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The book found success in the US in an edition published by Chelsea Green under the title Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: it was featured in The New Yorker. For fans of Anna Pavord's The Tulip, Mark Kurlansky's *Cod *and Salt, Yuval Noah Harari's *Sapiens *and Marcus Chown's What a Wonderful World. Features twenty original illustrations hand-drawn by the author.

Ce livre porte sur les armoiries de femmes des origines au XVIe siècle en France. À travers une vaste étude iconographique, nous sont révélés les sources, les usages et la fonction de l’héraldique féminine. Ces connaissances s’inscrivent dans le courant d’une histoire pérenne des sociétés....

Academic rivalries, medical ethics, child brides, vegetarianism, aversion to pork, gift-giving—these and other familiar issues have a fascinating history among the diverse communities that have contributed to the Jewish tradition. Unfortunately this enthralling lore is often known only to scholarly...

‘Conspiracy!’ exposes the shocking untold history of religion and how it took over the world. Tracing its origins to a very earthly phenomenon, the book shows how fantasy, fabrication, torture, murder and genocide have underpinned seven thousand years of human history, how the institutions of...

"The Physicians of Myddfai"("Meddygon Myddvai" in Welsh), or "The medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, of Myddfai, in Carmarthenshire, physicians to Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor and Ystrad Towy", was written about the middle of the 13th century....

The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

This book treats of the Influence of the Greek Mind on Modern Life. “The vital power of the Greek spirit was indeed not fully disclosed until, after suffering a partial eclipse in the Macedonian age, it emerged in a new quality, as a source of illumination to the Italian masters of the world. Under...

*Includes diagrams of Kepler's laws and pictures of important people and places in Kepler's life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly,...

Secular humanists and other “progressives” have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem: those who were supposed to be liberated by the secular gospel that God is Dead aren’t buying it. Except for some parts of western Europe and in countries...

In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the...

Nos remontamos a los antiguos tiempos, en los que dioses, monstruos y héroes convivían con los hombres entre el hielo, el fuego, los festines y las batallas, y cuyos acontecimientos han quedado recogidos en lo que hoy llamamos mitología nórdica, fuente inagotable de sabiduría que ha servido y...

An anthropological novel about The Sentinelese who are an untouched race that live on North Sentinel Island. It is an inaccessible island in the Andaman Ocean, only 25 miles from a modern port settlement in the Andaman Islands off the coast of Burma, but belonging to India. They are unknown...

THE Roman Imperial Cult began with the first Caesar and continued until the final overthrow of paganism in the Empire. An exhaustive study of the Cult in all its ramifications would practically involve a survey of Roman history during the imperial epoch and would transcend all reasonable limits. A...

A Short World History is a quick read, covering the first civilizations until 1920.