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 Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 (Library of World Biography Series) (Library of World Biography)Best Price: $17.99 Edward Dreyer's book on Zheng He is a disappointment. I had known about Zheng He through Louise... |  The Art and Architecture of Ancient America, Third Edition: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)Best Price: $31.61 |  Religions of Rome: Volume 1: A HistoryBest Price: $21.46 This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome,... |  Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt: Projects and Activities That Bring the Past to Life (Spend The Day Series)Best Price: $6.65 We checked out every Egyptian craft book from our library for a homeschool unit (grade 5, and... |  Greek Myths: Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Their Sources, Their Stories and Their MeaningsBest Price: $39.99 This was one of the better mythological books I have ever read. The best part about it is that... |
 The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple MountBest Price: $4.06 This book is a great introduction to apocalyptic beliefs of the major three religions of... |  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1Best Price: $14.68 I do not recommend buying an edition of "The Decline and Fall" based upon price alone,... |  The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. C: Since 1780Best Price: $45.00 Hunt and the co-authors offer a balanced and objective treatment of the development of Europe... |  Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion In Ancient IsraelBest Price: $12.34 Like his other inquisition [[ASIN:080282126X What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did... |  The History of Costume: From Ancient Mesopotamia Through the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $59.36 This is costume history on the broad line, as the title says. It gives a good overwiev and as a... |
 Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman WomanBest Price: $22.95 STAMPED ON MY MIND FOREVER-FABULOUS BOOK. TO KNOW OF SUCH STRONG HEROISM OF THESE 2 SAINTS OF... |  The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient CivilizationsBest Price: $14.11 I have yet to be disappointed by a historical reference book from Penguin, this one is no... |  A Short Introduction to Classical MythBest Price: $47.13 A Short Introduction to Classical Myth by Barry B. Powell was used in my Greek and Roman... |  Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom (Ancient Egyptian Literature)Best Price: $13.99 This is an admirable volume II, consistent with what made volume I my first choice. In this... |  War and the IliadBest Price: $6.95 Simone Weil was one of the transcendent geniuses of our time. The archetypal... |
 Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human AffairsBest Price: $5.97 While I find the idea of "technosphere vs. noosphere" intriguing, and I support the... |  Plagues and Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic DiseaseBest Price: $17.44 I am using this book in a class I am currently teaching. It's fine, gives a decent rundown on... |  Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians (People of the Ancient World)Best Price: $5.57 This attractive and informative book is part of the People of the Ancient World series of books... |  Ancient Egypt: Start Exploring (Working for Myself)Best Price: $8.96 This was a gift for a 12 year old girl who was thrilled to receive it. Fun, educational and... |  The Age of Bede (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.99 This Penguin Classics volume has had a somewhat complicated history, and those who are familiar... |
 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in ArchaeologyBest Price: $25.19 Another jargon loaded archaeological theory classic. It reviews major trends of post-processual... |  The Search For Ancient EgyptBest Price: $3.48 This book is not really about Ancient Egypt. It is, as its title suggests, a book about the... |  The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle PaulBest Price: $15.00 Very up-to-date information, thoroughly discussed and analyzed. The book is laid out by... |  Ancient China (Treasure Chest)Best Price: $14.20 This book was supposed to come with a Chinese Caligraphy brush/ink and some instructions. That... |  The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost SecretsBest Price: $4.99 This book is great for anyone researching the Delphinic Oracle tradition. It also sheds light... |
 The Greco-Persian WarsBest Price: $14.77 This is a good, solid, and necessarily, given the nature of our sources, Athenocentric account... |  The Roman Empire And the New Testament: An Essential Guide (Essential Guide (Abingdon Press))Best Price: $10.11 |  The Mayan Prophecies for 2012Best Price: $10.17 The winter equinox—December 21-22, 2012—marks the end of the famous Mayan... |  Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1)Best Price: $11.93 Twain's pejorative definition of `classic' need not apply. I define classic as that (text)... |  Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (Oxford History of Art)Best Price: $14.89 This innovative and deliciously illustrated guide to the arts of Greece and Rome is composed in... |
 Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Smithsonian History of Warfare) (Smithsonian History of Warfare)Best Price: $10.00 One has a sneaking suspicion reading this volume that Hanson started with his conclusion first... |  Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book About Ancient EgyptBest Price: $6.49 This book was great for my kids 8 and 6 . They enoyed it very much and like to read it often. It... |  The Living I Ching: Using Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Shape Your LifeBest Price: $5.90 This beautiful translation is in keeping with the care and character of the very best in Chinese... |  The West: Culture and Ideas, Prentice Hall Portfolio Edition, Volume One: to 1660Best Price: $30.60 This book interprets Western civilization broadly—continuing to discuss the Middle... |  Sources of World Civilization: A Diversity of Traditions, Volume 1 (3rd Edition)Best Price: $28.40 This two volume series spans the world and its history from the third millennium B.C. to the... |
 The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (Paul in Critical Contexts)Best Price: $19.12 Written by Neil Elliott (adjunct faculty member in Biblical Studies, Metropolitan State... |  History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded HistoryBest Price: $16.18 The best way to get to know a culture is by it's own people. Kramer, the world's leading... |  The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of PoetryBest Price: $7.91 The Book of Songs (Shi Jing) is one of the seminal works of Chinese Civilization, along with the... |  The West and the World: A History of Civilization from 1400 to the PresentBest Price: $20.99 "Reilly's text is the most teachable . . . one of the best conceived chronological... |  Stolen LegacyBest Price: $5.89 Ok, forget the whole "Black Egyptians" thing for one minute. This book exposes the... |
 Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (The New Classical Canon)Best Price: $22.00 Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever... |  Archaeology and the Old TestamentBest Price: $27.46 I am going to seminary and am reading this book as required for and archeology class. The book... |  Invasion of Europe by the BarbariansBest Price: $6.98 "The Goths where a people forged by the oppression of the Roman army, conscripted for use... |  The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic DiseaseBest Price: $21.60 A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder... |  The Archaeology of the BibleBest Price: $18.66 Easy to read book for the non specialist. Although the author tried to be as objective as... |
 Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by National GeographicBest Price: $14.35 I absolutely adore this book. The pictures are so beautiful and layed out perfectly. The book... |  World of the PharaohsBest Price: $3.75 I always believed ancient Egyptian culture is the zenith point of the human kind on its age, ... |  The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True FormBest Price: $4.84 The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's... |  Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes 1963 1964Best Price: $1.17 I'd have to imagine that writing a book like this is not as easy as some would assume; not only... |  The Eternal Army: The Terracotta Army of the First Chinese Emperor (Timeless Treasures)Best Price: $37.36 I ordered this book so I could read about the terracotta warriors prior to visiting the exhibit... |
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