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 Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's HistoryBest Price: $17.13 I picked up this book in preparation for a class trip to Turkey to look at architecture and... |  Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the WorldBest Price: $8.45 This is a terrific book that really covers the best and the brightest of Italian culture. ... |  Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces, 1990-2005Best Price: $11.10 This is a wonderful book. Literally. That is, it is full of wonders. At his not infrequent best... |  The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore (Dover Books on Anthropology and Folklore)Best Price: $8.36 this book has been of utmost help to me, since I've been working on my degree essay, which... |  Augustine: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $4.52 A country-boy-come-to-town who tries to make his mark on secular society while enjoying himself... |
 Jerusalem's Temple Mount: From Solomon to the Golden DomeBest Price: $22.37 This 2007 book about the Temple Mount/al-Sharif in Jerusalem/Quds is a very worthy update of... |  Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient GreeceBest Price: $26.70 Dr. Connelly has produced an outstanding piece of work on the subject matter. I highly... |  The Oxford History of the Biblical WorldBest Price: $10.00 This book relates history to the Bible, giving readers a new perspective on world events at the... |  Who Built the Moon?Best Price: $6.88 On the INTERESTING side, the claimed mathematical relationships surrounding the Earth, Moon, and... |  Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament IsraelBest Price: $19.63 I've read this book twice now, and I keep it on hand as a reference particularly when I am doing... |
 Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?Best Price: $10.98 For someone like me without no expert knowledge but a continued interest in the history behind... |  The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient MysteriesBest Price: $11.64 A well written and well documented information on the pyramids. It does not cover ALL of the... |  Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (5th Edition)Best Price: $46.34 I'm using it with my students this semester and it appears to be a hit. Of course, some students... |  World CivilizationsBest Price: $116.95 Adler's World Civilizations is an excellent introductory survey text. The language is pleasant... |  A History Of Western Society: CompleteBest Price: $97.56 This is the book out there for A.P. European History and it is a detailed piece of literature.... |
 Genesis: Finding Our RootsBest Price: $10.77 This book tells it like it was. Because creation was finished on the 7th day, we can't know how,... |  Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek WisdomBest Price: $10.64 It is important for all Americans to understand from which ancient cultures this country was... |  The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western CivilizationBest Price: $16.47 “The last wild frontier of classical studies.” ---The Times (UK) The... |  Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece (Mentor)Best Price: $2.42 I found this book to be very thorough and descriptive. It goes into elaborate detail about each... |  The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian WomenBest Price: $8.39 I would like to say I really enjoyed this book. I found it interesting to hear several... |
 Ancient China (Treasure Chest)Best Price: $13.70 This book was supposed to come with a Chinese Caligraphy brush/ink and some instructions. That... |  Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli SocietyBest Price: $21.56 Scholarly, unbiased, thoughtful argument touching on a highly explosive, emotionally charged... |  The Histories (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $14.91 A great book! For any history buff out there, this is a must read! Herodotus clearly is the,... |  The First Emperor: China's Terracotta ArmyBest Price: $25.31 The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army is the catalog of the British Museum's exhibition... |  The Mayan Oracle: Return Path to the Stars (Book, 44 Cards, 20 Mayan Star Glyphs, 13 Numbers,and 11 Lenses of Mystery)Best Price: $20.95 I have used this material for years and I am still amazed by its significance in my spiritual... |
 Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam (Revealing Antiquity)Best Price: $18.36 The two negative reviews of this extremely learned study are so far off the mark I must honestly... |  2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012Best Price: $10.06 Over the last few days I've been reading the new book from Marie D. Jones: 2013: The End of Days... |  Church Administration HandbookBest Price: $16.95 This book is such a valuable asset for church organization. It has so much good information in... |  Constantinople: Capital of ByzantiumBest Price: $15.44 Jonathan Harris provides a service to the general reader interested in the history, culture, and... |  Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (Chronicle)Best Price: $20.00 For anyone with even a passing interest in Roman history this book is an invaluable source of... |
 The Myths of Greece and Rome (Anthropology & Folklore)Best Price: $3.79 The book description mentions that it includes ilustrations from recognized painters, but the... |  Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in MesopotamiaBest Price: $16.47 Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and... |  Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: Use the 36 Ancient Chinese Strategies to Seize the Competitive EdgeBest Price: $5.00 An excellent and profound work! The author takes the interpretation of ancient Chinese wisdom on... |  The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 AD (Making of Europe)Best Price: $17.98 This is great book, easy to read, well laid out and full of nice pictures. I did really enjoyed... |  Moon, Sun and WitchesBest Price: $24.00 Irene Silverblatt examines the effects of the Spanish conquest on women's place in Peruvian... |
 Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient MediterraneanBest Price: $25.00 I've owned this book for over a year now and still find it indispensable (I have highlighted and... |  The Living GoddessesBest Price: $14.04 I haven't quite finished but the book has held my interest thus far. The author manages to... |  Caesar, I, The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library)Best Price: $18.00 If you have bought a Loeb Classic before you already know that they are well manufactured books... |  The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology 3rd editionBest Price: $15.32 The information is good, the book itself not so much. It was SO DRY and I got annoyed at how... |  War in Human CivilizationBest Price: $20.09 WAR has the shortest title but is one of the largest books I own. It is packed with information... |
 Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient WorldBest Price: $15.00 Lost Battles, by Philip Sabin, seems to have a really good concept. Take a good war gaming plan... |  Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our time : The Mayan CalendarBest Price: $15.34 As my first book about the Mayan calendar, I was expecting to gain an understanding of it; and... |  The West: Encounters & Transformations, Concise Edition, Combined Volume (MyHistoryLab Series)Best Price: $73.59 The West: Encounters & Transformations Concise Edition is a brief version of the... |  Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural HistoryBest Price: $39.95 Wow, what a masterpiece! I started my self-conducted study of ancient Greek history with a... |  The Everything Classical Mythology Book: Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters from Ares to Zeus (Everything Series)Best Price: $5.50 While this reference is quite basic, it is easy to follow the lineage and obtain a working... |
 Libraries in the Ancient WorldBest Price: $7.43 In 642 AD the library holdings of the Serapeum at Alexandria supplied the public baths with six... |  The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking ManBest Price: $4.31 Aczel is a master craftsman and author who describes things in prose as if you might be there. I... |  On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian WarBest Price: $4.97 The greatest of all Greek historians was the Athenian general Thucydides (455-400 B.C.E.). ... |  What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient IsraelBest Price: $11.00 Where biblical studies meet arhaeology, history and literary criticism there now exists a... |  The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Catiline (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $3.85 The two tales in this were hugely influential historical essays more or less up to the early... |
 Myths of the Ancient GreeksBest Price: $7.83 This is one of the best collections of greek myths available. It presents the stories clearly... |  The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars (Wooden Books)Best Price: $6.79 This small but wonder filled book will delight any enthusiast of Mayan studies, as well as those... |  Alexander the Great at War: His army - His battles - His Enemies (General Military)Best Price: $12.47 Alexander was arguably the greatest military commander ever. Upon the assassination of his... |  The Angry Aztecs and the Incredible Incas (Horrible Histories Collections)Best Price: $8.10 There has been some criticism of the Horrible Histories as misinformed and simplistic, but this... |  Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual HealthBest Price: $8.17 I knew nothing about this subject before reading this book and I have to say as a former R.N.... |
 Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of CivilizationsBest Price: $10.61 This book is one of my favorites and is always a pleasure reading. Jonathan Sacks joins great... |  The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient GreeceBest Price: $8.00 Sure, maybe Penguin waters things down a bit to much but when it comes to reading complicated... |  Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume II: Since 1500Best Price: $45.99 I thought Vol. I was much easier to follow. Vol. II jumped from one event to another and not... | ||
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