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Empire Autopsy: The Rise and Fall of the Persian Empire A groundbreaking analysis of thirteen centuries of Persian imperial governance and its enduring lessons for contemporary political systems In ……続きを見る

Empire Autopsy: How the Mongols Conquered the World and Lost Themselves A revolutionary examination of history's greatest empire reveals how unprecedented success planted the seeds of inevitable col……続きを見る

Este es un libro sobre Shanghai, uno de esos lugares mágicos donde las personas han buscado incesantemente sus propios deseos. Es también una crónica de la vida en una megalópolis que está construid……続きを見る

Empire Autopsy: How Rome Died of Its Own Strength A groundbreaking reexamination of Rome's fall that reveals how history's greatest empire collapsed not from external enemies, but from the very stre……続きを見る

Psychoanalyse ist weit mehr als nur eine Therapieform – sie ist ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis der unsichtbaren Kräfte, die unser Leben formen. In Tiefen der Seele – Wie die Psychoanalyse unser Denke……続きを見る

A foundational document in the history of law, this volume presents one of the earliest known legal codes from ancient Mesopotamia, issued by Babylonian King Hammurabi around 1760 BC. It details a c……続きを見る

Assyria was a great and powerful country lying on the Tigris. A mountainous region extending as far as to the high mountain range of Armenia, the Gordiaean or Carduchian mountains. "The capital of A……続きを見る

Les documents que j’ai, comme homme, le plaisir et, comme Occidental, la honte de publier m’ont été remis, parmi d’autres, par des amis chinois rencontrés au cours d’un voyage qui m’a permis d’obser……続きを見る

Mediaeval Byways by L. F. Salzman is a scholarly exploration of various aspects of medieval life, society, and history, offering an in-depth look at the everyday realities of the Middle Ages. The bo……続きを見る

This book deals with the history and the evolution of Hebrew and Jewish religion. “We have been so accustomed to regard the Jewish religion as a part of our own, and so to look at it from within, th……続きを見る

In "Royalty in All Ages," T. F. Thiselton-Dyer presents a comprehensive exploration of the concept of royalty across various cultures and historical epochs. The book intricately weaves together inte……続きを見る

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast……続きを見る

Peu de spectacles donnent au même degré que les ruines de Carthage l’impression de l’oubli qui recouvre les grandeurs du passé. Nulle part le Delenda Carthago ne vous saisit comme une aussi poignant……続きを見る

Uma narrativa sobre os lugares e as personalidades que moldaram o mundo, da pré-história à atualidade. Uma narrativa da humanidade em 50 lugares, da pré-história à atualidade. Mais do que uma viagem……続きを見る

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2023 This well-researched work provides a useful discussion of the historical, cultural, and commercial aspects of chocolate. - Library Journal **Chocolate is nea……続きを見る

Este libro contiene uno de los secretos mejor guardados de nuestro tiempo: para entender Europa, es imprescindible conocer la vida de San Benito y la Regla monástica que escribió. Quizá, más que un ……続きを見る

The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of todays secondlargest world religion. But ……続きを見る

В книге осуществлена ещё одна попытка переосмыслить или как-то обосновать некоторые факты, дошедшие до наших дней в легендах и мифах различных народов (Шумеров, Вавилона, Греков, Рима, Египта и т.д.……続きを見る

For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across at the shores of Asia. The history of this cityーknown as Byzantium, t……続きを見る

“With his characteristic eloquence and lucid insights. . . Cantor offers a splendid and accessible portrait of the cultures of the ancient world.”ーPublishers Weekly Bestselling author Norman Cantor……続きを見る

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''No better explanation of medievalism is available to the general reader.'' --Booklist A revised and expanded edition of Norman Cantor's splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle Ages, c……続きを見る

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Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known pla……続きを見る

In "The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature," C.-F. Volney presents a profound exploration of temporality and civilization's cyclic nature. This philosophical t……続きを見る

How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Brita……続きを見る

An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, idea……続きを見る

When John died, on October 19, 1216, the issue of the war between him and the barons was still doubtful. The arrival of Louis of France, eldest son of King Philip Augustus, had enabled the barons to……続きを見る

The Western Roman Empire collapsed more than 1500 years ago, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost a thousand more years. When the west collapsed, no one questioned why. It was simply t……続きを見る

Der Autor beschreibt die Entwicklung der ägyptischen Waffen vom Faustkeil bis zur mobilen Kampfplattform, dem Streitwagen, und den Weg von der Jagdgemeinschaft bis zum stehenden Heer. Womit machten ……続きを見る