlesung, welche ich 1903 in Strassburg gehalten habe, nur der Abschnitt ber Babylon musste infolge der raschen Arbeit des Spatens in Mesopotamien stark erweitert werden. Die Vorlesung...

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) - La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero Era un sabato, il pi bel giorno dei sette: e io uscito in sul calar del sole dalla porta di Monte Morello mi recava al colle detto Monte Tabor. Sono ora...

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far EastOf whatever dimension, the temples or shrines of pure Shint are all built in the same archaic style. The typical shrine is a windowless oblong building of unpainted timber, with a very steep...

Gli albori della vita Italiana - Conferenze tenute a Firenze nel 1890 Raccogliere ascoltatrici e ascoltatori devoti, quanti amano genialit di studi, vigoria di pensieri, pittrice eleganza nel dire, e invitare gl'ingegni pi colti, perch ognun di essi nelle spirituali adunanze, colorisca, secondo un...

What is the earliest temple complex on Earth? Who built it? Is it really 7,000 years older than Stonehenge and the pyramids? How did such a sophisticated civilization evade detection for so long? In this groundbreaking little book, packed with original research and illustrations,...

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB'S MUST-READ BOOK - A radical retelling of human history through the cycle of societal collapse--"a Cassandra-like warning about the path today's oligarchs have set [and] a sweeping and dire vision of a world on the brink." (Publishers Weekly, starred...

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new...

History comes alive for kids like no textbook can in this epic account of the time of the Vikings that's perfect for history buffs and reluctant readers! Contains awesome illustrations! From battle-axe-wielding tribes plundering the greatest cities of Europe to powerful kings and queens...

Hellenism in Asia MinorAsia Minor is the country which, more than all others, recalls the highest development of Hellenic civilization. Its deeply indented coast formed a chaplet of Hellenic democracies which reached out into the interior and actually attacked the Persian civilization, upon which...