Civilization
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Happiness: A History
$20.00 Add to cartToday, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divi… [more below]
- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142893
- Language: English
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Treasury of Medieval Illustrations
$12.95 Add to cartThe realms and reveries of the Middle Ages unfold in more than 750 black-and-white illustrations. Includes magnificent renderings of warriors, scholars, musicians, architecture, business and recreatio… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: LaCroix, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0486460126
- Language: English
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
$24.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a bette… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124404
- Language: English
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
$24.95 Read moreConceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on … [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494406
- Language: English
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
$20.00 Add to cartFilled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to th… [more below]
- Author: Brownworth, Lars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0307407969
- Language: English
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
$24.00 Add to cartAround 330 b.c., a remarkable adventurer named Pytheas set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) on the Mediterranean Sea to explore the fabled, terrifying lands of northern Europe. Re… [more below]
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002542
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6
$200.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, … [more below]
- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 3980
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0307700763
- Language: English
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
$28.43 Add to cartThis important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, “drive the Arabs i… [more below]
- Series: Edward Burlingame Book
- Author: Pryce-Jones, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1566638267
- Language: English
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The Peloponnesian War
$25.00 Add to cartFor three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian … [more below]
- Author: Kagan, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004375
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes–this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at ho
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063142899
- Language: English
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How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss
$17.95 Read morePeter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the problems that undermine our Western civilization, along with ways to address them. “These essays are not new proposals or solutions
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1621642682
- Language: English
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The Story of Egypt
$17.95 Add to cartThe story of the world’s greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that have shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories–an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes… [more below]
- Author: Fletcher, Joann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1681774569
- Language: English
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
$20.00 Add to cartMary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Ale… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0871408597
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
$21.99 Read moreEverything you should know–but PC professors won’t teach–about Western heritage.
Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of huma- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Esolen, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1596980591
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules–For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, r- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611692
- Language: English
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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
$40.99 Add to cart“We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life.” So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians decla… [more below]
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 09 2018
- ISBN10: 019023430X
- Language: English
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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
$16.99 Add to cartA stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been… [more below]- Author: Gopnik, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541699343
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 1: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times
$27.95 Add to cartWhat terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi’s tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emper… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World: History for the Classical Child (Hardcover)
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1933339012
- Language: English
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Ancient African Kingdoms: A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the M
$18.97 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa and the Kingdom of Kush, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Ancient Africa: A Captivating Guide to Ancient A
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647489245
- Language: English
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Story of Philosophy
$20.99 Add to cartThis brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world’s great philosophers–Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 1967
- ISBN10: 067120159X
- Language: English
