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Atlas of a lost world: travels in ice age America
Par Craig Childs. 2018
Thousands of years ago, sea levels were low enough that a land bridge was exposed between Asia and North America.…
But it was not the only way across. This book upends our notions of human arrival in the New World. 2018.Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans: the foundations of Western Civilization (Modern scholar)
Par Timothy Baker Shutt. 2003
Kenyon College professor, Timothy B. Shutt delivers a course that will examine the foundations of Western Civilization. Through literature that…
has survived the ages, this course will look at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, and likewise look at how these cultures interacted with each other. 2003.When Cremo's book "Forbidden Archaeology" was published in 1993, the scientific world was shocked by its extensive evidence for extreme…
human antiquity - pushing the origin of the human race back tens of millions of years. "Forbidden Archeology's Impact" documents the explosive reactions to his controversial book. 1998.How Rome fell: death of a superpower
Par Adrian Keith Goldsworthy. 2009
Describes the forces that ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire, challenging the traditional assumption that Rome was sacked by ultimately irrepressible…
foreign armies. Asserts that Rome's foes in the death throes of empire weren't any more formidable than those at its peak, but that the cutthroat nature of its political system fractured and diverted forces better spent maintaining the integrity of provincial borders - it was civil war and paranoia that destroyed the empire from within. 2009.Greek and Roman life (British Museum Paperbacks Ser.)
Par Ian Jenkins. 1986
Ghosts of Vesuvius: a new look at the last days of Pompeii, how towers fall, and other strange connections
Par Charles R Pellegrino. 2004
Weaving together accounts of ancient authorities with research by forensic archaeologists, Pellegrino captures the final hours of Pompeii and Herculaneum.…
In the flash-fossilized remains of victims, he sees reminders of the abiding human hope to understand a brutal universe. Those hopes live both in the science Pellegrino uses to interpret historic volcanic explosions as the distant consequence of the Big Bang, and in the startling connections he makes between the two cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE and the Twin Towers destroyed by terrorists in 2001. 2004.First peoples in a new world: colonizing Ice Age America
Par David J. Meltzer. 2009
Archaeologist explores the origins of the first North Americans, their migratory routes into the New World, and the ecological conditions…
they encountered. Discusses the methods used by archaeologists, geologists, linguists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists to arrive at these conclusions - which are often at odds. 2009.Fingerprints of the gods: The Evidence Of Earth's Lost Civilization
Par Graham Hancock. 1995
The author compiles compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that he argues was destroyed from human memory.…
To do this he used data from archaeology, astronomy, geology and computer analysis of ancient myths. 1995.Egypt before the pharaohs: the prehistoric foundations of Egyptian civilization
Par Michael A Hoffman. 1979
Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero
Par James S Romm. 2014
Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the…
brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero. 2014.Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations
Par E. C Krupp. 1983
Deep water, ancient ships: the treasure vault of the Mediterranean
Par Willard Bascom. 1976
Classical mythology: the Romans (The modern scholar)
Par Peter Meineck. 2005
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck examines, in detail, the way in which military power, colonial organization,…
superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system helped to make Rome such a successful empire. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology. 2005.Bones: discovering the first Americans
Par Elaine Dewar. 2001
With Native American activists, white supremacists, DNA experts, and anthropologists all vying for control of ancient remains, Dewar explores the…
ambiguous terrain left behind when a long-standing paradigm is swept away by new discoveries. Presents stories that rarely find their way into scientific journals or newspapers - stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamans, and the shadows that fall on the lives of scientists who've pulled them from the ground. 2001.Bones of contention: controversies in the search for human origins
Par Roger Lewin. 1987
By focusing on several landmark fossil discoveries, the author reveals how the interpretation of data is heavily dependent upon an…
anthropologist's cultural and personal biases, emotions, pre-conceptions, and professional loyalties. 1987.Ascent to civilization: the archaeology of early man
Par John Gowlett. 1984
Ancient people of the Arctic
Par Robert McGhee. 1996
McGhee, a curator of archeology with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, traces the lives of the Palaeo-Eskimos, who entered the…
northern extremes of the North American continent four thousand years ago. McGhee reconstructs what their life was like, explains how they dealt with sharp climate changes, and speculates on their eventual demise. 1996.A universal history of the destruction of books: from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq
Par Fernando Báez, Alfred J Mac Adam. 2008
Beginning with ancient Mesopotamia, Báez considers the wide-ranging reasons why books are destroyed: the desire of conquerors to eradicate their…
predecessors or foreign cultures, religious intolerance, fire and other natural or man-made disasters. Other books were lost because they were no longer considered important, and we know of them only through references in other works. Includes a chapter on fictional book destroyers, from Don Quixote to Fahrenheit 451. Some descriptions of violence. c2008. Uniform title: Historia universal de la destrucción de libros.Offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC…
to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. 2010.A history of ancient Greece (The modern scholar)
Par Eric H Cline. 2007
George Washington University professor, Erich H. Cline, delves into the history of Ancient Greece, frequently considered to be the founding…
nation of democracy in Western civilization. From the Minoans to the Mycenaeans to the Trojan War and the first Olympics, the history of this civilization abounds with momentous events and cultural landmarks that resonate through the millennia. 2007.