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the Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
by Tom Holland
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval ...
ISBN: 9781408700082
Binding: Paperback Book
$35.00
$31.50
The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
by Tom Holland
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval ...
ISBN: 9781408700075
Binding: Hardback Book
$55.00
$26.95
by Nicholas David & Jonathan Driver
<p>This volume features exercises that allow students to use their knowledge of archaeological method and theory to deal with fictitious scenarios and data sets. The authors offer all new, inventive, and often witty problems that pose the same ...
ISBN: 9780812212938
Binding: Paperback Book
$50.95
The Legacy of the Sumerians in Western Civilization
by Alan Dickin
This book offers a revolutionary new synthesis of ancient history and religion by bridging the gap between the archaeology of Mesopotamia (now the country of Iraq) and the biblical account of Genesis. Professor Alan Dickin shows how the ...
ISBN: 9780761837770
Binding: Paperback Book
$51.95
Places, Paths and Monuments
by Christopher Tilley
Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance ...
ISBN: 9780854969197
Binding: Hardback Book
$194.95
Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture
by Christopher Caudwell
ISBN: 9780853452188
Binding: Paperback Book
$62.95
A Contemporary Perspective
by Gregory L. Possehl
The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state ...
ISBN: 9780759101722
Binding: Paperback Book
$75.95
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 5)
by Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited with introduction, notes, and appendices by J.B. Bury, D.Litt., LL.D., in seven volumes. This is volume 5.
ISBN: 9780809592395
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$42.95
Ahmad Ibn Yusuf Al Tifaschi's Best Thoughts on the Best of Stones
by Samar Najm Abul Huda & Ahmad ibn Yusuf Tifashi
Although Arab contribution to the sciences is generally well known in the Western world, Arab contributions to the study of gemology are less recognized because of the lack of English-language translations of notable Arab texts. Scarecrow Press ...
ISBN: 9780810832947
Binding: Hardback Book
$129.95
World Order in the New Millennium
by Gerald S Sage
For 6,000 years, mankind has been living under the sentence of death. The author discusses whether it's the purpose of God that man will always continue that way, and provides insight into the time when mankind can expect relief from death, ...
ISBN: 9780941813037
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$27.95
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Pagan Rome
by Professor Alan Watson
Written by one of our most respected legal historians, this book analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome. As such, it offers a major new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire ...
ISBN: 9780820341187
Binding: Paperback Book
$46.95
by Edwin M. Yamauchi
In his historical-archaeological study, Yamauchi explains Persian history and culture in the context of biblical accounts, enlarging upon this connection in brief discussions of numerous topics surrounding Persian rulers, seats of government, and ...
ISBN: 9780801021084
Binding: Paperback Book
$72.95
by Austen Henry Layard & Stephanie Dalley
This book describes the discovery of Assyrian sites in Nineveh, Iraq. It intersperses journeys and descriptions of people and places with accounts of archaeological discoveries. Layard's romantic view of the countryside and local people blended ...
ISBN: 9780971309784
Binding: Paperback Book
$73.95
A Portrait of an Early Bronze Age Society
by John M. O'Shea
John M. O'Shea explores this question by employing modern archaeological theory and analysis as well as mortuary theory to build a model of an Early Bronze Age society in the eastern Carpathian Basin. He focuses on the Maros communities and ...
ISBN: 9780306453229
Binding: Hardback Book
$376.95
by Pleasant Graves, Audrey Graves & John McFarland
Subtitled Modern American Edition of Twelve Lives, this volume includes adaptations of Plutarch's biographies of the following men: Greek: Lycurgus, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Alcibiades, Alexander Roman: Coriolanus, Marcus Cato, The Gracchi, ...
ISBN: 9780979846977
Binding: Paperback Book
$29.95
A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History
by Peter Fibiger Bang & Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as ...
ISBN: 9781107022676
Binding: Hardback Book
$186.95
by James William Stanfield
A photographer and history enthusiast tours the archaeological site of the ancient Minoan civilization - Knossos - on Crete. This is primarily a book of color digital photographs, but provides brief prose for the current and historical ...
ISBN: 9780982254530
Binding: Paperback Book
$102.95
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
by Alex Mullen & Patrick James
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the ...
ISBN: 9781107013865
Binding: Hardback Book
$179.95
by Patricia Southern
A comprehensive illustrated history of the prehistoric megalithic structure at Stonehenge and those who built it. Stonehenge is the best known but least understood prehistoric monument in the British Isles. Other stone circles are impressive and ...
ISBN: 9781445605630
Binding: Hardback Book
$44.99