Civilization 8

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

Pat Mestern, author of several earlier books and an ardent booster of her hometown, has produced an entertaining personal account of Fergus, while maintaining the historical perspective and utilizin……続きを見る

*Explains the history behind the creation and establishment of the Magna Carta.*Explains the influence the Magna Carta has had on Western democracy and which rights in the U.S. Constitution are deri……続きを見る

In The Romans: All That Matters, John Manley focuses on some of the fundamental aspects of the Roman Empire, especially those topics that have relevance beyond the study of Antiquity itself - how it……続きを見る

Sur la base d’une lettre identifiée (Philame, 1/4) et des distinctions de places (L’Ame Hors, 2/4) qu’elle compose, l’analyse conçoit la notion d’absence (de vide ou d’espace) dans le moment où la l……続きを見る

Niccolo Machiavelli Citizen and Secretary of Florence on The Books on the Art of War To Lorenzo Di Filippo Strozzi, A Gentleman of Florence Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that ……続きを見る

Eugen Weber delivered the Barbara Frum Historical Lecture, based on Apocalypses, at the University of Toronto in March 1999. This annual lecture "on a subject of contemporary history in historical p……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”ーLos Angeles Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEA……続きを見る

This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environ……続きを見る

The 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……続きを見る

Professor Gilbert NMO Morris is perhaps the most unusual scholar writing today. In The Triptych Papers, his unique approach to social and political questions is winnowed into questions of ethics. Es……続きを見る

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials sy……続きを見る

Journaliste et conférencier, l’auteur a réuni dans ce volume des écrits polémiques (articles et conférences). Combinant un ordre logique avec l’ordre chronologique, Aulard a classé ces écrits en tro……続きを見る

The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study brings a new-millennium examin……続きを見る

Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassador……続きを見る

*Explains how Athens and Sparta mastered warfare on land and sea, including the use of hoplites and triremes. *Discusses the lives and legacies of famous Athenians and Spartans, including Leonidas, ……続きを見る

A comprehensive study – recently updated for the eBook edition – which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD. After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal……続きを見る

Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign pre……続きを見る

This Bybliotech version of Thucydides "History of the Peloponnesian War" with unique illustrations has been compiled and optimised for e-readers. It includes an active table of contents for ease of ……続きを見る

« J’apprends que le gouvernement estime que le peuple a “trahi la confiance du régime” et “devra travailler dur pour regagner la confiance des autorités”. Dans ce cas, ne serait……続きを見る

'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the d……続きを見る

With no recent publications discussing Prometheus at length, this book provides a much-needed introduction to the Promethean myth of this rebellious god who defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind. Se……続きを見る

A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, ……続きを見る

This is a candid, sometimes controversial study of the psychological or other flaws of political, religious and economic leaders from ancient times to the present day: from Rameses II to Colonel Gad……続きを見る

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as b……続きを見る

The book discusses the illogical and aggressiveness of the three Ibrahimic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; very important how the white race created the many Christian dogmas. The attack ……続きを見る

Please note that some images were unavailable for the electronic edition. The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years. ‘The Big House’……続きを見る

"I devoured Gibbon," wrote Winston Churchill. "I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all." Gibbon's magnum opus -- which encompasses thirteen hundred years of history, swingi……続きを見る

Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he calle……続きを見る