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  • A Study of History

    Abridgement of Volumes I-VI

    Series series Royal Institute of International Affairs
    Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this magnificent enterprise, preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Coastal Demes of Attika

    A Study of the Policy of Kleisthenes

    by C.W.J. Eliot ...
    Series Book 5 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    The way in which the demes and trittyes of Attika were grouped for the formation of the Kleisthenic tribes is an important historical problem. The ten coastal demes lying between Athens and Sounion constituted the three coastal trittyes for three of the Athenian tribes, and in concentrating his study on these coastal demes Professor Eliot has not only made a substantial contribution to our ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Early Venetian Legislation on Ambassadors

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Correspondance de Pékin : 1722-1759 / Préface par Paul Demiéville

    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Préface de Paul Demiéville. Appendices du P. Joseph Dehergne ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Art and Life at the Court of Ercole I d'Este : The «De Triumphis religionis» of Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Crusading Commonplaces : La Noue, Lucinge and Rhetoric against the Turks

    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    L'Europe au XVIe siècle a vécu à l'ombre de la menace turque. A quels auteurs cette situation n'a-t-elle pas inspiré quelque chose ? La situation des Français, à cet égard, avait quelque chose d'ambigu, à cause des alliances turques de leurs rois. La Noue rêve pourtant de croisades contre les Turcs, pour unifier catholiques et huguenots, cependant que René de Lucinge, qui était allé les voir de ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Study of History

    Abridgement of Volumes VII-X

    Series series Royal Institute of International Affairs
    Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. First published in 1947 and 1957, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    Translated by S. Middlemore ...
    For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Other Greeks

    The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western

    Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies of ancient warfare and agriculture, has written a book that will completely change our view of Greek ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Neanderthal Legacy

    An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe

    The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Bowmanville

    A Small Town at the Edge

    William Humber’s Bowmanville: A Small Town at the Edge is an extraordinarily detailed, often affectionate and occasionally critical account of a modern small town on the edge of a rapidly expanding metropolitan region. The book recounts stories from the time of Charles Bowman, the potential ambition of railroads from Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay, the legacy of grand pianos found in every corner of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vikings

    by Else Roesdahl ...
    Translated by Kirsten Williams, Susan Margeson ...
    Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today'Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Euripides

    Ten Plays

    Translated by Paul Roche ...
    by Euripides ...
    A modern translation exclusive to signetFrom perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and The Cyclops. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Descriptio urbis Romae

    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    La Descriptio Urbis Romæ de Leon Battista Alberti est un court texte rédigé vraisemblablement au milieu du XVe siècle, qui décrit une méthode mise au point par l’auteur pour exécuter un plan de Rome. Ce livre présente la première édition complète du texte appuyée sur l’ensemble des manuscrits connus, accompagnée d’une traduction française et d’un commentaire. Celui-ci fait d’abord le point sur la ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Debating War and Peace

    Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era

    The First Amendment ideal of an independent press allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions; but are the media independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over the past two decades have let the government itself set the terms and boundaries of foreign policy ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

    The Conflict Between Word and Image

    Series series Compass
    This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The Great Goddess

    Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the Present

    by Jean Markale ...
    • A study of the primordial figure of the Great Goddess and her continued worship through time as shown by the myths, shrines, and sanctuaries around the world that honor this powerful symbol of creation.• A noted historian on pre-Christian societies provides an extensive worldwide listing of sites and sanctuaries associated with goddess worship.• Explores goddess worship in cultures around the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)

    by Roy Porter ...
    Series Book 0 - The Norton History of Science
    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize"A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all." —Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die**Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • L'Ecriture du Levant à la Renaissance : Enquête sur les voyageurs français dans l'empire de Soliman le Magnifique

    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance - Les Seuils de la Modernité
    L'Empire ottoman exerce une fascination sans égale sur les Occidentaux de la Renaissance. Les curiosités zoologiques, la topographie de Jérusalem ou de Constantinople, la vie quotidienne des Turcs, de leurs femmes voilées et de leur mystérieux Sultan: nombreuses sont les facettes de l'Orient représenté et construit par une littérature de voyage alors en pleine expansion. A partir d'un corpus à la ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Civilization and the Transformation of Power

    "Civilization and the Transformation of Power is an absorbing, provocative, scintillating account of the interiors of western history. Jim Garrison is one of the great visionaries of our time, and his account not only traces the rise of western culture, it points beyond it to a more integral, gracious, compassionate world, drawing on the best of East and West, feminine and masculine, to paint a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catastrophe

    An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World

    by David Keys ...
    It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought brought ancient cultures to the brink of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III

    A.D. 1185 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Series Book 3 - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    "I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all....I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes." In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus--which encompasses some thirteen ... Read more

    $14.99 USD