Cultural Region/North Africa
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Morocco – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights–get to know the people.
Morocco is a joy to the senses. Graced with spectacular scenery, the country’s rich history is carved into its architecture and baked into its cuisi- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: York, Jillian C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1787023044
- Language: English
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Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history’s bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain nea
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699254
- Language: English
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The Shield and the Sword
$22.00 Add to cartAn authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege.
Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights H- Author: Bradford, Ernle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1497637961
- Language: English
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Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty
$35.00 Read moreA vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt’s history–1550 BC to 1295 BC–that tears away the gold and glamour to reveal how these great pharaohs ruthlessly ruled Egypt for two hundred an… [more below]
- Author: de Jes?s, Gerardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363068
- Language: English
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
$18.95 Read moreFrom the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882403
- Language: English
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Inside the Battle of Algiers
$29.95 Add to cartThis gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the… [more below]
- Author: Drif, Zohra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1682570754
- Language: English
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Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
$42.95 Add to cartThe Romans’ destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal’s life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every in… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976865
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097421
- Language: English
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination — mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generati- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Shaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198845464
- Language: English
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Ages in Chaos I: From the Exodus to King Akhnaton
$39.99 Add to cartThis is the first volume of the series Ages in Chaos, in which Immanuel Velikovsky undertakes a reconstruction of the history of antiquity. With utmost precision and the exciting style of a presentati
- Series: Ages in Chaos #1
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1906833532
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
$18.95 Add to cartThis papyrus is long known as the standard version of The Egyptian Book of the Dead. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife and this book served these beliefs for more than 3000 years. It provides ins
- Author: Budge, E. a. Wallis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1585093653
- Language: English
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir
$22.00 Add to cartThis richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later.
In elegant and witty- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426550
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
$40.83 Add to cartAn innovative account of the life of Tutankhamun, the rediscovery of his existence, and the enduring impact of the finding of his tomb, by leading Egyptologist Aidan Dodson
The spectacular discovery o- Series: Lives and Afterlives
- Author: Dodson, Aidan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1649031610
- Language: English
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History Pockets: Ancient Egypt, Grade 4 – 6 Teacher Resource
$17.99 Add to cartHistory Pockets—Ancient Egypt, Grades 4-6+, contains nine memorable discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the civilization. The other pockets give a comprehensive view of li
- Series: History Pockets
- Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 155799904X
- Language: English
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History of Ancient Egypt
$45.00 Add to cartThe ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws o… [more below]
- Series: History of Ancient Egypt #1
- Author: Romer, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1250030110
- Language: English
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Cleopatra: A Biography
$20.99 Add to cartFew personalities from classical antiquity are more famous–yet more poorly understood–than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a l… [more below]
- Series: Women in Antiquity
- Author: Roller, Duane W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0199829969
- Language: English
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartSkeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hell… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0316159352
- Language: English
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
$22.00 Add to cartThe first full-scale history of Hannibal’s Carthage in decades and “a convincing and enthralling narrative.” (The Economist )
Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master- Author: Miles, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121294
- Language: English
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Sacred Nile
$50.00 Add to cartSacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western relig… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Chester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0578851180
- Language: English
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The Ancient Celts
$34.99 Add to cartFierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. F… [more below]
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198752938
- Language: English
