How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
By: Mary Beard
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western i…
Want to Read $ 12.94"One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be uncivilised, with those who do not -or cannot be trusted to - share our values. Civilisation is a process of exclusion as well as inclusion. The boundary between 'us' and 'them' may be an internal one (for much of world history the idea of a 'civilised woman' has been a contradiction in terms), or an external one, as the word 'barbarian' suggests; it was originally a derogatory and ethnocentric ancient Greek term for foreigners you could not understand, because they spoke in an incomprehensible babble: 'bar-bar-bar ...' The inconvenient truth, of course, is that so-called 'barbarians' may be no more than those with a different view from ourselves of what it is to be civilised, and of what matters in human culture. In the end, one person's barbarity is another person's civilisation."-Mary Beard, How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
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1. American Primitive
By: Mary Oliver
4.39
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive … read more
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"there's a sickness worse than the risk of death and that's forgetting what we should never forget."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"Fear defeated me. And yet, not in faith and not in madness but with the courage I thought my dream deserved, I stepped outside."-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"The sky, after all, stops at nothing, so something has to be holding our bodies in its rich and timeless stables or else we would fly away"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it…"-Mary Oliver, American Primitive
2. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- ancient history
3. The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile
By: Jerry Toner
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics This introduction to the ancient world, part of… read more
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4. Francis Bacon: 1909-1992
By: Francis Bacon , Luigi Ficacci
4.12
Format: None pages,
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figu… read more
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- art
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5. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
By: Bettany Hughes
3.87
Format: 160 pages,
An erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy--a chronicle combining historical inquiry & st… read more
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6. The Iliad of Homer (The Great Courses, #301)
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Audio CD
When John Keats first read Chapman's translation of the epics of "deep-brow'd Homer," he was so ove… read more
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7. Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Años de formación (Los diarios de Emilio Renzi, #1)
By: Ricardo Piglia
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
"When young Ricardo Piglia wrote the first pages of his diaries, which he would work on until the l… read more
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8. The Odyssey of Homer (Great Courses, #302)
By: Elizabeth Vandiver
4.04
Format: None pages,
Keats compared discovering Homer to "finding a new planet." What is it in Homer's great works--and … read more
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9. Ernst: Beyond Painting
By: Ulrich Bischoff
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Max Ernst (1891-1996) is one of the most important figures of Dadaism and Surrealism. As a student … read more
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10. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
By: Lucy Worsley
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And… read more
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11. His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Owen Dudley Edwards
3.43
Format: 232 pages, cloth
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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12. Homeric Hymns
By: Homer , Jules Cashford , None
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddess… read more
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13. Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire
By: Simon Baker
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and … read more
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14. The Book of Imaginary Beings
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Peter Sís , Andrew Hurley , Margarita Guerrero
0.00
Format: 400 pages,
Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be not only the greatest living writer in the Spanis… read more
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15. The Source (Necroscope, #3)
By: Brian Lumley
4.15
Format: 505 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Va… read more
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16. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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17. The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
By: Tom Holland
3.85
Format: 522 pages, Kindle Edition
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys... there's a new history book in town. Fro… read more
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18. How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
By: Mary Beard
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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- archaeology
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"One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be uncivilised, with those who do not -o…"-Mary Beard, How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
19. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
By: Orlando Whitfield
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more
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20. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By: Richard Thompson Ford
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more
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21. Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” ( New York … read more
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"Violence does not need to be used very often; it merely needs to be convincing when it is used."-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
"Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake."-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
"Retributive anger—what I would call blind rage or humiliated fury—is what people feel when they are alone and abandoned to their fates. The wish to retaliate is born of isolation and helplessness."-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
"In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal…"-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
22. Cold
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more
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23. Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
By: Philip Matyszak
4.02
Format: 208 pages, ebook
In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit a… read more
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24. Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
By: Helen Morales
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what the… read more
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"The women of Juarez, and women across the world, do not want to have to take revenge, any more than Procne and Philomela did. What they want is to be able to rely on the modern gods -- the police, th…"-Helen Morales, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
25. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
26. Emocionarte
By: Carlos del Amor
4.11
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
Con un estilo literario y profundamente divulgativo, seductor y personal, Carlos del Amor nos ofrec… read more
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27. The Athenian Murders
By: V.J. Randle
3.90
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
Detectives in Greece struggle to solve multiple murders—and confront a shadowy group claiming that … read more
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28. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
29. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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30. En busca de las entrañas del hielo
By: Juan Francisco Lecaros
4.56
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Una narración trepidante de las exploraciones a la Antártica durante el siglo XX. Frío glacial. Me… read more
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