Civilization

In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609805367Author Daniel QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788367583411Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Publisher Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Weight(grams)...

From nomadic peoples to conquering empires, from tales of Amazon women to art nouveau, and from golden grave goods to the formation of countries that still exist today, Ball shows how the steppe has continually shaped Europe's destiny.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127147Author William RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 284g

Christopher Daniell's Atlas of Medieval Britain presents a sweeping visual survey of Britain from the Roman occupation to 1485. Annotated throughout with clear commentary, this volume tells the story of the British Isles, and makes visually accessible...

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the...

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning-cost-benefit analysis-to get it. We judge ourselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064466Author Abdullah OEcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With...

In this completely revised and expanded edition of When the Sky Fell, Rand and Rose Flem-Ath show that 12,000 years ago vast areas of Antarctica were free from ice and home to the kingdom of Atlantis, a proposition that also elegantly solves the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900588341Author Rene GuenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams)...

The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g

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. First discovered in the 1970s, the Oxus Civilization, or the...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487836Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm)...

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890481Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back...

Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination, and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.The volume focuses on colonialism's...

This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, and that there were Greek cities in the foothills of the Himalayas. This book tells the story of the Greeks outside...

Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587312151Author Remi BragueFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 238mm...

An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and...

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"-the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610162524Author Butler ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310598Author John ZerzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393321692Author M BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 146mm * 19mm

This book, for use by Steiner-Waldorf teachers, includes stories of the founding of Rome, the early battles with Carthage and Hannibal, Julius Caesar and the conquests of Gaul and Britain, Antony and Cleopatra, and the decline and fall under the Huns and...

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

The idea that Egypt was the earliest civilization has been entirely exploded. The Sumerians had reached a very high level of culture by 3500 B.C.E., and may be said with some justice to be the forerunners of all the Old World civilizations of Egypt,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525512196Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record - sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances - hint at what was to come. Today, a network of interdependence and...

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...

The Hellenistic period was a rich and exciting time for philosophy. It saw the birth of two new schools of thought, Epicureanism and Stoicism, and important developments in Plato's Academy. Aristotelians and Cynics were also active during the period, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400082148Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Mapping Time is an account for the general reader of the history and underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world, from antiquity to modern times. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the...

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in...