Civilization & Culture Books


An Agenda for the 21st Century Best Price: $4.92 "If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one," the British author John...	The Quest for Eternity: Manners and Morals in the Age of Chivalry. [Orig. pub. as The Age of Chivalry.] Best Price: $19.95 This book is a history of Medieval Europe. It is divided into 4 sections: a prologue covering...	Cultures in Motion: Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History Best Price: $35.69 When different cultures come in contact with one another, the impact on the course of history...	Geography Tools & Concepts (World Explorer Series) Best Price: $3.95	Kingston: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination) Best Price: $10.62 I found Kingston to be a refreshing and candid look at Jamaica's capital. Having grown up...



Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations, Second Edition, Volume 1: From the Ancient Near East through the Age of Absolutism Best Price: $8.50 From the ancient near east to contemporary times, Perspectives from the Past offers a rich...	Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History Best Price: $59.99 I am a professional hairdresser and hairdressing historian. I was terribly disappointed when I...	Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis Best Price: $84.04 Brown wrote this one well into his 80s and you can see age taking its toll on him. The book...	Aspects of Western Civilizations: Problems and Sources in History, Volume 2 (6th Edition) (Problems and Sources in History) Best Price: $43.04 It is nice to see history through the eyes of the people who lived it. I prefer the personal...	Ideas and Adventures, 1200 to 1700 Best Price: $14.24 In this outstanding book we travel through history, five centuries, in a definitely unique way....



The Other Side of Western Civilization, Volume I (Other Side of Western Civilization) Best Price: $69.88 The readings in this book focus on the life experiences of people from all ranks of society:...	Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Part 1, Paper and Printing Best Price: $275.49 Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the...	A Handbook for Living in Turkey Best Price: $16.00 I highly recommend this book. It is always difficult doing business in strange countries and...	Worldly Goods Best Price: $1.50 Lisa Jardine shows us that the Renaissance featured just as much competition, consumerism,...	The American West, Second Edition: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present Best Price: $10.29 The American We st is the only book-length historical overview of the post-1900 American West....

A History of Chinese Civilization Best Price: $18.00 Is anyone familiar with the difference between the 1982 edition and the newer revised edition? ...	According to the Evidence: My Proof of Man's Extraterrestrial Origins I first read this book when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I didn't understand a lot of what...	The Elsewhere Community (Massey Lectures) Best Price: $1.60 I had never heard of Hugh Kenner until a local radio station replayed the Massey Lectures ( a...	Teach Yourself World Cultures: Japan (Teach Yourself) Concise, engaging introductions to vibrant civilizations These new titles in the popular...	Western Civilization: From the Origins of Civilization to the Age of Absolutism (Perspectives on History) Best Price: $44.00 The first volume of Perspectives on Western Civilization , covering the Neolithic Revolution...

Conversations with Edward Said (Conversations With) Best Price: $13.64 Edward Said is a prolific interviewee and this is only the most recently released of a number of...	Amazeing Art: Wonders of the Ancient World Best Price: $19.50 I love it! The combination of fun mazes and interesting text is unique, exciting, fun,...	Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (American Crossroads, 1) Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José...	Phoenicia: History of a Civilization Best Price: $25.76 This book by Rawlinson was probably very good in its day, but unfortunately it was written in...	The Cultural Atlas of Islam Best Price: $89.95 This is a BEAUTIFUL book! It is an oversized volume that covers the essential theology...

Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford Best Price: $19.99 Scientific management: technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein...	El libro de los muertos (Misterios de la historia) Best Price: $6.26 A passionate journey through the greatest enigmas of the past, this series seeks the answers to...	Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy Best Price: $80.00 This volume--a collection of essays dedicated to one of this century's most distinguished...	Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections This I a beautiful collection of work from the most important thinkers of our time. John Zerzan...	The Humanistic Tradition (Book 1: The First Civilizations and the Classical Legacy) Best Price: $4.41 this is a smaller version of a bigger set.. these are nice sort of like excerpts from a larger...

Great Issues In Western Civilization, Vol. II, From Louis Xiv Through The Cold War Best Price: $50.00 I read parts of this book for my IB and AP European History class. I did not like it as much as...	Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 20 Best Price: $89.00 Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in...	When Was Latin America Modern? (Studies of the Americas) Best Price: $69.93 Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists for decades. Did...	Life against death: The psychoanalytical meaning of history Brown presents a psychoanalytic theory of culture and history. The essence of this theory is...	Greece and Rome: Builders of our world (The Story of man) Best Price: $15.00 This text is an excellent introduction to the Greek and Roman civilizations. It is well...

In the Next Three Seconds Best Price: $14.95 GREAT book. Quick, easy read for or to children but interesting for the reader also. Full of...	Magic, Science, and Civilization (Bampton Lectures in America)	A History of Civilizations Best Price: $11.37 Braudel is considered one of the great 20th c. historians. He fought the French educational...	Lost Time: On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture) Best Price: $28.63 What is the value of memory in human culture? More specifically, what role should remembering --...	Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War Best Price: $37.34 This was purchased as a Christmas gift for my husband, and I'd love to be able to review it....

What Happened to Their Kids: Children of the Rich and Famous Best Price: $1.98	Erich Von Daniken: In Search of the Gods Best Price: $25.00	Breakout : The Origins of Civilization (Peabody Museum Monographs No. 9) Best Price: $20.00 For much of the twentieth century, Mesopotamia was thought to he the singular "Cradle of...	Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People Best Price: $48.32 Two important elements of social "habit memory" processes strike me in Pathways of...	Between Past and Future: 2 Hannah Arendt was the kind of deep thinker who is sorely needed in our world. Santayana's...

Creation: Artists, Gods, and Origins Best Price: $17.19 A new history of Western civilization told through creation myths from the past two thousand...	The Egyptian Book of Life: A True Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Featuring Original Texts and Hieroglyphs Best Price: $18.99 Its so fascinating to find out that Egypt had incorporated Breathing Techniques and Yoga into...	Latin Culture and Medieval Germanic Europe: Proceedings from the First Germania Latina Conference Held at the University of Groningen, 26 May 1989 (Mediaevalia Groningana) Best Price: $34.00	Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United States) Best Price: $38.50 One of the largest contributions of this book is its effort to combine economic history with...	Take today; the executive as dropout Best Price: $183.40

Heritage of Chinese Civilization, The (2nd Edition) Best Price: $37.60 For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A clear and...	Atlas of African-American History (Facts on File Library of American History) Best Price: $62.66 This excellent atlas of facts should be in the holdings of any serious Afro-American reference...	An Intellectual History Of Modern Europe Best Price: $84.25 This book is awesome. It highlights some of the all time best itellecutals such as Augustine,...	American Cultural Studies: A Reader Best Price: $47.25 American Cultural Studies: A Reader shows how the burgeoning field of cultural studies has...	Impresiones Best Price: $55.35 I just finished taking Spanish classes at one of the author's universities using this book to...

Predictions: Society's Telltale Signature Reveals Past & Forcasts the Future Best Price: $34.88 Or, everything you ever wanted to know about the S-curve and why it all makes sense in the end. ...	RACE DISCOURSE ORIGIN AMER	The Power of Symbols in Religion and Culture	Western Civilization: People and Progress

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