Early Civilization Books


Greeks and Romans in the Modern World Best Price: $2.44 I read this book for my senior seminar while studying abroad in Rome. I can safely say that it...	The Education of a Canadian: My Life As a Scholar and Activist Best Price: $69.35 This captivating memoir by one of Canada's pre-eminent and honored scholars records a life...	The History of Al-Tabari: The Ancient Kingdoms (Tabari//History of Al-Tabari/Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk)	On True and False Ideas, New Objections to Descartes' Meditations and Descartes' Replies (Studies in the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $155.47 This is a translation of "Des Vraies et des Fausses Idees" by Antoine Arnauld, in...	Mesopotamia and the East (Monograph / Oxford University Committee for Archaeology) The fortunes of Mesopotamia were intimately tied in a variety of different relationships with...



William Blakes Great Task	Deep Roots?: A Fresh Look at the Origins of Some Quaker Ideas	At The Edge of the Corrupting Sea (J.L. Myers Memorial Lecture) Best Price: $14.99 Recent historical debates have disputed the nature of Mediterranean history, and the different...	Nineveh and Its Remains (Gorgias Reprint), vol I (v. 1) Best Price: $44.27 This book describes the discovery of Assyrian sites in Nineveh, Iraq. It intersperses journeys...	Berkshire Encyclopedia Of World History: Five Volume Set Best Price: $275.00 An impressive and exhaustive collaboration of authors and editors William H. McNeill, David...



The Field Guide to Early Man An illustrated introduction to the evolution of man, from the early hominids to the present day.	Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and Mythology Best Price: $86.19 This book presents itself as a scholarly look at the figure of Melusine, best-known as the...	The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects Best Price: $79.89 The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects delves into the history of the western Christian...	The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns Best Price: $64.13 This volume is a collection of essays by various contributors in honor of the late Laurence...	Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature Best Price: $11.94 Armesto's approach to history is driven by ecological concerns, showing how a particular...

Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age Best Price: $25.55 Will Durant's "Heroes of History" is the product of many years of dutiful...	Decline of the West: Form and Actuality, Part 2 Best Price: $69.99 1939. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766138089. Volume 2 of a 2 volume set....	Antonio Ros De Olano's Experiments in Post-Romantic Prose, 1857-1884: Between Romanticism and Modernism (Hispanic Literature) Best Price: $155.47 This study seeks to identify Ros de Olano's specific innovations and departures from...	The Vespasiano Memoirs: Lives of Illustrious Men of the XVth Century (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series) Best Price: $21.57 Vespasiano da Bisticci (b. 1421) was a Florentine bookseller known as the most celebrated dealer...	The Wisdom of Love (Texts and Contexts) Best Price: $12.93 The Wisdom of Love examines the seemingly contradictory claims of universalism and partisanship...

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History) Best Price: $2.41 In my opinion Cahill got it right. By 'it' I mean the voice and tone with which to...	Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Best Price: $71.79 This is one of the few books to actually transcend its nominal domain (comparative...	Introduction to Simulation and SLAM For the first time, with both the presentation of a simulation language and the material needed...	The Ancient Greeks For Dummies Best Price: $10.99 I wanted to see which book would be a better introduction to Ancient Greece: The Idiot's...	Progress: Fact or Illusion? Best Price: $75.00 Progress, perhaps the fundamental secular belief of modern Western society, has come under heavy...

Sources of World History, Volume I Best Price: $79.49 From constitutional documents, political theory, and philosophy, to imaginative literature and...	Foundations in the Dust: Story of Mesopotamian Exploration Best Price: $137.82 Frontis. + 216 pp. & 80 illus., 8vo.	Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival Best Price: $289.88 Arktos is the first book ever written on the archetype of the Poles: celestial and terrestrial,...	Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology (University of California publications)	Over the Edge: Remapping the American West Best Price: $6.50 From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse,...

The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity 200-1000 AD (Making of Europe) Peter Brown, professor of History at Princeton University, has written an amazing work. While so...	St Petersburg: A Cultural History Best Price: $20.62 A compelling portrait of a city and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy-written by a...	Medieval Astrology in Manuscripts Best Price: $5.02 In the Middle Ages the art of predicting earthly events and human characteristics from the...	Crooked Timber of Humanity Best Price: $15.85 The best essay here is the one on Joseph de Maistre whom Berlin shows convincingly as one of the...	Food of the Gods : The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

Newton's Gift : How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World	State Formation in Early China (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) Best Price: $24.94 My own main interest is history and while there is a bit of history in this book the main focus...	The Oracles of the Ancient World: A Comprehensive Guide (Duckworth Archaeology) Best Price: $135.08 My apologies, I wasn't able to access and correct the star-rating in my previous review....	Celtic Leinster: Towards an Historical Geography of Early Irish Civilization, A.D. 500-1600 (Celtic & Medieval Studies)	Pushing Time away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna David Oppenheim's grandson, the philosopher Peter Singer, never knew his grandfather, for...

Encyclopedia of Empires of the World	After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse Best Price: $388.34	Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons From The English Renaissance Best Price: $71.97 If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with "black boxes," their...	The Search for the Individual/The Quest for the Individual: Roots of Western Civilization The book consists of 25 articles by various scholars on the absence and presence of...	The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography Best Price: $21.95 The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the...

Assembler for the IBM PC and PC XT The book gets better with each edition. The author adds more detail in the description of...	Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth (The Daily Life Through History Series) Best Price: $14.27 The Aztecs themselves are incredibly fascinating and "Daily Life of the Aztecs" does a...	The Axemaker's Gift Best Price: $6.25 Technology began as soon as humans determined to use tools. Burke and Ornstein call these...	Islam, Muslims and America: Understanding the Basis of Their Conflict Best Price: $19.56	The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization Best Price: $3.75 David Hillman's book "The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western...

Civilization in the West: To 1500 Best Price: $60.46 This book was used as a textbook at my college. Although it contains tons of information, most...	The West: Encounters & Transformations, Volume B (1300-1815) (2nd Edition) Best Price: $74.99 The West: Encounters & Transformations takes a new approach to telling the story of...	History of Marxian Economics (Radical Economics S.) (Vol 2) Follows on from the first volume which dealt with the period from the death of Marx in 1883 to...	British History 1660-1832 (British Studies) Best Price: $49.75 This is an interpretative study of the idea of Britain, examining the transformation of a...	An Unfinished History of the World Best Price: $245.38 I first read this book in grad school and found it to be one of the most fascinating books I...

Enlightenment Geography (Studies in Modern History) Best Price: $121.73 This is a study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical...	In Search of Civil Society Best Price: $88.97 Civil society has become a dominant concept in politics and the social sciences. But what does...	Social Psychology and Modernity "...clearly written in an accessible style, it is also very engaging...the book should...	How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Best Price: $6.54 A thoroughly enjoyable book. It is factually very detailed but reads with the ease of a well...	Greeks and Romans in the Modern World Best Price: $2.44 I read this book for my senior seminar while studying abroad in Rome. I can safely say that it...

The Education of a Canadian: My Life As a Scholar and Activist Best Price: $69.35 This captivating memoir by one of Canada's pre-eminent and honored scholars records a life...	The History of Al-Tabari: The Ancient Kingdoms (Tabari//History of Al-Tabari/Ta'rikh Al-Rusul Wa'l-Muluk)	On True and False Ideas, New Objections to Descartes' Meditations and Descartes' Replies (Studies in the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $155.47 This is a translation of "Des Vraies et des Fausses Idees" by Antoine Arnauld, in...	Mesopotamia and the East (Monograph / Oxford University Committee for Archaeology) The fortunes of Mesopotamia were intimately tied in a variety of different relationships with...	William Blakes Great Task

Deep Roots?: A Fresh Look at the Origins of Some Quaker Ideas	At The Edge of the Corrupting Sea (J.L. Myers Memorial Lecture) Best Price: $14.99 Recent historical debates have disputed the nature of Mediterranean history, and the different...	Nineveh and Its Remains (Gorgias Reprint), vol I (v. 1) Best Price: $44.27 This book describes the discovery of Assyrian sites in Nineveh, Iraq. It intersperses journeys...	Berkshire Encyclopedia Of World History: Five Volume Set Best Price: $275.00 An impressive and exhaustive collaboration of authors and editors William H. McNeill, David...	Heritage of World Civilizations, The, Combined Volume (8th Edition) Best Price: $69.97 This comprehensive yet accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to...

Plato to Nato (BBC) A collection of 14 essays on political thought. They span thinkers such as Plato, Machiavelli,...	The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations Best Price: $12.13 Wonderful overview and introduction to the cultures of ancient civilization. Of note is the...	The Unperfect Society : Beyond the New Class Best Price: $110.34 Djilas's explains that Marxist ideology, and especially marxist philosophy...	The West Transformed: A History of Western Civilization Best Price: $46.75 THE WEST TRANSFORMED is a comprehensive introductory Western civilization or European history...	A Brief History of the Western World, Volume 1 Best Price: $35.28 Contains chapters 1-10 of the comprehensive text.

What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West Best Price: $14.16 Renowned archaeologist David Wengrow creates here a vivid new account of the "birth of...	The Elsewhere Community (Massey Lectures) Best Price: $1.65 "The Elsewhere Community" examines the role of "elsewhere"...	Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire Best Price: $2.99 "Following Hadrian" is a quite compelling book. Hard to categorize, though; Elizabeth...	Early Modern Human Evolution in Central Europe: The People of Dolnï¿1/2 V&estonice and Pavlov The Dolnï¿1/2 V&estonice Studies Volume 12 (Human Evolution Series) Best Price: $325.00 This is primary descriptive volume on the most important paleontological site for research into...	Civilization in the West, Volume C (since 1789) (7th Edition) Best Price: $76.99 This book was for a course in college. I received the book in plenty of time to read it before...

The Western Heritage: Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Combined Volume (6th Edition) Best Price: $65.00 This highly visual brief survey of Western civilization presents an exceptionally balanced...	The Heritage of World Civilizations: Volume 1 (9th Edition) Best Price: $85.00 Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, The Heritage of World Civilizations ...	Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society Best Price: $14.07 This review is of the 2nd edition, there is now a third edition. Thrower concisely outlines...	Get More from the Atari	Shaping Losses: CULTURAL MEMORY AND THE HOLOCAUST Best Price: $49.92 "Shaping Losses" explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are...

The Ancient Engineers (MIT Press paperbacks in the history of science & technology) Best Price: $76.83 From the dawn of history to the rise of the scientific method in the sixteenth and seventeenth...	Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 12 (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Best Price: $46.56	A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Vol. V: The Individual Best Price: $6.18 This six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of...	Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto) Best Price: $20.19 There are many reasons why World War I has been labeled THE GREAT WAR: it was the war to end all...	How the Irish Saved Civilization : The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Best Price: $6.99 "How The Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill, as narrated by Donal Donnelly. 6...

Children of the Night Best Price: $29.99 This study of the many manifestations of the vampire myth from Beowulf to Buffy explores what it...	Sources of the Western Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Renaissance to the Present Best Price: $24.90 This is an excellent collection of primary sources. I use it in some of my courses.	A History of Western Society, Complete Best Price: $73.70 This is the book out there for A.P. European History and it is a detailed piece of literature....	Representations and Contradictions: Ambivalence Towards Images, Theatre, Fiction, Relics and Sexuality This is an investigation of how societies and cultures in different times and places have...	The Archaeology of Islam (Social Archaeology) Best Price: $114.68 This book examines the archaeological implications of Islam as a force which can act upon all...

The Roman World: A Sourcebook Best Price: $35.89 The 57 documents in this sourcebook introduce readers to many of the major topics of Roman...	Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics Best Price: $32.33 This groundbreaking collection brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on...

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