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Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTitus Pullus joined the 10th Legion in 61 BC as a young boy looking for adventure with his childhood friend. Forty-two years later, Titus looks back on the beginning of his career when he was a Legionary, Marching With Caesar, as the greatest Roman of all conducted one of the most notable military campaigns of all time, the Conquest of Gaul...Categorized as:
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![Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West]()
Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived...Categorized as:
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Los hermanos by Terence
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Adelphoe (The Brothers) of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the relationship between the generations and the proper way to bring up a son... -
![The Human Bone Manual by Tim D. White, Pieter Arend Folkens]()
The Human Bone Manual by Tim D. White, Pieter Arend Folkens
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBuilding on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information...Categorized as:
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![The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte]()
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us Though humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals...Categorized as:
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![Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber]()
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland]()
The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLook beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages...Categorized as:
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![Euclid's Elements by Euclid, Dana Densmore]()
Euclid's Elements by Euclid, Dana Densmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGreen Lion Press has prepared a new one-volume edition of T.L. Heath's translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements... -
![A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display by Neil MacGregor]()
A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display by Neil MacGregor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe blockbuster "New York Times" bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series Neil MacGregor has blazed an unusual path to international renown. As director of the British Museum, he organized an exhibit that aimed to tell the history of humanity through the stories of one hundred objects made, used, venerated, or discarded by man...Categorized as:
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![Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier]()
Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA major new look at the treasures and mysteries of Tutankhamun's tomb on the centenary of its discovery.It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to Tutankhamun's story...Categorized as:
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![The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow]()
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation...Categorized as:
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![The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham]()
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...Categorized as:
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![Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch]()
Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor this volume Ian Scott-Kilvert has selected nine of Plutarch's Roman Lives: figures whose careers range from the earliest years of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire under Octavius Caesar. The Shakespearean heroes Coriolanus, Brutus and Mark Antony have been included to illustrate Plutarch's fondness for a semi-fictional rather than a factual treatment of history...Categorized as:
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![The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation by Justo L. González]()
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation by Justo L. González
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Story of Christianity, Volume 1, is an informative, interesting, and consistently readable narrative history. It brings alive the people, dramatic events, and ideas that shaped the first fifteen centuries of Europe, such as the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the New World...Categorized as:
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![The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski]()
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLauded by critics & devoured by readers, this companion to the BBC series traces the development of science as an expression of the special gifts that characterize humans & make us preeminent animals. Bronowski's exciting, illustrated investigation offers a perspective not just on science, but on civilization itself...Categorized as:
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![Fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature: translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an Introduction by Heraclitus, of Ephesus; Patrick, George Thomas White, 1857-; Bywater, I by Heraclitus, Alexandre Costa]()
Fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature: translated from the Greek text of Bywater, with an Introduction by Heraclitus, of Ephesus; Patrick, George Thomas White, 1857-; Bywater, I by Heraclitus, Alexandre Costa
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHeraclitus formulated one of the earliest and most comprehensive theories of the nature of the world, the cosmos, and the soul. His theory that the soul pervades all parts of the universe and its inhabitants stood in contrast to the ideas of his more mechanistic contemporaries. His fragment of thoughts can be found in this translation...Categorized as:
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![The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim]()
The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of the best known and most important references on the life of Christ ever written, Alfred Edersheim's "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" is a storehouse of information on the background of the New Testament. This classic work successfully portrays the streets, the marketplaces, the religious conflicts, the people, and the places of Jesus' earthly ministry...Categorized as:
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![Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval, Thomas Brophy]()
Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval, Thomas Brophy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPresents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt• Reveals black Africa to be at the genesis of ancient civilization and the human story• Examines extensive studies into the lost civilization of the “Star People” by renowned anthropologists, archaeologists, genetic scientists, and cultural historians as well as the authors’...Categorized as:
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![On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard C. Carrier]()
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard C. Carrier
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus...Categorized as:
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![Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization by Marija Gimbutas, Joseph Campbell]()
Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization by Marija Gimbutas, Joseph Campbell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarija Gimbutas' masterpiece in a new, easily affordable paperback edition: "A dramatic story of paradise lost and rediscovered... -
![Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel]()
Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)The story of humanity is the story of textiles—as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture... -
![A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe]()
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary science of archaeogenetics.In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future...Categorized as:
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![The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter]()
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPolitical disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr...Categorized as:
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![A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver]()
A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy?In A History of Ancient Britain , much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival.There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years... -
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![Wheelock’s Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock]()
Wheelock’s Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormerly titled Wheelock’s Latin Grammar, this classic single-volume introductory Latin textbook is the perfect study guide to first-year Latin students. The book contains the time-tested elements of past editions plus new features that make the Latin language more accessible and appealing. Includes a Latin/English-English/Latin dictionary...Categorized as:
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![Who Wrote the Bible? (Perennial Library) by Richard Elliott Friedman]()
Who Wrote the Bible? (Perennial Library) by Richard Elliott Friedman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA provocative and stimulating look at the writing of the Bible and the lives of those who wrote it. A fascinating history for scholars and lovers of the Bible alike...Categorized as:
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![Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany]()
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants, bricklayers, and othersIn this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes readers on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquest of Alexander the Great...Categorized as:
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![The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas, Miriam Robbins Dexter]()
The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas, Miriam Robbins Dexter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original—and originally shocking—interpretation of prehistoric European civilization... -
![Reading Egyptian Art by Richard H. Wilkinson]()
Reading Egyptian Art by Richard H. Wilkinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe legacy of Egyptian art, from colossal statues to finely wrought jewellery and minuscule charms, can appear deceptively simple. Without knowledge of the hieroglyphic images incorporated in the art, much remains obscure... -
![Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry]()
Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dramatic story of Pompeii's destruction has been handed down to us by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery in the eighteenth century, and its houses and public buildings to this day present a vivid picture of life, disaster, and death in a Roman town...Categorized as:
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