Civilization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143169574Author Ted BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

For much of the twentieth century, Americans saw their nation as part of a shared Western civilization rooted in European Enlightenment ideals of liberty and self-government and the heritage of classical Greece and Rome. And for much of the century, a...

The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the reader some sense of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593734223Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 819g

In The Quality Revolution, George Mouradian examines the quality initiatives -past and present- that have been used throughout the world. Mouradian's purpose is to clarify exactly what quality is to workers of all levels, from CEOs to production workers...

The city, a concept nearly as old as history itself, is a paradox of human innovation and intervention, order and conflict. From ancient civilizations to modern-day metropolises, maps have played a crucial role in urban progress. This book explores the...

Michael Burger’s goal in this overview is to provide a brief historical narrative of Western civilization. The no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-author approach make this book an affordable yet valuable asset for every history student. ...

Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious--or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668031087Author Patrick JoyceFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 549g

Jurgen Habermas' pioneering work has provoked intense discussion about the rise of a modern public sphere and civil society. Redekop revises and expands the Habermasian thesis by demonstrating that, rather than being particularly "bourgeois,"...

How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians S. F. C. Milsom...

Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393418712Author James M BrophyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 953g

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives—as well as the most important autobiographical work—to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian...

National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought in the fields of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has obtained an important and contested role. Irrespective of...

The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505105698Author Phillip CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'. The belief and ideology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894258Author Joseph ShackFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194115Author Valerie HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567589Author Nicholas BadcottPage Count 32Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 218g

Greek views of the Achaemenids and their Empire. How did the Greek view of Persia and Persians change so radically in the archaic and classical Greek sources that they turned from noble warriors into peacock loving cross dressers with murderous mothers?...

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 9780807046432Author David CarrascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the...

Critical Path is R. Buckminster Fuller's masterwork - the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern - as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication over 20 years ago. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860924Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 165g

Muslim Civilization has experienced an overall decline during the last five centuries after having undergone a long period of prosperity and comprehensive development. This raises a number of questions such as what factors enabled Muslims to become...

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern...

When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832968Author Solomon VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 938gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? Widerquist and McCall draw on archaeology and anthropology to show that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194108Author Valerie HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617590023Author Leo WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint EworldPublisher EworldWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 20mm

Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222199Author Dominic LievenFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 43mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585107957Author Brian K. HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

The Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The "Turks"...

Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest developments in human history and the rise of the first major civilizations, from the Middle East to India and China.In this volume of the six-part History of the World series,...