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 The Murder of TutankhamenBest Price: $1.50 Lots of good info, but a bit outdated. It gives a lot of information without being overly... |  Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from SumerBest Price: $7.75 This translation/interpretation from the cuniform tablets gives an excellent feel for the... |  Jewish Backgrounds of the New TestamentBest Price: $18.23 I purchased this book for a Seminary class. This book is a great resource for students of the... |  The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day - The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color ImagesBest Price: $19.64 This is an excellant book .I am very pleased with it.And recommend this book .Elbert |  Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and LegendBest Price: $7.94 Anyone who wishes to learn more about the apostles and the New Testament will find this very... |
 Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of RomeBest Price: $10.50 Blood of the Caesars is a great read. It moves swiftly, holds the reader's interest and strikes... |  Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical BiographyBest Price: $7.00 Alexander, usually known as the Great, was truly great if we are speaking of military prowess.... |  An Introduction to Music and Art in the Western WorldBest Price: $22.75 Brought it for a class have not used it out of those confines but good for what I brought it for. |  The Dictionary of Classical MythologyBest Price: $4.01 If you love the pioneering work on mythology done by Edith Hamilton, then this book is a... |  Alexander the Great: Son of the GodsBest Price: $10.29 Easy to read and go thru without all the dryness of a lot of history books. I would highly... |
 Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, Fifth EditionBest Price: $12.50 this is a great book, lots of detailed photos. i am reading this book for a chicano studies... |  Syracuse 415-413 BC: Destruction of the Athenian Imperial Fleet (Campaign)Best Price: $10.26 When I first learned of the Osprey book, I was amazed a the detials and information they... |  The Republic (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.56 My intent is not to bog down the reader with a lot of drivel. This is one of the better... |  The Art of MemoryBest Price: $23.96 The author states more than a few times that "I myself have never applied these methods for... |  The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years AgoBest Price: $8.00 the sirius mystery begins as a truly interesting search for answers to the seemingly... |
 The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World CultureBest Price: $11.00 I agree with one other reviewer here who said "horrible cover but great book"...the... |  Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day (5 Denarii)Best Price: $13.82 This text is hysterical! I laughed out loud repeatedly while reading it. There is a wealth of... |  As The Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social HistoryBest Price: $39.99 Because Roman civilization is so fundamental to our own, there is scarcely a cultural of... |  Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene)Best Price: $7.79 It baffles me the good reviews on this book as in the first chapter, the words, "PERHAPS,... |  The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th CenturyBest Price: $6.86 It took weeks of on-and-off reading to finally finish this 770-page "intellectual history... |
 The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek LivesBest Price: $7.00 Through 9 Greek Lives (Theseus, the democracy builder; Aristides, the `Spartan' Athenian;... |  Reading the Maya Glyphs, Second EditionBest Price: $11.84 Perhaps the problem lies less with the authors and more with the language, but I suspect both... |  The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.46 Mine is a much earlier edition of THE TWELVE CAESARS, but it's still Robert Graves translation... |  Discoveries: Petra: Lost City of the Ancient World (Discoveries (Abrams))Best Price: $7.46 I bought this book for my parents who will be visiting Petra this year. This is a small but... |  No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The OdysseyBest Price: $12.44 Exceptional. Read this with one eye on Homer's version and the other on Huler's. An epic... |
 Moon Cancun and Cozumel: Including the Riviera Maya (Moon Handbooks)Best Price: $10.76 this guide was extremely helpful and informative during our trip, it had lots of info not only... |  The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.99 Rex Warner's is a pretty sleepy translation, albeit an important, early effort (from 1950).... |  The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery TraditionBest Price: $10.38 This was a tough little book for me to read. If one were a student of linguistics or ancient... |  The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325-787): Their History and Theology (Theology and Life Series 21)Best Price: $13.57 I own a number of books and resources relating to the seven ecumenical councils and this is by... |  Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History)Best Price: $3.16 Dr. Roux is an authoriry in the field. He lived for several years in the Middle East (Syria,... |
 The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.49 I enjoyed this translation greatly. The translations are easy to read in Modern English, are... |  The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Phoenix Books)Best Price: $16.97 Very good book to start reading about a people and a time that is hard to research and... |  A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)Best Price: $23.98 This text is a brief summary of the history of the Mesopotamia from 3000 BCE to 300 BCE. It is... |  The Heritage of World Civilizations: Volume Two since 1500 (7th Edition)Best Price: $43.99 Books are college-level, extensive. Though, while they are extensive, they are an easy read and... |  Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of CivilizationBest Price: $6.99 Graham Hanock continues to blow my mind with his brilliant deductions, make you open up for... |
 Ancient Rome: Monuments Past and PresentBest Price: $17.14 This is a wonderful book. It really fleshes out the remains of Rome's ancient monuments |  Western Civilization: Volume II: Since 1500Best Price: $21.00 Very easy explanation in book.........dont try to read whole book otherwise you will get sleep |  Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, Second Edition (Chronicles)Best Price: $13.42 A very good updated version for the maya enthusiast,you'll enjoy it page after page,Martin and... |  Sacred Earth: Places of Peace and PowerBest Price: $18.00 Clearly this is not another coffee table book. Even so, it could grace any coffee table, or... |  Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic TraditionsBest Price: $11.03 i thought this book was really informative giving lots of accumulated info that he has gained... |
 The Western Heritage: Combined Volume, TLC Edition (5th Edition)Best Price: $67.00 I'm not really sure what this book's purpose was really. It's not a great book, but it's not... |  The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and MotifsBest Price: $40.03 If you're interested in Tibetan Buddhist iconography for whatever reason you can't go wrong with... |  Annals of the World: James Ussher's Classic Survey of World HistoryBest Price: $44.09 This is a great book. A classic of history republished in English. The way Ussher weaves... |  The Oxford Classical DictionaryBest Price: $74.53 As far as plentiful quality information on the classical world, this book is number one. Any... |  Introduction to Attic GreekBest Price: $28.90 Because I have to study on my own this answer book obviously is a must. Mastronarde's approach... |
 Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth ChangesBest Price: $8.99 I've been reading a lot about global catastrophe -- either as earth changes, political war-based... |  Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical PeruBest Price: $10.96 This book offers a rare insight into Andean life, a life in which animals are part of the... |  A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and CultureBest Price: $27.00 Ok I love this text. I used this and its sister text on Romans for my ancient history classes. I... |  Complete Works of TacitusBest Price: $12.50 I have just started reading Tacitus, but I want to respond and thereby get rid of your... |  The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical GreeceBest Price: $12.93 This study of Greek hoplite warfare explains the infantry practices of the remote past with... |
 Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World MythsBest Price: $57.95 This text is interesting in that it reads more like an anthology than a textbook. It is mostly... |  A Coloring Book of Incas, Aztecs and MayasBest Price: $2.48 I ordered the "A Coloring book of Incas, Aztec and Mayas" for my art students, as part... |  The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450Best Price: $16.50 This is a good comprehensive overview of 'science' from prehistory to pre-Scientific Revolution... |  The Western Heritage: Combined Volume (9th Edition)Best Price: $75.00 Written by leading scholars in the field, this authoritative text presents an engaging and... |  Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the WorldBest Price: $7.25 I bought a cheap used copy of _Sailing from Byzantium_ from a 3rd party vendor on Amazon. The... |
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