According to the Long Count Calendar used by the Maya, the current Great Cycle which has lasted 5,125 years is to end in 2012. What will happen when this occurs has been a hot topic for many years, ……続きを見る
The Cicero Anthology is a collection of the most acute and incisive works of one of the greatest and most celebrated orators in all of history.
Cicero is still celebrated to this day for his skills ……続きを見る
著者:Ivan Kalmar
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年06月17日
The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from t……続きを見る
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on The Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battl……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Cahill
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年04月21日
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ……続きを見る
The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, which embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learnin……続きを見る
著者:Heidi Thomas
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2012年10月25日
The stories and secrets behind BBC television’s most-loved show. The official companion to series 1 and 2, as well as the forthcoming Christmas special.
The Life and Times of Call the Midwife takes ……続きを見る
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The fi……続きを見る
This Bybliotech Anthology contains Virgil's three masterpieces, the Eclogues (sometimes called the Bucolics), the Georgics, and his most famous epic poem - the Aeneid.
Virgil's classic works have st……続きを見る
From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in……続きを見る
著者:Samuel Butler
出版社: Samuel Butler
発売日: 2015年05月08日
This book is about consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mo……続きを見る
Countless myths and legends attest to the ancient sanctity of the Isle of Avalon. Yet archaeologists have long been puzzled by the absence of material evidence for prehistoric activity upon the hill……続きを見る
著者:Timothy Garton Ash
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2005年12月06日
“We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin to make it.” In his welcome alternative to the rampant pessimism about Euro-Americ……続きを見る
著者:Watkin Tench
出版社: The Perfect Library
発売日: 2013年04月10日
2 works of Watkin Tench British marine officer (1758-1833)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Watkin Tench. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selecte……続きを見る
Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploi……続きを見る
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
New York Times best-selling author Brian Fagan explores the world of the Cro-Magnons--the mysterious, little-known race, famous for its cave paintings, that survived t……続きを見る
著者:Graham Robb
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2013年10月10日
Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.
Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, mos……続きを見る
This brief, well annotated piece describes a brief history of Loyola's Jesuits and their battle for the Catholic Faith in the face of the Reformation.続きを見る
Few books before have explored the exploits, achievements, and notorious antics of ancient Rome's imperial dynasties in such readable detail. This title sets out to describe the lives of every man (……続きを見る
Understand where we came from.
Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually e……続きを見る
Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007’s "best science books" by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec. 30, 2007]. He calls it a "wonderful resource book. Tom Koppel seems to have visit……続きを見る
著者:Elaine Dewar
出版社: Random House of Canada
発売日: 2011年03月04日
Scientists not so long ago unanimously believed that people first walked to the New World from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge at the end of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago. But in the las……続きを見る
Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by T……続きを見る
On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to……続きを見る
In the space of 200 hundred years, the Mongols built the greatest empire that the world had ever known and then lost it again. At its greatest extent, the lands they held dwarfed those under the con……続きを見る
著者:Daniel J. Boorstin
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年04月11日
By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambit……続きを見る
The world order is structured in three levels; factions, authorities and collectives. Symbolically, it is a triangle, but more accurately a Pyramid.
Factions are the power at the pinnacle, the autho……続きを見る
Book two of Series. Book one is "Legacy of the Moon". This is the story of the life of Cleopatra Selene, Queen of Mauretania. She was born as a twin along with her brother Alexande……続きを見る
Fully Revised Edition. This amazing novel based on real past life experiences follows the amazing adventures of Leda, a young Atlantean girl, entering the secret world of the Initiate College. Follo……続きを見る
A Idade Média na Europa é por muitos considerada como a idade das trevas, e muitas das imagens que temos hoje em dia são das obras de ficção construídas em ……続きを見る