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A Concise Survey of Western Civilization
Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities”...
The Gifts of the Jews
How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.
The...
The Complete Story of Civilization
Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ;...
The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has...
From Bharata to India
Volume 1: Chrysee the Golden
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The origin of world civilization can be traced to the Sindhu and Sarasvati river valleys (located in present-day Pakistan) as early as 8,000 BC. Here, innovation and originality in every aspect of human endeavor, from mathematics and science to art and sports, flourished. Yet the importance of this...
The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization
A Novel Theory of Our Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The exact nature of the mind has long been a mystery. Where does it come from? What makes it so powerful? To find out, we look back to the dawn of human civilization, and at the pivotal mental shift that created early civilizations. Dr. Calleman describes what inspired the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians,...
How the West Won
The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West
Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights,...
by William Scott-Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Lost Lemuria - The Story of the Lost Civilization (Ancient Mysteries Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The object of this study about the lost continent of Lemuria and its inhabitants is to establish...
The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance
A Sourcebook, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period. For this edition, a new chapter on Dante and his time provides a useful transition to the Renaissance from the culture of the Middle Ages....
by Henry Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Making sense of our universe...It's an age-old practice that transcends cultures and generations. From our vantage point, the larger than life Maya civilization grappled with the urge in a grand scale. Join us as we take a voyage to understand the ways of the Maya.
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Fishing
How the Sea Fed Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing—not as sport but as sustenance—archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth...
by Todd Andrew Rohrer
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
A detailed explanation of the cult called Civilization. Also topics relative to ghost people and methods relative to ghost people, who are a hidden aspects
of said cult. This document contains information relative to ghost people. That should be considered before purchase if you are not one.
by Ian Crofton, Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A lively history of the universe and human civilization, this authoritative volume tells the story of the cosmos, the stars, and human development on earth.
The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into...
Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention.
Volume I begins in the second millennium BC with The Descent of Ishtar and ends...