This book is an excellent introduction to the novice in the field of cultural anthropology and frankly should be required reading for college freshmen who aspire to a well rounded liberal arts education. The author has taken several...Read more
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Saturday, March 28, 2020 - 00:11
The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.
In 1941, Professor Richard Evan...Read more
Friday, March 27, 2020 - 23:47
An astonishing book that will lead to rewrite the history of mankind. An unexplored world, a journey beyond the boundaries of human history. From over five thousand years India and Pakistan seem to guard jealously a forgotten past, a...Read more
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 23:32
The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major architectural innovations were made during this time including the medieval castle, the...Read more
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 23:31
Magic Doors? Alchemical Doors? Mystical Doors? Interdimensional doors?
Italy, here and there hides testimonies from a distant past, testimonies that lead back to an era - for another always current ... - in which Man has tried to...Read more
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 23:27
The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come. The Athenian navy built a civilization, empowered the world...Read more
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 23:26
Compelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
- Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece
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Friday, March 20, 2020 - 17:42
“The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern France . . . A rapturous guide through five major Ice Age sites” (Archaeology).
The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology...Read more
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 17:35
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.
Evoking every aspect of city life...Read more
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 17:32
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure?
What happens when we die? A...Read more
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 15:56
In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created a cultural network that spanned four continents: from the Caspian Sea to the North Atlantic and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. The Viking Age was a period of major...Read more
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 15:56
Perhaps the most intriguing of ancient Egypt's rulers, Akhenaten is in many ways also the most mysterious. Loved by those that followed him, and his wife Nefertiti, he was hated by the Amun priesthood, who before and during his childhood...Read more
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 15:55
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome....Read more
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 15:51
‘King Arthur’s Wars’ describes one of the biggest archaeological finds of our times; yet there is nothing new to see. There are secrets hidden in plain sight. We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman...Read more
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 15:48
Tales are often told marking the Vikings as no more than simple horn-helmeted explorers, infamous to abuse, pillage and plunder all that stood in their way. However, many of us lack to see the parallels aligned with modern culture, and...Read more
Saturday, March 14, 2020 - 15:46
How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the...Read more
Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 15:32
La Serenissima. Its breathtaking architecture, art, and opera ensure that Venice remains a perennially popular destination for tourists and armchair travelers alike. Yet most of the available books about this magical city are either...Read more
Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 15:31
In 1911, American historian Hiram Bingham publicized the finding of what at the time was considered a “lost city” of the Inca. Though local inhabitants had known about it for century, Bingham documented and photographed the ruins of a...Read more
Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 15:31
Lost in the mists of time and legend is the true history of Britain before the arrival of the Romans and after their departure. Using ancient historical records, this book asserts that Britain was never fully conquered by the Romans but...Read more
Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 15:30
Friar Diego de Landa did all he could to wipe out Maya culture and civilization. In the famous auto-de-fe of July 1562 at Mani, as he tells us, he destroyed 5,000 "idols" and burned 27 hieroglyphic rolls. And yet paradoxically Landa's...Read more