Civilization 27

Euthyphro by Plato Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much ……続きを見る

Truth is stranger than fiction. Take yourself on a journey to early Barbados, the place where many of the founding fathers of colonial America with  thousands of settlers sojourned and catch a ……続きを見る

"Shocking. Revelatory. Compelling. A truly authentic and riveting read. A milestone in WWII and Holocaust history."-- Damien Lewis, author: The Nazi Hunters A harrowing, beautifully written and extr……続きを見る

Feng Shui, or, The Rudiments Of Natural Science In China by Ernest J. Eitel Feng Shui is much more than a way of arranging furniture for good luck. The Chinese geomancers have a very intricate set o……続きを見る

More than 3,000 years ago, a young man of seventeen named Tutankhamen became pharaoh of Egypt. His reign came toward the end of a vital period in Egypt's history when Thebes was the wealthiest and m……続きを見る

America’s greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not w……続きを見る

What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of hero……続きを見る

Turn Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Renaissance World into a high-school history course. Susan Wise Bauer’s narrative world history series is widely used in advanced high school history class……続きを見る

На деньгах мира используется различная символика. Наиболее распространенным символом в 19-21 веках является пятиконечная звезда («печать царя Соломона») значение которой изменилось до противоположно……続きを見る

Greek Mythology: Of Gods, Mortals, Monsters & Other Legends of Ancient Greece Ready for the adventures of Greek mythology? Of all the myths and legends of the ancient world, it is Greek mythology th……続きを見る

« Le monde que nous laisserons à nos enfants dépendra des enfants que nous laisserons à notre monde. » Federico Mayor, ancien directeur général de l’Unesco La réflexion sur l’action de l’humanité su……続きを見る

“The world that we leave to our children will depend on the children we leave to our world.” - FEDERICO MAYOR, former President of Unesco Study of the effect of Man’s activities on the environment i……続きを見る

This book transverses making known to Africans and to the world what is truly wrong, causes of suffering, poverty, evils, wars, strife and other forms of evils in Africa, the reason for the non-deve……続きを見る

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. 続きを見る

The story of literature in sixteen actsーfrom Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book,……続きを見る

14-18 et la crise actuelle : des répliques sismiques d'un même mouvement de fond Ce livre tente d’aller aux racines de la grande crise que notre civilisation connaît actuellement. Il analyse la séqu……続きを見る

In this book, you’ll learn about the people who introduced the “Neolithic revolution” to the world. Beginning 15,000 years ago, there was a cultural community of Black people who traveled far and wi……続きを見る

ABOUT THE BOOKIn this book, we cover over 200,000 years of Black history. For many of us, that sounds strange. We can’t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less im……続きを見る

During the 1100s, Omar Khayyám contributed to the fields of astronomy, math, poetry, and philosophy. This Renaissance man questioned the orthodoxy and academics of his time. His poetry celebrates en……続きを見る

Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo. Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new anal……続きを見る

A scathing critique of humanity set in a nuclear wasteland following the fall of the Second Soviet Union. 続きを見る

A Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs often butt up against processes, tec……続きを見る

In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the fir……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de la Macédoine antique avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La Macédoine antique est une contrée dont les limites ne sont pas fixées de façon précise. Au sud, elle est séparée……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de la néolithisation au Proche-Orient et en Turquie orientale avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! L'étude de la néolithisation au Proche-Orient offre un intérêt particulier : ……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte des Celtes avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Le nom des Celtes (Keltoi) apparaît pour la première fois dans les textes des historiens grecs du v e siècle avant J.-C., Hécaté……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte des Mérovingiens avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Placée entre deux événements parfaitement datés – l'avènement de Clovis en 481 et celui de Pépin le Bref en 751 –, l'époqu……続きを見る

Interest in extrasolar worlds is not new. From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets--a belief ……続きを見る

Trace the life in the Fertile Crescent with this past to present history reference book. This book contains data from the cultural beginnings to the rise of civilization. Ideal for students and hist……続きを見る

L’histoire d’une seule région aurait-elle conditionné celle de la terre entière ? Dans ce carnet de facéties et badinages les faits relatés se montrent extravagants, mais ils résistent à l’actualité……続きを見る