Civilization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532708688Author Simon StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Mesoamerican culture is rooted in the region of modern Mexico where some 3500 years ago ancient peoples called the Olmecs farmed and created beautiful art and pottery at roughly the same time as the Middle Kingdom Ancient...

The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political...

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...

'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345373168Author Charles Van DorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global historyPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book tells a different...

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...

'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History MagazineIn 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in...

Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a...

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES ...

Blom's hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yorker In...

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533538116Author Linda C EneixFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781070521930Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

What was the most important step in civilization? Alan Butler's answer is that it was when we began capturing wild sheep, domesticating and breeding them. Sheep were the mainstay of ancient cultures, by far the most important of the domesticated animals...

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations...

What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own...

The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks.Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781726107440Author Marcella BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. How would you identify a person of interest in such a case?Designed to be used alongside Person of Interest and the Person of Interest Video...

The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615919768Author Spencer L CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Spencer L. CrossPublisher Spencer L. CrossWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687916Author John PerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

"Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time." -The American GardenerThe History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of...

Fear in Contemporary Society and its Consequences"A delightfully fearless and deeply sensitive examination of that most primal and formative human experience." Alan Burdick, author of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation#1 New Release in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094532Author Teresa BernheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

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 9780062316110Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)...

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...

From the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129691Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Quill Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143117001Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and...

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

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718662209Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Cassiodorus-famed throughout history as one of the great Christian exegetes of antiquity-spent most of his life as a high-ranking public official under the Ostrogothic King Theoderic and his heirs. He produced the Variae, a unique letter collection that...

The prospectus that announced the creation of The Institute of the Humanities promised an inaugural course of twelve lectures, to be given by its founder and entitled, "Concerning a New Interpretation of International History. (Exposition and Examination...