What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Wengrow David)(Paperback)

What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Wengrow David)(Paperback)

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? archaeologist David Wengrow investigates the origins of farming, writing, and

The Ancient Near East (Podany Amanda H.)(Paperback)

The ancient Near East is known as the 'cradle of civilization'--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and

A History of the Ancient Near East, Ca. 3000-323 BC (Van de Mieroop Marc)(Paperback)

Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of

Ancient Near East: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Including Regions Such as Mesopotamia, Ancient Iran, (History Captivating)(Paperback)

If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Near East, then keep reading...Where did the first signs of civilization appear in the ancient world? When did people start to transition from the nomadic life of hunters and gatherers to living in the first urbanized settlements? Who

Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible (Walton John H.)(Paperback)

Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World (Matyszak Philip)(Pevná vazba)

The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been unjustly forgotten. Our history is overflowing with different cultures that have all evolved over

Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians (Colarusso John)(Paperback)

The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two

Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East (Tsuneki Akira)(Pevná vazba)

What Is Ecological Civilization: Crisis, Hope, and the Future of the Planet (Clayton Philip)(Paperback)

The present trajectory of life on this planet is unsustainable, and the underlying causes of our environmental crisis are inseparable from our social and economic systems. The massive inequality between the rich and the poor is not separate from our systems of unlimited growth, the depletion of

The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East - Nicholas Morton

How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages.For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same

Hidden History: Ancient Aliens and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization (Willis Jim)(Paperback)

Investigates and questions the scientific consensus on the origins of civilization Do we, the human species, really know who we are or where we came from or how we originated or our place in the cosmos? Or is much of what we have been taught wrong or misguided or possibly even blatant lies

A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century (Holcombe Charles)(Paperback)

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient

The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church (Torrance Thomas F.)(Paperback)

Cutting across the divide between East and West and between Catholic and Evangelical, Thomas F. Torrance illuminates our understanding of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Torrance combines here the Gospel and a theology shaped by Karl Barth and the Church Fathers, and offers his readers a unique

History of the Persian Empire (Olmstead A. T.)(Paperback)

Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. 'The fullest and most reliable

Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction (Radner Karen)(Paperback)

Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria in

The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt (Tyldesley Joyce)(Paperback / softback)

The civilization we know as Ancient Egypt stretched over three thousand years. What was life like for ancient Egyptians? What were their beliefs - and how different were they from ours? This title uses Egypt's narratives to create a panorama of its history, from the earliest settlers to the time of

What's Inside?: Spacecraft (West David)(Paperback / softback)

Explore the inner-workings of six types of popular vehicles and find out what makes them

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (Saikia Yasmin)(Paperback)

Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an

Why The West Rules - For Now - The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future (Morris Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science

Partners of First Resort: America, Europe, and the Future of the West (McKean David)(Paperback)

Fostering a transatlantic renaissance to salvage the Western allianceIs the Western alliance, which brought together the United States and Europe after World War II, in an inevitable state of decline, and if so, can anything be done to repair it? There seems little doubt that fragmentation of the

Civilization - The West and the Rest (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate the Rest for most of the next half

Orientalist - In Search of a Man caught between East and West (Reiss Tom)(Paperback / softback)

The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and

The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition (Corballis Michael C.)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind unique The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the

Carthage Must Be Destroyed - The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Miles Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage and Rome. In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy