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Chronicles of the Ancient World by John Haywood
Category: History
Sumeria, c.3500 BC, witnessed the birth of the world's very first city by the rich and fertile banks of the Uruk. Over the next four millennia, the social and cultural landscape would change beyond recognition as many of history's most important kingdoms and cities took root. Interweaving Mesopotamian, ...Show more
Chronicles of the Ancient World: A Complete Guide to the Great Ancient Civilizations: Mesoptamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome by John Haywood
Category: Non-Fiction
The great civilizations of the distant past never cease to amaze us with their spectacular achievements - their ideas, writings and works of art still speak to us with an amazing freshness of imagination and workmanship. This book paints a vivid, multi-faceted portrait of the achievements of those civil ...Show more
Family and Everyday Life Home by John Haywood
Category: Education | Series: Through the Ages
Investigate how essential aspects of everyday life have evolved over 10,000 years in different societies around the world. Discover what home, school and family were like in the past for rich and poor, young and old. Find out amazing facts about the lifetyles and skills of past civilisations and societi ...Show more
North Men: The Viking Saga 793-1241 AD by John Haywood
Category: History
The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic from the late 8th to the mid- ...Show more
Northmen - The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
Category: History
'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern ...Show more
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
Category: History
The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic from the late 8th to the mid- ...Show more
So You Want to Be a Viking? by Takayo Akiyama; John Haywood; Anon (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: SO YOU WANT TO BE A
An essential guide forwannabe Vikings--andfair warning for thosecourageous, or crazy,enough to pledgeallegiance to the cause. Kate, Eddie, and Angus are dazzled by pictures of Viking warriors' deadly axes and blingy swords in their library books. But when they're transported back in time to Scandinavia ...Show more
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilisations by John Haywood
Category: Non-Fiction
This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the world's earliest civilisations from the first farming settlements of Mesopotamia, via Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the civilisations of the Far East, Europe and America. Informatively w ...Show more
Timelines - The Events That Have Shaped Human History by John Haywood
Category: History
An original new way of appreciating the vast series of events that have shaped world history, allowing complete and quick comparability between different periods and regions. In Timelines, John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format. Using concise, insightfu ...Show more
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